Before starting your garden activities at home, it is imperative that you provide yourself with the necessary tools and equipment in your nursery. These tools and equipment should be available at all times to make your landscaping jobs easy and convenient.

You can work peacefully and efficiently if you have complete tools and equipment in your nursery. You wouldn’t worry about where to borrow because you have a full set of them always on hand when eventualities arise.

You don’t need a large amount to start collecting your tools and equipment. You can visit some farm shops for garden tools and buy inexpensive ones at a bargain price, especially during yard sales. As a gardener, you must follow this motto “Use the right tool for the right job” for your landscaping job to be successful.

Some basic tools and equipment

• Shovels: A round-tipped shovel should be preferred for digging, especially for planting smaller trees and shrubs.

• Garden Hoes – A garden hoe is useful for weeding and cultivating soil surfaces to allow deeper penetration of nutrients and water into plant roots.

• Bow Rake – Provide a heavy duty bow rake, having short tines on one side attached to a metal frame or ‘bow’. This tool is vital for leveling the soil and getting it ready for planting, or for removing large clods of dirt or rocks from the ground.

• Shovel forks: the shovel fork is necessary to open and improve the soil. It looks like a fork but has a shorter handle and wider tines. It is used for digging in hard ground and breaking up the ground.

• Dull Bolo: this tool is common in the Philippines, its use is similar to that of a garden that is used for weeding and cultivating.

• Sharp bolus: a sharp bolus is used to cut some grasses and small branches or, in general, for cleaning operations before cultivating the soil.

• Garden shears: select a pair of garden shears that fits comfortably in your hand. Scissors, sometimes called pruning shears, are used for pruning, shaping, and removing foliage or branches.

• Garden hose: the hose is necessary to water your garden. Depending on the amount of water, a sprinkler is also a good addition to your garden watering equipment list.

• Spray can: essential for watering plants. The long nozzles allow the water to flow out at a very smooth flow and are useful for reaching great distances. Select a shower head that has a detachable spray head; This type of watering can is perfect for watering young seedlings.

• Hand Sprayer – Hand Sprayer is useful for spraying some minor insect pests that are easily managed for minor insect attacks in the garden.

• Shovel – Similar to shovel, but has a square end used for digging and making plots and straight beds.

• Carts and wheelbarrows – Needed to transfer some garden tools and equipment used in your gardening work. Some other uses for carts and wheelbarrows are to collect and remove fully grown vegetables from your garden and to carry dirt and grass clippings out of the garden. • Garden Pruner – When you want to shape and cut longer plants, you will use the garden pruner tool. Clippers come in two styles. One is the bypass style and the other is the anvil. Pick a couple of varieties to see which style is best for you. Mowers that have interchangeable blades and sharpened parts will help extend the life of this garden equipment.

• Garden trowel – A garden trowel is also used for weeding and cultivating. Select the one with a steel blade to last longer in use. There are different types of handles to choose from. You can select the one with rubber handles that make them easier to grip while wearing and there are some that are designed to take the strain off your wrist during use.

There is still some equipment to purchase from your landscaping operations, but these tools and equipment listed are the basics you should buy. If you already have your largest capital, Roto-tiller or Tractor is also important in your garden. In the meantime, you are satisfied with the identified basic gardening tools and equipment, you are ready to begin your garden operations. Happy gardening!