Garden tools do not need to be expensive or fancy. A few simple tools are all that are needed in most home gardens. Gardener Scott shares his favorite garden tools; the ones he uses most often and carries throughout the garden. (Video #170)
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Pruner:
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Utility Knife:
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Hori Hori:
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Trowels:
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Water Wand:
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Gloves:
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45 Comments
If you were hand watering, during a dry period, how long would you spend on each bed?
When you said stickers for some reason I thought about the little rainbow and butterflies little girls stick to their lunchboxes and thought " Yeah, don't want to touch that!" lol
Can sis sell Dad's gloves to us? Or a hat? Just sayin
Agreed on all the tools you mention. I would add a good water hose. The thin ones will just end up making you mad when they kink and spring leaks.
Just wondering, which method is better for vegetables gardening…in ground or raised beds…watering, pests, animals? Thank you.
Thank You for the tool tips. I agree that some tools are so important. I love tools that are multipurpose.I recently discovered the Hori Hori knife and now have one. I also always have a trowel called a soil scoop. And since I don't do well with wheelbarrows I have a 4 wheeled Gorilla dump cart. I am kind of a tool nerd!
Thank you sir!
I carry a Leatherman with scissors and a small knife.
I just received my new hoe today. The rogue 7” hoe its awesome, from A.W. Leonard company
Oh yeah, stirrup hoe is the only hoe I have used for 40 years…and I just bought a hand version for my raised beds, so excited to use it!!
Hi Scott! I never saw that one for the weeds… Could you do me a favor and write it down for me to search? I find it very usefull! Thanks!!
I also have a garden buddy like your Yellow Lab. I am currently training her not to go in my raised beds,though!
Cargo pants! My pockets always have stuff in them xD you can never have to many pockets!
Thank you for all that good information ATL
Over the wheel barrow I prefer the ulity wagon with two large rectangular tolts
Tools can be a great help, I have most of the ones in the video. One rule I do follow with tools is to buy the best quality tools I can afford. If you dont you will end up buying it again. Quality may cost more but its better to buy once and cry once.
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If you don't have a yellow gardening dog, you're just wasting your time.
I appreciate the info, but the dog captured my attention. My favorite dog in the world ( he was better than many humans😊) was a yellow lab named Sam.
I painted the grips on my wheelbarrows. They are always some cheap rough wood. Much easier on the hands. I oil and sand ash etc.
I was wondering if you could recommend a good gardening hose type and brand?
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Love the wind peacock in the background. Had me for a minute thinking it was an actual peacock.
Great video, I'm putting that shower head hose attachment on my must have lost.
Who else learning gardening this 2020
Nice vid, but i prefer homemade and/or old (ancient) tools. Sure they aren't very pretty or shiny but they tend to be a LOT more sturdier than you can buy. For reference.: I have a 36 year old knapsack sprayer and still works perfectly. (And i'm 36 as well)
I'm one of those gardeners that have all those out with me and still end up digging with my hands without my gloves on. Lol very good information
I love my stirrup hoe. One thing I use often is a watering can. I’ve seen a mailbox on some gardening channels placed in the garden to hold often used hand tools. I think I’ll do that next year. One thing I’ll keep there will be twine.
i don't have a wheelbarrow but i use the radio flyer. that stirrup hoe looks so good. i hadn't heard of it before. thanks.
The stirrup hoe is one of my favorite tools!
My favorite is scissor
Stirrup Hoe has been a very useful tool in the flower/landscape gardens to get up sprouting weeds (hate the horsetail weeds, relentless). No issues with raised beds with wood chip mulch cover as the weeds from wind distribution are easy to pick out when they get about 1” up. Went to a Gorilla dumping 4 wheel cart after my wheelbarrow of 20 years rusted out (the bucket). I gave the frame to a neighbor when I moved. Just got a Hori Hori and look forward to using it. I have a very well used pocket folder that does all the work of the utility knife and can be used to prune in a pinch. I have a wand also and I like how that allows controlled watering between plants without getting leaves wet.
Thank you for the video! What is the bed in the background to the left at 3:00 with the galvanized tin? Looks like it has a trellis. Thank you and have a great day!
I just got my garden stuff in the mail and I thought I should whatch this video and the “who to sow video” they help so much thank you!
Knowing I'm not the only one who can wear out leather gloves cheered me up! I want one of those hori hori knives or something similar but I won't use a Stanley knife because I am partially-sighted and would probably cut myself! I once used an axe (or a hatchet?) and the day it whispered past my knee was the day I accepted that I had to get rid of it to avoid being tempted to use it again! I have not heard of a stirrup hoe before (really) but, having seen you use it, I look forward to a trip to the garden centre!
I hate weeds, that hoe looks like it works well its been around for years my father worked at the local farm in the 1930s and he called it a shuffle hoe, it looks like it would leave the roots in , do they grow back?Utility knife, watering wand , felco pruners,Great video Scott very true about tools love my tools i get attached to them , how can you part with an old tool , it kills me to loose one.
I learned a lot! Thank you! A garden hat is what i go out with as a rule
I am going to have to disagree with one of your statements in your gardening week live show this week (in a way you will like) regarding your statement there is really nothing you can do about lawns on clay soil. Wood chips is the answer. At least with Bermudagrass. The builders grade the yard and lay sod right on top of the clay. After three years, the grass starts to show it is unhappy. Lucky for us, they only did our front yard. The back was a few patches of bermudagrass, maybe 5% and probably the rest was contractors mix. Although I planted a bunch of white clover, it only looks good in the spring and then the summer heat takes its toll. (NC) Less than a year ago, I covered the whole back yard 6 inches deep in wood chips. Anybody trying to eradicate bermudagrass from the mulched areas right next to the house knows how impossible it is to get rid of. My back yard is now 85% bermudagrass and it is much healthier than the front. Sort of sad the clover did not survive, but most people dont like clover anyway so I only seeded clover where it would not wash into anyone elses yard. I would encourage you to put this out there and ask people to experiment with this method and let you know their results next year. Maybe have them experiment with only a 20×20 area in the back yard so neighbors dont whine much. prepare first by taking the invasive grass from the beds and put it on the ground first, (the long stolons?) Every 5 feet is fine. blanket with the wood chips nice and deep. prepare to be amazed, especially in the spring
I have mushrooms growing in my vegetable garden. I am growing cucumber, sweet white onion and carrots. Should I pick out the mushrooms? What does it mean to have mushrooms growing in my garden?
I use my hula hoe all the time. Weeding would be so much harder without it.
Aside from a Burgon and Ball foldable knife in my front pocket, I carry all my hand-tools in a small woven willow basket. Most of my garden is on a steep slope and stuff constantly fall out of my back pockets as I climb and bend. My set also includes a ball of jute string, a dandelion iron, and a small foldable hand-saw. And of course, the iPhone is always close by to document. I too wear out garden gloves, about every 6 weeks.
I put an old mailbox in the center of my garden. Holds all the hand tools without having to run into the shed. 🙂
Good list! But – a lot of us ladies don’t have the upper body strength to wrestle a wheelbarrow through any terrain, I have a cart. Super happy with it, saves my bum shoulder for actual work. It dumps stuff as well as a barrow.
Gardener Scott, can the long handled weeder in this video be used in mulched area or grassy area or not applicable as the Japanese knife or a dig Taproot up weeder is needed?
I have been gardening since I was born basically. With my father, and now on my own for the last 5 years, and I definitely want to say to all gardeners. you never stop learning. Ever