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