Almost every gardener has some type of gardening equipment. In point of fact, it’s almost impossible to have a garden without used gardening equipment. What kind of gardening equipment you use will apparently depend on the sizing and extent of your garden, what you are capable to handle, if you prefer to spend a lot of time in your garden or get done quickly, and in the end, how much money you are willing to spend.
Although a lot of 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. What kind you buy depends on how serious of a gardener you are. Hand tools include your everyday items like shovels, spading forks, rakes, trowels, and diggers. These can all be used to get a garden set up for planting and are comparatively easy and do not need a lot of strength to use. Other tools include a wheel cultivator, pickax, and mattock.
While power tools are a little more expensive than hand tools, they actually cut down on the hard labor. The most necessary piece of gardening equipment is beyond any doubt the tiller. The tiller will break up the ground and get it set up for planting, chop up any debris, and help mix in fertilizer and compost. If you do not want to spend the money on a tiller you can hire someone or rent a tiller for one time use. Additional power tools that are really popular include chippers, garden shredders, and chainsaws.
If you have bushes, hedges, or small trees in your yard, cutting tools are a vital piece of gardening equipment. Pruning shears are fine for branches about ¾" in diameter, while lopping shears can deal branches from a half inch up to more or less 2 inches. Pole pruners are on a pole and can reach branches up to 15 feet above ground. Hedge shears and pruning saws are both larger, weightier duty pruning tools for the serious gardener.
As your plants must be irrigated in order to survive, and lets face it, it does not rain whenever we need it to, gardening equipment for irrigating is a must have. The one thing you can not get along without is a water hose, everything after that is optional. A lot of gardeners use sprinklers or s drip irrigation hose. There are even timers you can buy for sprinklers or drip hoses, if you are willing to drop the additional cash.
Gardening without gardening equipment would be a nightmare. Sure there are a few people who love getting a bit dirty while they plant their flowers, but still those types of people have the most basic of gardening tools, like a rake or a hoe. Gardening equipment is a part of gardening, as important as the dirt and the seeds.
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