Difference between revisions of "Garden tools"

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Push hoe
Different types of hoes
Heavy hoe
Spades - the small one for clay soil, the other one for sandy soil and loamy soil
Hand rake
Wooden hand rake
Grass rake
Edger - An edger is a garden tool used to cleanly separate a lawn from a walkway or borders with vegetables and flowers.
Two of my hand cultivators with different lengths of the handles
A digging fork or 'grelinette' with five teeth
One-pin grelinette or garden fork
Motorized cultivator or tiller
A pitchfork next to a compost bin
Pruning shears
Loppers - Loppers are a type of scissors used for pruning twigs and small branches. They are the largest type of manual garden cutting tool. They are usually operated with two hands, and with handles around 65 cm long to give good leverage.
The billhook is used for cutting smaller woody material such as shrubs and branches.

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 File:Weeder.jpg|'''Push hoe'''
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+File:Peasant in the vegetable garden.JPG|'''Heavy hoe'''
 File:Spade.jpg|'''Spades '''- the small one for clay soil, the other one for sandy soil and loamy soil
 File:Hark (rake).jpg|'''Hand rake'''