Protect your workers with the right equipment


Essential Equipment for a Gardener

Whether your grounds are large or small, theAlso, a good sprinkler; a deep cultivator
right tools and equipment can speed routinesuch 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 keepingsoil  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 wheredeposited beneath or to one side of the
you can keep all your tools, and themachine, where they sift down among the grass
insecticides, fertilizers, stakes, wire,leaves and form a light, protective mulch
paint and other equipment a well-preparedlayer. This decomposes after a while and adds
gardener should have, arrange to make spaceto  the  organic  fertility  of  the  lawn.
in your garage, or build a locker in a corner
of your carport or breezeway. A tool shedOther equipment to have on hand that will
that is like a giant kitchen cabinet can bekeep 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. Theseor canvas, chicken wire, garden line; a
include a metal shank spade or, better, theyardstick and a measuring cup and spoons;
easier-to-handle and extremely useful spadingcreosote and other needed paints and a
fork, and the small and handy plantingpaintbrush; 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, soleaves  are  valuable  attachments.
you will have them when you need them, your
steel shank hand trowel, hand fork and handThe 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, ofcultivator, spreader, soil-testing kit,
course, and so is the bamboo or broom rake. Agarden tractor and garden lawn sweeper, or
weed spud for hand removal of weeds is amechanical garden mower with mulching
favourite instrument, and a good pair ofattachment and power rotary tiller, and,
shears or a hand pruner is indispensable. Thefinally,  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 edgingmower and mulcher, for example, suggest a new
sickle which utilizes old razor blades; lawnway to gather fall leaves and use them for
edger and grass-edging shears; long-handledmulching. You run it over the lawn in the
or pole-pruning shears, hedge shears andusual way. The leaves are cut chemicals and,
lopping  shears.finally, pots and flats.



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