Garden tools

This is Section 4 of the Gardening Seminar:Start your own garden. Comments or questions are appreciated. You can also write to John Eagles.

A gallery of common garden tools

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  Push hoe to cut weeds just under the surface

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  Different types of hoes to control weeds by agitating the surface of the soil around plants, piling soil around the base of plants (hilling), creating narrow furrows (drills) and shallow trenches for planting seeds and bulbs, to chop weeds, roots and crop residues

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  Heavy hoe to dig or move soil

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  Spades for digging or removing earth, the small one for clay soil, the other one for sandy soil and loamy soil

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  Hand rake for loosening the soil, light weeding and leveling, removing dead grass and weeds from gardens

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  Wooden hand rake for hay

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  Grass rake for leaves and grass

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  Edger to cleanly separate a lawn from a walkway or borders with vegetables and flowers.

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  Two of my hand cultivators with different lengths of the handles. Hand cultivators are used to stir the soil, either before planting to aerate the soil and prepare a smooth, loose seedbed or after the crop has begun, also to aerate the soil and to kill weeds.

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  A garden fork, spading fork, digging fork or graip is used for loosening, lifting and turning over soil in gardening and farming. It is used similarly to a spade.

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  A digging fork or 'grelinette' with five teeth. It is used for loosening, lifting and turning over soil in gardening and farming. It has the advantage that it doesn't disturb the layers in the soil.

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  One-pin grelinette or garden fork, works deeper than the ordinary grelinette or garden fork

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  Motorized cultivator or tiller. It can perform many functions such as plowing, cultivating and tilling of the soil. Rototilling is much faster than manual tilling, but exhausting work, especially when using the heavier models.

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  A pitchfork next to a compost bin. It is used to lift and pitch (throw) loose material, such as hay, leaves, dung or other agricultural materials.

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  Pruning shears are used to prune hard branches of trees and shrubs, sometimes up to two centimetres thick.

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  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.

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  The billhook is used for cutting smaller woody material such as shrubs and branches.

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  A hand drill to make holes for poles to fix fences

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  A manual hedge trimmer. There also exist several types of motorized hedge trimmers.

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  A wheelbarrow is a device to carry loads.

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