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