Nearly every gardener has some type of gardening equipment.  In fact, it’s nearly impossible to have a garden, without used gardening equipment.  What kind of gardening equipment you use, will obviously depend on the size and extent of your garden, what you are able to handle, if you want to spend a lot of time in your garden, or get done quickly and finally, how much money you are willing to spend.

While many gardeners do not have expensive, or high-tech gardening tools, all of them have some type of gardening equipment, for cultivating.  Tools for cultivating, can include both hand held tools and power tools.  The type you buy, depends on how keen you are.  Hand tools include  everyday items like shovels, spades, forks, rakes, trowels, hoes, weeders and shears.  These can all be used to get a garden ready for planting and are relatively easy to use and do not require much strength. Other tools include a wheel cultivator, pickaxe and mattock.

While power tools are a little more expensive, than hand tools, they really cut down on the hard labour. The most essential piece of gardening equipment is undoubtedly, the tiller.  The tiller will break up the ground and get it ready for planting, chop up any debris and help to mix in fertilizer and compost.  If you don’t want to spend the money on a tiller, you can hire someone, or rent a tiller for one time use.  Other power tools that are very popular, include chippers, garden shredders and chain-saws.

If you have shrubs, hedges, or small trees in your yard, pruning tools are a vital piece of gardening equipment.  Pruning shears, are good for branches about ¾” in diameter, while lopping shears can handle branches from a half inch, up to about 2 inches thick.  Pole pruners, are shears on a pole and can reach branches about 15 feet above ground.  Hedge shears and pruning saws are both larger, more heavy duty pruning tools, for the serious gardener.

Since your plants must be watered, in order to survive and lets face it, it doesn’t rain whenever we want it to, gardening equipment for watering, is a must. The one thing you can’t get along without, is a water hosepipe, everything else is optional.  Many gardeners use sprinklers, or a drip irrigation hose.  There are even timers you can purchase, for sprinklers, or drip hoses, if you are willing to spend the extra cash. 

Gardening without gardening equipment, would be a nightmare.  Sure, there are some people who enjoy getting a little dirty, while they plant their flowers, but even that type of people, has the most basic of gardening tools, like a rake, or a hoe.  Gardening equipment is an essential part of gardening, just as important as the dirt and the seeds.

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