Essential tools for gardening

The essential tools you need will depend on how big an area of garden you have and what you are going to do in your garden.

If you are gardening on a patio or balcony in pots you will need:

• Trowel (small spade)
• Short handled fork
• Secateurs ( for cutting flowers and dead stems)
• Gardener’s ties ( for tying long stems to stakes or railings to prevent wind damage)
• Scissors
• Watering can

In a larger garden you will also need:

• Spade
• Long handled fork
• Hoe
• Rake
• Leaf rake (for cleaning up piles of weeds and dead leaves)
• Large plastic bags or bins for carrying weeds to recycling receptacle
• Hose and nozzles and/or sprinklers for watering

Option extras include

• Wheelbarrow
• Hose reel
• Loppers (for trimming small branches on trees)

Making compost

Compost is made from a collection of organic material that breaks down into rich earthy fertiliser that your garden plants will love. Read more

Coffee grounds and garden growth

For lush green growth in the garden, tip your used coffee grounds around your plants.

No dig vegetable garden

A “no-dig’ vegetable garden is developed by raising the level of the soil above ground level so you get a good depth of soil without digging down below the lawn or other such surface.

You can create a no-dig garden Read more

Tie up your plants

 

Cut strips from old pantyhose to use as plant ties in the garden. Tie firmly but not too tightly and the plant stems will not get damaged by the ties.

 

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