Protect your workers with the right equipment


Essential Equipment for a Gardener

Whether your grounds are large or small,dibble for seedlings; a stapling gun; a
the right tools and equipment can speedpruning saw and soil sieve.
routine tasks and help you to successfulFor your hose, a reel is good to have,
gardening. Taking good care of yourand a canvas hose and into small
tools and keeping them in one place willfragments 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 roomdown among the grass leaves and form a
where you can keep all your tools, andlight, protective mulch layer. This
the insecticides, fertilizers, stakes,decomposes after a while and adds to the
wire, paint and other equipment aorganic fertility of the lawn.
well-prepared gardener should have,Other equipment to have on hand that
arrange to make space in your garage, orwill keep you from running to the store
build a locker in a corner of yourjust when you want to be out working on
carport or breezeway. A tool shed thatthe grounds, includes: plant ties,
is like a giant kitchen cabinet can bestakes, 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 andpaintbrush; sand, peat moss, lime, plant
extremely useful spading fork, and thefoods 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 needattachments.
them, your steel shank hand trowel, handThe following are luxuries, perhaps, but
fork and hand cultivator.they will help you do a professional
An iron or bow rake is fundamental, ofjob: a pressure sprayer, root feeder,
course, and so is the bamboo or broomwheel hoe and cultivator, spreader,
rake. A weed spud for hand removal ofsoil-testing kit, garden tractor and
weeds is a favourite instrument, and agarden lawn sweeper, or mechanical
good pair of shears or a hand pruner isgarden mower with mulching attachment
indispensable. The other musts are yourand power rotary tiller, and, finally,
hose, hand mower, roller, watering canan electric hotbed.
and wheelbarrow.The mechanical, or power, machines are
Not as vital but very useful are anbringing about changes in gardening. The
edging sickle which utilizes old razormower and mulcher, for example, suggest
blades; lawn edger and grass-edginga new way to gather fall leaves and use
shears; long-handled or pole-pruningthem 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 deepcut chemicals and, finally, pots and
cultivator such as the potato hoe; aflats.



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