| Whether your grounds are large or small, | | | | dibble for seedlings; a stapling gun; a |
| the right tools and equipment can speed | | | | pruning saw and soil sieve. |
| routine tasks and help you to successful | | | | For your hose, a reel is good to have, |
| gardening. Taking good care of your | | | | and a canvas hose and into small |
| tools and keeping them in one place will | | | | fragments and deposited beneath or to |
| pay dividends in time and effort. | | | | one side of the machine, where they sift |
| If you do not have a tool house or room | | | | down among the grass leaves and form a |
| where you can keep all your tools, and | | | | light, protective mulch layer. This |
| the insecticides, fertilizers, stakes, | | | | decomposes after a while and adds to the |
| wire, paint and other equipment a | | | | organic fertility of the lawn. |
| well-prepared gardener should have, | | | | Other equipment to have on hand that |
| arrange to make space in your garage, or | | | | will keep you from running to the store |
| build a locker in a corner of your | | | | just when you want to be out working on |
| carport or breezeway. A tool shed that | | | | the grounds, includes: plant ties, |
| is like a giant kitchen cabinet can be | | | | stakes, labels; burlap or canvas, |
| added lean-to fashion to your garage. | | | | chicken wire, garden line; a yardstick |
| There are basic tools everybody needs. | | | | and a measuring cup and spoons; creosote |
| These include a metal shank spade or, | | | | and other needed paints and a |
| better, the easier-to-handle and | | | | paintbrush; sand, peat moss, lime, plant |
| extremely useful spading fork, and the | | | | foods and insecticides and other a wand |
| small and handy planting shovel. | | | | for soaking the soil without getting |
| Then, to carry in a hand box or basket, | | | | water on the leaves are valuable |
| so you will have them when you need | | | | attachments. |
| them, your steel shank hand trowel, hand | | | | The following are luxuries, perhaps, but |
| fork and hand cultivator. | | | | they will help you do a professional |
| An iron or bow rake is fundamental, of | | | | job: a pressure sprayer, root feeder, |
| course, and so is the bamboo or broom | | | | wheel hoe and cultivator, spreader, |
| rake. A weed spud for hand removal of | | | | soil-testing kit, garden tractor and |
| weeds is a favourite instrument, and a | | | | garden lawn sweeper, or mechanical |
| good pair of shears or a hand pruner is | | | | garden mower with mulching attachment |
| indispensable. The other musts are your | | | | and power rotary tiller, and, finally, |
| hose, hand mower, roller, watering can | | | | an electric hotbed. |
| and wheelbarrow. | | | | The mechanical, or power, machines are |
| Not as vital but very useful are an | | | | bringing about changes in gardening. The |
| edging sickle which utilizes old razor | | | | mower and mulcher, for example, suggest |
| blades; lawn edger and grass-edging | | | | a new way to gather fall leaves and use |
| shears; long-handled or pole-pruning | | | | them for mulching. You run it over the |
| shears, hedge shears and lopping shears. | | | | lawn in the usual way. The leaves are |
| Also, a good sprinkler; a deep | | | | cut chemicals and, finally, pots and |
| cultivator such as the potato hoe; a | | | | flats. |