Numerous lists of gardening tools can be found online, focusing on a particular year, task, or even must-have tools. However, all the lists we looked at didn’t seem to have one that was comprehensive so we decided to create one ourselves.
In this compilation, we included every possible tool that one might need or want. Should we happen to omit any, we would kindly ask you to inform us in the comments section below this article so we can revise the list to include it. Thus, apart from potting soil, containers, and indoor growing equipment which deserves a list of its own, seeds and plants, here is the most comprehensive list of gardening tools you can get your hands on:
Apex Shed
Apart from being a garden workspace, apex sheds serve the dual purpose of storing gardening equipment and protecting them from the elements. Often made of wood, these are spacious covered outdoor work areas for more extensive gardening tasks.
Auger
An auger is an example of a hand tool. It is a drilling device or drill bit that resembles a large screw, and it is used for making holes in the ground to be planted with seeds or saplings.
Backpack Sprayer
A backpack sprayer or knapsack sprayer is a type of spraying equipment with a tank worn as a backpack, equipped with a power source, line, and sprayer nozzle. It is used in gardening to apply insecticides and pesticides onto plants.
Border Spade
A border spade is a gardening tool characterized by a flat, thin, rectangular blade that is designed for digging in narrow spaces, for example, between rows of healthy and flourishing plants. As a compact tool, border spades are handy for tasks such as relocating perennial plants.
Bow Rake
The bow rake is a flat rake with a bow-shaped metal frame which connects the rake’s teeth to the handle. Other garden rakes designed for lighter materials cannot be used for raking heavy substances. Because the bow rake can take a lot of punishment, it is perfect for raking stray rocks from gravel paths.
Bow Saw
As its name suggests, the bow saw is composed of a C-shaped frame with a blade in the form of a toothed sword which helps the saw cut through thick branches and prune large bushes. It has a twisted cord that runs alongside the blade which can either increase or reduce the tension in the blade.
Border Fork
Also called ladies’ fork, a border fork is a smaller version of a garden fork. It has a full-sized handle, but the tines are shorter, closer-spaced, and thinner. It is used for light weeding with other plants.
Border Spade
A border spade is designed for digging out landscape borders in a flowerbed. It is smaller than a regular spade and has a flat blade which allows it to efficiently cut down into the soil.
Broadcast Sprayer
For most home gardeners, a broadcast sprayer will be an overkill. Constructed out of industrial-grade materials, a broadcast sprayer is used for spraying insecticides and pesticides, allowing it to cover a large area in record time.
Broadfork
To enhance aeration and drainage, the broadfork (or U-fork and grelinette) is adept at loosening compacted soil. It is made of five metal tines, each roughly eight inches long, set a few inches apart along a horizontal bar. It also has two handles which, when gripping it, reach to chest or shoulder height in a U shape.
By stepping on the crossbar and applying weight, the user can drive the tines into the soil. After taking a few steps backwards, the user pulls the handles, allowing the tines to lift through the soil while maintaining intact layers, thus preserving the topsoil structure. Broadforks are suited for gardens or plots not exceeding two acres. For larger areas, a similar implement mounted on a tractor or chisel-plow is used.
Budding Knife
As its name suggests, a budding knife is intended to carry out budding and grafting techniques using a single eye or bud. It is small in size.
Bulb Planter
A herbaceous gardening implement where the user can plant screws. It allows for the soil that is dug to be covered as well. There are certain types, such as long-handled ones, which allow the users to stand straight when planting.
Compost Bin
A device which made for containing organic matter with the intention of decaying the matter overtime until it forms compost.
Compost Fork
A compost fork is designed specifically for the loosening, turning, aerating, moving, and transplanting of compost or manure in addition to other organic bulk materials like mulches.
Core Aerator
These devices are also known as lawn aerators and focus on the aeration of soil. With a core aerator the earth is penetrated by hollow spikes which reduce compaction by removing small plugs of soil.
Drum Aerators
Drum aerators are designed to aerate the soil and penetrates the earth with large spikes attached to a tine wheel. This method is usually used for large scale soil aeration.
Edging Shears
The focus of edging shears is to assist in cutting the grass bordering pathways or within walkways in a precise manner to maintain neatness. The user can trim the grass while standing because the shears are mounted on long handles.
Electric Edger
An electric edger is a tool used in gardening care by landscapers to establish a clean edge between the grass and other surfaces, more often than not, concrete like sidewalks or curbs.
Flat Rake
Flat rakes, also referred to as level head rakes, are flat headed tools with rectangular heads made up of 10 to 16 connected teeth with a long handle. The back head is flat for leveling, but is primarily used for clearing debris and breaking down clumpy soil. They are also quite useful for spreading fertilizer or compost.
Garden Fork
A garden fork or spading fork is a handheld gardening tool with a long handle and short highly durable tines at the end. These tines are usually four in number, and are helpful in lifting soil, loosening it, and turning it over.
Garden Hoe
Another line of hand tool for gardening is the garden hoe. It is used to shape soil, remove soil, weed garden beds, or even harvest certain root crops. It has a square blade which is small, and a long handle.
Garden Shovel
A garden shovel is a tool for digging, lifting, and moving soil in a garden. The shovels used for digging can be round, pointed or flat as needed. The most common type of shovel used is the one with a rounded edge with a pointed tip designed to scoop out a good amount of soil.
Garden Tool Shed
Sheds serve as an essential and strategic component for any dedicated garden. Usually constructed from wood, a garden tool shed is smaller than an average shed and is dedicated to only storing garden tools such as equipment and utensils. This type of shed is designed as a box or tower without any windows, ensuring that the contents are well concealed.
Gas Powered Lawn Edger
A gas edger is a type of power equipment that operates like a lawn mower, it is used for trimming edges into the lawn. It creates sharp edges between the lawn and pavements, concrete or asphalt surfaces.
Gloves
Gardening gloves are an important part of any serious garden. It helps to protect the hands during yard work as well as doing garden work. The gloves shield the hands from prickles, sharp, and caustic substances, minor bites, and other sharp material.
Hand Cultivator
A hand cultivator is designed to remove weeds and break up the soil that is planned for planting. In small flower or vegetable gardens, it can also assist in digging the planting rows.
Handheld Sprayer
Handheld sprayers used for lawns and gardens are effective when liquid fertilizers and pesticides need application in home landscapes.
Hand Seeder
A hand seeder is a single row manual seeder developed by field engineers for even planting of small vegetable and flower seeds in rows.
Hedge Shears
Hedge shears cut woody material up to one half inch thick with large scissor-like blades ranging from 12 to 28 inches in length. Their handles can be wooden, metal, or rubber grip. Blades can be straight, curved, serrated, or wavy.
Hoe
A hoe is a gardening tool that has a thin metal blade and is often used to break dirt or soil clumps and is helpful for weeding a garden bed.
Kneeler
A garden kneeler is an apparatus designed to alleviate sore knees and back pain associated with kneeling and bending during gardening activities. With a garden kneeler, a gardener can kneel comfortably supported on a cushion, keeping garments protected from dirt and grass stains.
Lawn Mower
A lawn mower is a garden tool that operates mechanically to trim grass on lawns.
Leaf Blower
A leaf blower, also referred to as a blower, is a tool used for gardening purposes that emits air at high velocity through a nozzle to displace lightweight debris such as leaves and cut grass. Leaf blowers are fitted with electric or gasoline motors.
Leaf Rake
A leaf rake is a lightweight fan-shaped rake with flat, springy tines that radiate outward. Its design enables the gathering and collection of leaves while minimizing disturbance to the soil beneath.
Machete
A machete is a long-bladed cutting tool that can be used for cutting plants and vines to clear ways. It can also be used to open coconuts and cut small trees. The back side of a machete is often edged for sawing wood.
Manual Edger
A manual edger refers to a non-motorized lawn mower which is used to create precise edges between the lawn and paved, concrete or asphalted areas.
Pick Mattock
A pick mattock has a blade which its head can be split into two sections; one end has a point and the other has a transverse blade.
Pitchfork
Also known s a garden fork, a pitchfork is designed with a long handle and two to three tines with the purpose to lift and throw loose materials such as straw, hay, or leaves.
Planting Dibble
This gardening tool “Planting dibble” is used to create holes into the clay and mud soil, particularly for bulbs and seedlings by applying pointed pressure.
Pointed Shovel
This shovel has a pointed tip and is considered a digging shovel. Its best use is for gentler soils that have already been softened or tilled. On the other hand, sharply square tipped flat blades are better suited for stubborn, hardened soils that require blunt force to break through.
Pole Pruner
Pruners, as a form of garden equipment, are utilized for trimming plants and small branches like roses and grapevines. For stems thicker than a pencil, loppers or saws are more appropriate. A pole pruner is to pruners as a pair of extended reach sticks are to pruners.
Post Hole Pincer
A post hole digger is a tool in gardening which is specialized in digging narrow holes for the installation of posts such as for fences or signs. A post hole pincer functions by being stabbed into the ground in its open position until the blades are fully submerged. Once the blades are submerged, pulling the handles apart closes the tool and results in the tool capturing the soil that has been loosened.
Potato Fork
A potato fork is an agricultural implement with a hand cultivator form and it is designed with several curved tines specifically for excavating potatoes.
Potting Shed
Potting sheds are tailored for potting plants and storing gardening tools and equipment. They are large wooden structures with a shelving space beneath a sizable window on one side.
Potting sheds can also serve as greenhouses. The windows enhance the growth of freshly potted seedlings by providing natural light. In addition, potting sheds warm and shelter plants during the winter months, thus protecting them from harsh cold weather.
Powered Chainsaw
A powered chainsaw is a type of saw used for felling trees, limbing, bucking, pruning, and firewood harvesting. It is a portable electric or gasoline powered saw with a cutting chain with teeth that rotates around a guide bar.
Powered Edger (String Trimmer / Weed Eater)
A powered edger or string trimmer is a garden power tool that cuts grass using a nylon line that rotates rapidly. Powered edgers are also used to trim and shape bushes and hedges.
Pruning Knife
A pruning knife is a type of small billhook that is used to cut small branches or for any activity that requires light cutting.
Pruning Saw
A pruning saw is a gardening tool which is sharpened similarly to lumber saws. However, pruning saws are specially designed for trimming live shrubs and trees. There are numerous types of pruning saws, each designed for different sizes of branches or stems.
Pruning Shears
Pruning shears or hand pruners as they are popularly known are scissors designed exclusively for use on plants. They can prune hard woody branches of trees and shrubs, often to two centimeters thick. Both bypass pruners and anvil pruners are available.
Rake
This is a tool, short or long handled, with grass, debris or soil tines of some sort at the end meant for collecting or loosening the previously mentioned materials.
Rotary Tiller
A rotary tiller is an example of a gardening equipment that has a set of curved tines mounted on a shaft that spins and is connected to a tractor’s PTO, allowing it to dig into the garden soil and turning it into a fine seedbed. It is mostly used during spring before the planting season to prepare your garden beds for the next growing season.
Round Point Shovel
Round point shovel is a type of gardening tool that is a little more specialized shaped like a shovel with a curving round end to a point. The sides of the Round point head are slightly sharp and the end curving to a round point which helps slice readily into the dirt.
Scoop Shovel
Scoop shovels are tools categorized as spoons or as spades. They are composed of handles and blades that have a broad, hand-size section designed for digging material which includes dirt and snow.
Scuffle Hoe
This type of hoe is a scuffle hoe; it is a garden hoe with both edges sharpened to be pushed forward or drawn backward.
Scythe
The scythe is an older agricultural implement used for cutting grass, reeds, or grains by hand. It consists of a long curved blade which is usually made of steel and very sharp to cut grass with a sweep.
Along with the blade, a scythe has a long wooden or light metal handle, the snath, which is shaped to allow for a comfortable two-handed grip. The snath may have one or two adjustable handles termed grips or nibs which enable the user to stand straight while mowing or harvesting.
Seeder Row Planter
This is a garden aid designed to drop individual seeds at particular intervals as it moves along. As each planter moves along rows, it opens the soil to a pre-determined depth, places the seed, and then closes the soil on the seed while pressing some loose soil onto the seed.
Shredder
The garden shredders or chippers are devices used to reduce the volume of other wastes by shredding them into small pieces. This leads to easy disposal or even composting.
Soil Scoop
The soil scoop is a versatile digging tool that has a deep, rounded, bowl-shaped head with a sharp tip and serrated edges. This handi gardening tool works well for removing rocks from soil, suckering and bulb removal, weeding and tight area excavation.
Spading Fork
See Garden Fork
Spike Aerator
See core aerator
Spiked Aerating Shoes
These spiked shoes are an effortless way to revitalize hard-compacted garden soils and improve drainage.
Spreader
Also referred to as a broadcast seeder, broadcaster, or centrifugal fertilizer, this agricultural implement is used for broadcasting seeds, lime, fertilizer, sand, ice melt, etc.
Sprinkler
This gardening equipment irrigates grass and plants by spraying water in streams, automated by a set timer. When your flowers droop, or your lawn is under-watered, a small lawn sprinkler can be attached to a yard hose for watering.
Square Point Shovel
A square point shovel is a gardening tool adept at scooping and transporting loose garden materials like sand, topsoil, or debris. Additionally, it can be utilized for shaping beds, mixing concrete, scraping stubborn materials from surfaces, and leveling over flattened areas.
Step Edger
A step edger is a tool that halves into a moon structure with a long handle. It is used to define the edges of lawns garden areas.
String Trimmer
See Powered Edger (String Trimmer)
Trailer Sprayer
A trailer sprayer Is used primarily in large scale agriculture. It’s a large mounted trailer that works with fungicides, insecticides, herbicides and other large-scale agricultural chemicals.
Transplant Spade
A shovel like tool, a transplant spade is designed to assist in moving large plants. It has a long handle and slender, long, consistent blade a with gentle taper towards the end of the blade.
Trench Shovel
A trench shovel (or clean out shovel) is a long narrow blade with a sharper curve from the middle to towards the end with a scoop designed for cleaning and defining trenches.
Tree Pruner
A tree pruner (or lopper) is a long-handled grooming saw with a curved blade and sometimes a clipper designed to prune small trees.
Trowel
A hand trowel is a garden tool with a flat base and a semi-circular scoop that is small, handheld and meant for lifting of plants or earth. Garden trowels serve the purpose of excavating, applying, smearing, and transferring small quantities of soil.
Twist Tiller
A twist tiller is a peculiar looking gardening tool that both tills soil and removes weeds with a solitary twisting motion. The tool has twisted lines, a cross bar to step on which aid hard soil penetration, and a long cushioned handlebar for ease and comfort.
Warren Hoe
Warren hoe, also called a ridging hoe or drill hoe, is a type of triangular or heart shaped hoe meant for digging narrow furrows or shallow trenches for bulb or seed planting.
Water Hose
Water hose or garden hose is a type of flexible tube, which is often fitted with a sprayer or a sprinkler head for the purposes of concentrating or dispersing water.
Watering Can
It is a container with a long spout and a perforated top that can be used to easily water the plants.
Weeder
A weeder is a simple garden tool that has been developed to assist in the elimination of weeds in the garden and the lawn.
Wheelbarrow
A wheelbarrow is a small cart that has a single wheel in the front with two support legs and two handles at the back designed for carrying soils, sands, gravels and other materials.
Wheel Edger
A wheel edger is a manual tool used by landscapers to create a sharp edge along the boundary of a lawn and an asphalted or other surface.
Common Questions and Answers About Gardening Tools
Can you edge with a shovel?
Grass can be edged with a shovel. Mark the edges of your lawn with spray paint or garden hose. If you need a stricter measurement, you can drive two stakes into the corners of the lawn and tie a string between them just above the ground.
Make a cut along the line you drew that is four to six inches deep. The best option is an edging shovel because it will make the cleanest cut, although you can also use a digging shovel, flat shovel, or garden spade. Prune the edge roots of the grass so that you can slice the sod.
Then, with your shovel, lift the grass loose and place it in a wheelbarrow. In addition to the scratched area where sod is removed needs a final touch up of grass and dirt. About every two weeks during the growing season, maintenance needs to be done to the edge to control the spread of grass in the bare soil area.
Do you edge before or after mowing?
Professionals seem to have differing views on whether edging is done before or after mowing. Most agree that the landscaping process takes roughly the same amount of time regardless of the order of operations.
However, there is some advantage to performing edging after mowing, as it prevents the work done on edging from being damaged by the mower.
How big is a shovel?
When it comes to purchasing a shovel, it is essential to keep in mind that different lengths are designed for different heights. The standard length for a shovel shaft is 28 inches, which makes the overall length, including the handle and blade, 48 inches.
For a person with a height between five feet five inches and five feet nine inches, the blade size and shaft length would match. Individuals taller than five feet nine inches will require shovels with a shaft longer than 32 inches. Meanwhile, individuals shorter than five feet five inches will need a 26 inch or shorter shaft.
Assessing whether a shovel is the appropriate size for you can be done with a simple technique. Stand the shovel up on its end and balance it on the tip of the blade. If the top of the into the handle grip aligns with your lower chest, then the shovel is correctly sized.
Using a shovel that is too short requires you to stoop over like it’s an elbow will make work will incur back pain discomfort, which avoids the inconvenience of a shovel that is too short.
How deep should garden edging be?
For the edging garden area, ensure that the sections cut are approximately four to six inches wide alongside a six-inch depth. Moreover, if you plan on installing flagstones or concrete pavers at the edges, make sure to extend the cuts to at least six inches in depth and width to accommodate to the size of the specific stones.
How do you keep a pick mattock?
Maintaining your pick mattock is straightforward. You can either sharpen the adze and axe edges using a grinder, hand file, or rotary tool. Ensure you remove all burrs, sharp fragments, or chips around the blade edges. The sharper the axe edge is compared to the adze edge, the better.
If the mattock head is loose and it has a wooden handle, soak the handle in water for around thirty minutes. This method works on tools with wooden handles only, and then only for about thirty minutes. The soaking technique provides sufficient time to complete your work until a permanent repair is possible.
If the wooden handle is splintered, you can sand it to restore the shape. If the handle separates, the mattock is no longer usable. A mattock is rendered useless and needs to be replaced if the handle is split, cracked, or broken, or if either axe or adze end is bent. Good maintenance of a mattock enables it to last several years of work.
How often should I edge my lawn?
Most people usually edge their lawns around the end of June, once the peak growing season is over, which is roughly on average once a year. For the perfectionists out there, you may edge twice a year: once in early June before growth is maximal and again in late August after the peak season growth has subsided.
How old is the shovel?
Shovels, along with other basic gardening tools, have existed since ancient times. Archaeological work from the neolithic age dating between 10,000 B.C. and 3,000 B.C. suggests that early gardeners had some form of shovel made from oxen shoulder blades, which were used to dig, move rocks and soil, and fetch food.
Even before the middle ages started, Cherokee Indians were already creating primitive versions of modern day shovels by attaching large animal shoulder blades or pelvic bones to three or four foot long sticks using deer ligaments or leather.
How long is a shovel handle?
Different lengths of shovel handles are available in the market which means that people must be careful to buy the right length if they want operating in the garden to be as comfortable as possible. A person who is between 5’5” – 5’9” can use a shovel with a blade and shaft length of 28 inches, considering the size of the blade.
The shaft length of the shovel is also referred to as the standard length. For most individuals, farm use recommended Shovels these days are 48 inches long with additional blade and shaft component. Individuals taller than 5’9” require a shovel designed with at least a 32 inches blade. Further, people shorter than 5’5” should use a shovel with a shaft less than 26 inches.
What are the basic tools for gardening?
To ensure proper protection, a digging tool such as spade, trowel or fork, cutting tool like pruners and hand gloves are essentials for beginners. Looking to expand your skill set? Thinking outside the box a pair of gloves for basic hand protection for gardening, there are additional tools we likely need for deeper exploration.
- Arm protectors
- Clearing tools
- Cobrahead weeding tool
- Digging fork
- Digging shovel
- Edging spade
- Garden hose with multi-pattern sprayers
- Garden rake
- Gardening apron
- Gardening journal
- Heavy-duty leather gloves
- Hoe
- Hori hori digging tool
- Latex-coated cotton gloves
- Leaf rake
- Loppers
- Pruners
- Pruning saw
- Scissors
- Shears
- Trowel
- Weeder
- Wheelbarrow
- Washable synthetic gloves
What can I use for garden edging?
An edging shovel is the most efficient tool for garden edging, however, if you do not have one, you can still use a digging shovel, flat shovel, or even a garden spade.
What does a garden spade look like?
A spade is equipped with a straight handle that is about four feet long and has a flat rectangular blade attached to the end. The blade can be made out of carbon, hammered steel, or stainless steel. The garden spade’s handle can be U-shaped or T shaped, and the garden spade itself is often made of hardwood with non-slip rubber coated surfaces.
What is a cutter mattock used for?
Gardeners utilize the vertical blade of a cutter mattock, known as the axe end, to chop through roots within the soil. The horizontal adze end of the cutter mattock is used by gardeners to move soil and earth, such as in the case of digging trenches.
A pick mattock has a pick that breaks up stones as well as rocks and hard soil. Claw mattocks have a claw that is used to dig up weeds as well as cultivate the soil.
What is a fishtail weeder?
A fishtail weeder, also called an asparagus knife, is a tool with a long shaft. This makes it possible for gardeners to work far and deep into the soil. The blade of a fishtail weeder is sharp, and looks like an upright V, or a fish tail.
It is used for removing roots that are entrenched within the soil or carving out stubborn weeds. To make the process of weeding easier, some fishtail weeders are designed ergononomically or with fulcrums.
What is a flat shovel called?
Flat shovels are commonly known as spades; however, some types of digging shovels also have flat blades.
What is a garden pick used for?
A garden pick is suitable for various activities like digging trenches, breaking hard soils, and cleaning ditches.
What is a garden spade best for?
Garden spades are one of the most used tools in a gardener’s kit. A garden spade is very useful for contouring, cultivating, terracing, and drainage work. While the tool is not meant for heavy earth moving, it is very useful for light earth moving like sod cutting, bed reshaping and preparation, amendment mixing, and hole digging for planting. Specialized garden spades designed for transplanting or border making are also available.
What is a grub axe?
Grub axe is a name often used interchangeably with the term mattock. A grub axe is a hand tool used by gardeners to clear ground or dig up roots and shrubs. It has two blades; one is the axe blade, vertically positioned and used to chop through roots lying deep in the ground, and the second is the adze blade which is the large horizontal end used to dig trenches or move soil.
What is a grub hoe?
A grub hoe, or azada, is a gardening implement used for digging and tilling soil. It is used for light to moderate tasks such as trenching, root piece removal, weeding, rock relocation, and sod cutting. Grub hoes are available with blades of many different shapes and widths.
What is an Irish shovel?
The Irish shovel is best suited for dense, heavy soils that are difficult to work within for cultivation. It features an elongated blade that has a pointed tip which flares out at the shoulder. The blade is 10 to 14 inches long and the shaft is a lengthy 48 to 72 inches.
What is a scoop shovel?
A scoop shovel is also referred to as a trowel or soil scoop. It is a hand tool with a pointed and curved scoop blade resembling a long narrow shovel. The scoop shovels are mainly used for digging holes to plant seedlings or in the garden.
Larger scoop shovels possess a broad flat blade that is bordered with raised sides to facilitate the gathering of piles of earth or any material that the gardeners are moving. These large scoop shovels may also be used to transport large quantities of other materials like grain, feed, or manure.
What is a sharpshooter shovel?
A sharpshooter shovel possesses a long slender blade and is capable of cutting deep holes with small diameters in soft soil and sometimes even in hard, rocky soil. Tile or transplanting spades are alternative names for sharpshooter shovels.
While their main purpose is for digging, these shovels can also aid in the relocation of small amounts of soil, as is the case with soil from holes and trenches. The blade’s tip, narrow and round, makes it easier to penetrate tough layers of dirt or rock.
A sharpshooter shovel is often used to create holes for transplanting and planting shrubs or saplings and digging narrow trenches for drainage or utility lines.
What is a shovel used for?
Shovels serve the purpose of digging into the ground and transporting loose and granular materials such as earth, gravel, grains, and even snow from one area to another. While a shovel comprises a handle and shaft with a wide flat blade, each type and design of shovel will have varying shapes and sizes of blades based on the intended purpose of the shovel.
What is a skinny shovel called?
Thin shovel types are trench shovels, tree planting shovels, root shovels, drain spades, Dixter trowels, and even some planting trowels.
What is a small shovel?
In gardening, small shovels are referred to as trowels.
What is a spade for gardening?
Shovels and spades share a common shape; however, a spade is a flattened, shorter version of a shovel. Unlike shovels, spades have flat blades, and They are used for digging trenches, cutting sod, and edging grass.
What is a tile shovel?
Tile spades or sharpshooter spades are designed to create deep narrow holes with small diameters. They have long, narrow blades. Tile spades are beneficial in hard dirt, rocky soil, or sod.
They are often used to plant saplings or shrubs as well as digging trenches for drainage or utility lines. While tile shovels are primarily designed to excavate, they can also be utilized to displace a small amount of dirt, like when soils are lifted from a hole.
What is a trenching shovel?
As with many tools, a trenching shovel is used to perform a specific task. It can be best described as having a long, thin blade which is sharpened on both sides. Trimmed and square raised edges.
The tool can be used where soil type is mostly clay. Trenches are often used for transporting food and composted plants or preparing soil for vegetation. Deep and narrow trenches formed are predominantly used when irrigation system pipes need to be laid.
What is a trowel used for?
A trowel is a tool that serves different functionalities, separating types of trowels may have the same basic use, trowels are also used in different scopes. In gardening and horticulture, trowels help in digging small holes, unlike larger arms that are not designed to swiftly create spots for saplings.
Trowels are not sized. Shovels are utilized to make the garden in order to permanently remove undesirable plants. The variations in the gardening tools mean they are made flat, wide and may even be scooped shaped.
What is a weeder tool?
A weeder is a small gardening hand-held tool like a trowel and has a short handle attached to a long thin metal rod with two forking tines, about one inch long, shaped like a V at one end. Some weeder tools are fitted with a fulcrum which provides additional leverage and makes it easier for gardeners to pull weeds from the ground.
What is another name for a pickaxe?
A pickaxe may also be called a pick or railroad pick. A related tool, pick mattock comprises a pointed end with a pick and another end with a broad flat axe blade.
What is the difference between a pick and a mattock?
A pick is defined by its handle with a pointed end or a bifurcated, double-edged end. Some picks have one pointy and one flatter side. A similar instrument is the pick mattock, which has a pick-like pointed end and a broader, flatter end that is axe-shaped. A mattock or cutter mattock, unlike the pick mattock, has one axe end and a broad horizontal blade known as an adze on the other end.
What is the difference between a spade and a shovel?
Spades are designed for the digging tasks of zeroing in to the earth’s surface, whereas shovels are crafted to be used for lifting. While a shovel’s blade and handle are at an angle with one another, the angle between the spade’s handle and blade is perpendicular.
The shovel, for example, is much larger than the spade. Although both tools are quite similar, the spade is not only shorter than the shovel but also has a flat blade, unlike the shovel that has a curved blade and is longer.
There is some overlap in the functions of both a spade and a shovel where both tools are used to work on soil, but a spade works more towards breaking soil while a shovel’s primary function is looking to lift soil and relocate it to another site.
What tools do I need to start a garden?
Starting a garden is a pretty straightforward process, but as any seasoned gardener will tell you, having the right tools and equipment with you on hand makes the process easier to get efficient work done and more enjoyable.
Many of these tools can be bought at a low price or may even be acquired from experienced gardeners. Once you acquire these tools, you will be able to tackle any basic gardening task including setting up a garden bed, improving your soil, or even planting crops for the next growing season.
- Arm protectors
- Clearing tools
- Cobrahead weeding tool
- Digging fork
- Digging shovel
- Edging spade
- Garden hose with multi-pattern sprayers
- Garden rake
- Gardening apron
- Gardening journal
- Heavy-duty leather gloves
- Hoe
- Hori hori digging tool
- Latex-coated cotton gloves
- Leaf rake
- Loppers
- Pruners
- Pruning saw
- Scissors
- Shears
- Trowel
- Weeder
- Wheelbarrow
- Washable synthetic gloves