A Checklist of Essential Gardening Tools for the Beginner

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A Checklist of Essential Gardening Tools for the Beginner

While experienced gardeners may be able to put garden tools to best use, it?s essential that beginning gardeners with fewer established gardening skills have the correct tool for every garden task they need to perform.

Here?s a list of tools most garden center and nursery experts recommend:

Two shovels: One should be a spade with a pointed tip and the other a flat-headed model. Both should have wooden handles at least four feet long.
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Useful Yard & Garden Tools

Useful Yard & Garden Tools

Most gardeners start out with some of the most basic tools they’ll need for working in their gardens, but over time there are many others which can be quite handy to have on hand too. So today we’ll look at some of those.

1. Hedge Trimmers - Even if you don’t have a full fledge hedge, you might be surprised at how useful hedge trimmers can be when you just have a few bushes. As bushes grow they become unruly and unkempt. Now you can of course simply prune and clip them regularly to keep them under control and looking nice, but once they reach a certain age and size it almost seems as if you can never keep up. And this is made worse when you have several bushes to maintain. Hedge trimmers however, allow you to make quick work of the basic trimming and shaping, then you can simply leave them as they are after you’ve trimmed, or go in with your pruners and do some fine tuning instead.

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