Gardening Kit for Beginners

Gardening Kit for Beginners

The tools you use in garden are many and can be quite expensive, that is why I have narrowed down the gardeners kit to six tools you will definitely want to have in your garden shed.  You will want to grow your garden tool collection as your skill and knowledge grows.  But for now you can focus your hobby to these few tools.

The most valuable tool you will ever purchase is a good pair of garden pruners.  I have a small pair of corona pruners.  They are not the most expensive nor are they the cheapest.  You should be able to purchase a good pair for around $ 30.00.  You can pay upwards of $ 70.00, but I have had the same pair for over ten years.  You will want to clean and sharpen your pruners on a regular basis, this will help them to last longer.  I have a scabbard so that I can have two free hands while working in the garden.

You will want to have a good weeding tool at your disposal.  It really doesn't matter which weeding tool you have.  But I use what is sometimes called a weeding knife. This also comes with a scabbard making is easy to carry around the yard.  You can find these at specialty tools companies.

The first shovel you will want to purchase is the the round tip shovel.  You will use this tool in almost every gardening project.  You will find that the round tip shovel is more versatile than the square tip shovel because it is better for digging.  The square tip shovel is quite important and I in fact have one, but it is not the first shovel you want to purchase.

The pick mattock (pictured center above) is a great tool for digging in tough clay and rocky soil.  You will find this tool useful for loosening soil, digging weeds, and cutting tree roots.

The Grass rake is my favorite rake.  I use it for raking up leaves and pine needles.  Use it to pick-up weeds you pulled and put them in the trash can.  The soft tines are perfect for raking in and around your landscape.  Metal rakes are great in the garden for flattening out soil, but you can use the back side of the mattock for this.

The last tool you will absolutely need in the garden is the most boring: a bucket.  Any bucket will do, I like an old paint bucket or and one that holds water for when that is needed.  You will use this to carry in vegetables from the garden or holding weeds until you have a chance to to dump them in the compost pile.  You can also carry your tools in the bucket.