Five basic garden tools you need to start gardening

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Five basic garden tools you will need before you start gardening.

1) The Garden hoe
2) The Garden watering can
3) The Garden shears
4)The Garden spading fork
5) The Garden bow rake

Gardening Tool: The Gardening Hoe

The Garden Hoe:

first gardening tool to pick is a gardening hoe. Hoe's are good for weeding and cultivating the surface of the soil this allows the nutrients and water to penetrate the soil. If you want your plants to be healthy or flower to be beautiful you have to have the right hoe for the job.

Garden Hoe

Gardening Tool: The Watering Can

The Watering Can

Your next gardening tool should be a watering can. A long nozzles watering can allows water to come out at a very gentle flow and is great for reaching across long distances relative to gardening. Make sure to pick up a watering can that has a detachable spray head. This kind of watering can is excellent for watering seedlings.

Watering Can

Gardening Tool: The Garden Shears

Garden Shears

Garden Shears
You should pick a pair of garden shears that fits comfortably in your hand. otherwise gardening may become a painful expereince Shears also known as clippers are used for pruning shaping and removing foliage or branches. a small ax also works well to cut branches that are too thick to cut with shears.

Gardening Tool: The Spading Fork

Spreading Fork

pick up a spading fork as your next gardening tool. Before you plant anything, you will need to and dig and turn up the soil. This Gardening tool is used to dig down into hard soil and break up the ground. which will make the next too essential.

Spading Fork

Gardening Tool: The Bow Rake

Bow Rake

Buy a good bow rake. This gardening tool is used for leveling the soil after it has been turned and before you start planting, or for removing large chunks of earth or rocks, stones from the soil. You can also turn a bow rake over and use the flat side to smooth soil in preparation for planting.

Bow Rake


I've provided some general pictures of the tools listed above to give everyone who is interested in gardening an idea of what they look like..

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