Tuesday, March 3, 2009

Gardening Supplies

By Nancy T. Ferguson

Do you want to start a garden? Make sure you have all the right supplies first. What will happen if you start digging up your yard to start gardening and find out you don't have all the right supplies to continue? You will have a huge mess and an ugly yard until you get the tools.

In order to find out what supplies you need, go through the gardening process. The first step is the cultivate the land and prep the soil. To break up the soil you will need a tiller. A motorized tiller will work best to break up the soil. They are efficient machines but quite expensive.

If a tiller is just too expensive for you, you can use several other cheaper tools instead. A shovel is an absolute necessity. Especially if you have tough land, you will need a pickax to help you break up the grass and get through the large clumps. A garden hoe will help you with the remaining smaller clumps.

A garden hoe is a small tool that you can use to chop of the leftover chunks and break up the remaining grass and roots. A cultivator will help you by raking out the rocks and other chunks of stuff you don't want.

Once you are ready to start planting, you will need some smaller hand tools. A trowel is a small hand shovel and will be used very often for transplanting, removing weeds, etc. You can also get a hand size cultivator to use.

When your plants begin to grow, you will need to prune them every once and a while. Shears will work well for this especially for bushes. You can use them to keep bushes from over growing and keep them healthy.

Some other tools you may find useful include a hose, wheelbarrow, circle hoe, and fertilizers. You can use a watering can to water, but if you have a large garden, a hose will be much faster and more efficient.

A wheelbarrow isn't absolutely necessary, but you will find it very useful for yard work in general. A circle hoe can help you weed our garden because it can get in the smaller spaces. These tools can help you maintain a beautiful healthy garden. - 15266

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