12 Essential Gardening Tools I Wouldn’t Garden Without

12 essential gardening tools that I wouldn’t garden without. You don’t need many tools for the garden, but there are some essential tools for the beginner and experienced gardener, tools for small and large gardens. Tools can make gardening easier, more enjoyable and more efficient. There are so many tools on the market and it can be overwhelming to know what garden tool you need, also how to use these garden tools are all in this video. All these tools make great gifts for the gardener as well!

Frost blanket
N-Sulate Frost Cover

Trowel, 3 tine cultivar, Japanese hoe
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Flexible bucket
Flexible Garden Buckets

Felco pruners, sharpeners, lubricant
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Stirrup hoe
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Dibber
Wooden Dibber

Small shears/scissors
Dramm Compact Shear

Brass Shut off valve
Dramm Brass Shut Off Valve

Lemon head watering diffuser
Dramm Water Breaker 750 Lemon Head

Digging fork
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00:00 Garden Tools
00:22 Hand Trowel
01:40 Flexible Buckets
02:32 Watering Tools
03:35 Scissors/shears
03:52 3 Tined cultivator
04:28 Storage for tools in the garden
04:53 Stirrup hoe
05:34 Frost Blanket
06:10 Pruners
07:14 Dibber
07:30 Japanese hand hoe
07:52 Pump sprayer
08:21 Digging Fork

A good garden tool can make your job in the garden much easier more efficient and more enjoyable with all the tools on the market it can be a little overwhelming I’m going to share with you the tools that I use on a day-to-day basis in my garden that are great for

Small gardens or even the beginner then later in this video I’m going to share with you the tools that I don’t use every day but I wouldn’t Garden without them if I could only have one tool in the garden I’d want it to be a good hand

TR hand TRS are one of the most versatile tools that you could have in the garden they’re great for doing your transplants you can make little furrows with them to plant your seedlings in they’re great for digging up weeds and you can also work soil amendments into

The soil honestly you could garden with just this one tool when you’re picking out of your hand trial of course you want it to be comfortable and if it has a little bit of shape to it a little bit of curve it’s going to conform to your

Hand a little bit better and be more comfortable you also don’t want a really sharp blunt end because a lot of times you’ll put your hand on the top of that and it can get pretty sore a nice sharp edge is another thing that’s really great with hand TRS hand TRS will come

With measurements on them and honestly I can’t say that I’ve ever really used that but it might come in handy if you’re planting bulbs they also will sometimes come with a serrated edge and there again it’s not something that I use very often but it can be used for

Cutting twine or breaking through a root I love the TRS that are made of metal rather than the plastic they hold up a lot better to prying plus I like the edges that can be sharpened just using a file once a year keep keeps them in top

Condition this makes it sure they can really penetrate into that soil really easy if they have a wood handle just make sure that you use a wood conditioner at least once a year another one of my really favorite garden tools that I wouldn’t Garden without are these flexible buckets their uses are endless

You can haul your leaves in them compost in them soil amendments in them and I really love to put all my tools that I’m going to need for the day so that I can haul it all out at once into my garden I also like to leave one that’s lab a

Clean only and I’ll put my lettuce or clean vegetables in these so that I don’t get that cross contamination from the compost or chicken manure or whatever I’m hauling I really love to have one of these in the garden at all times so that when I’m plucking weeds I

Can just toss them in here and then when it’s full I’ll just haul it out to the compost pile and then bring some compost back to the Garden I love these bigger buckets for mixing my potting mixes in but remember the bigger they are the

Heavier they’re going to be so if I was only to have one bucket I’d pick a medium size because it seems to be the most versatile if you have a garden you’ll need to water and one of the best things that I found for watering my

Garden is a brass shut off valve made by drram and a diffuser and this one’s a lemon head made by drram also I can control the amount of water by the shut off valve whether I want to light soft rain or if I want to water a little bit

Quicker there’s all sorts of different types of diffusers you’ve got a red head which is really the finest and they’re great for using on young Tinder seedlings or you have the silver head that lets out a lot more water these last a long time as long as you remove

Them before we have a freeze I’ll take these diffusers right off the top and I’ll actually use just the shut off valve if I want to shoot water long distances or spray something off like carrots this does a really great job all by itself I’m a little hard on my tools

And so when I use the water wands I seem to go through two or three of those during the season of course we do a lot here with the nursery and everything but this one here had for over 12 years I’m really hard on it and it’s still going

Strong another great tool to have in your little garden tool kit are these pointed Clippers these are awesome for clipping herbs doing Dead Heading and getting those vegetables that you need to cut rather than just pull off like Peppers eggplants and squash these are indispensable in the garden another very

Useful tool to have in the garden is this three Ed cultivating rig this is really great if you have a crust on top of your soil and you can use this just to break that soil loose so that water and air can penetrate more easily they’re also great if you want to do

Just a general broadcast of seeds sprinkle your seeds over the surface and just use this to rake them right into the soil I like this especially for when I use a dry fertilizer I sprinkle that over the surface and use this just to rake that fertilizer in because that

Fertilizer has to have contact with the soil in order for it to break down and be usable for the plants this next item isn’t necessarily a tool but it all depends on how you look at it so it’s a mailbox and it’s a mailbox that I have

On the entrance into my garden and I really like this because I can put my tools inside this or things that I need like markers and tags and Twine the stuff that I use on a day-to-day basis this will store it right next to the garden and keep it out of the weather

It’s a great storage device weeds are a part of the garden and I like to keep them out and my favorite way to do this is with this hulao or also known as a stir up hoe If you keep the edges sharp on this it’ll slide through those weeds

Like butter I can do my entire garden beds or at least the rows in a matter of minutes so this really makes my work very efficient the way this long handled tool works is you slide it back and forth it’s just a back and forth motion over the surface knocking off the

Weeds any tools that have a wooden handle we want to make sure that they have a nice smooth surface because that’s a lot easier on our hand you can sand it down and then use a wood conditioner or even a wax to keep them in good shape Frost blanket is another

Great tool to have on hand it’s really good if you have an early Frost coming and you want to protect those Tinder crops for just a few more weeks or even a month longer you can just put this over them and it’ll protect them up to

About 12° I also like this for growing through the winter time just to protect things like your broccoli cauliflower and cabbages from those deep hard freezes Frost blanket can also be used to protect young tender newly planted seedlings this will give you a little jump start in planting in the springtime

When you put a Rog cover over the top of them during the night time felco bypass pruners now these are my favorite type of pruners you get what you pay for they do cost a little bit more but they last you a very long time these pruners here

Are 20 years old and they’re still going strong the nice thing about these and these are an f-13 they’re for bigger hands like mine and they’ll cut up to 1 and 1/2 in of a branch and that’s a pretty good size for a hand pruner FCO pruners will come in all different types

Of sizes to meet your budget as well as your hand shape size and whether you’re left-handed or right-handed they even have one that has a rotating handle on it that’s exceptional for those who have small hands or arthritis and it really Cuts back on fatigue another feature

That you’ll find on your felos is a little Notch right here for cutting wire and that is really handy sometimes time when I’m out in the Orchard and I’m doing a lot of pruning I like to keep the little Diamond sharpening stone on me so that I can keep those blades nice

And sharp throughout the day as well as some lubricating spray that really keeps those pruners in good working order if you do a lot of transplanting of leaks garlic or even plug transplants then dibbers are a great help for this they’re simply used by just punching a hole into the soil popping your

Transplant in the ground putting some soil around it and you’re done Japanese hand ho is a great little tool for getting weeds especially in tight places it can just reach in there around plants without damaging the root system it’s also really good to just slide underneath your mulch to loosen those

Weeds to make it a lot easier to pull I love using it for making little trenches to put my seeds in or loosening up the soil I love these pump up sprayers I use them all the time when I’m using a compost tea spray or a liquid fertilizer

Sprayed right on the foler of my plants it’s a lot quicker in my bigger Garden than it would be if I was using just a little hand pump sprayer you don’t want to store any of your leftover liquid because that can wreck the gaskets and

Even clog up the orices you want to make sure that you rinse out your tank really well as well as the hose and even using some soapy water will do a good job a good sturdy digging Fork is excellent for loosening soil working in compost slightly into that soil and it’s great

For lifting root crops like potatoes and if you don’t have a pitchfork this is excellent for turning your compulse pile good quality tools can last a lifetime if taken care of make sure that your wooden handles are waxed or oiled your blades cleaned and sharpened and

Most of all keep them out of the weather which I’m a little bad at obviously there are so many garden tools to make your gardening jobs easier but these gardening tools that I talked about today I wouldn’t Garden without I’ll put a link in the description below of where

You can find all of these great tools thanks for hanging out with me today and I truly hope that this helps you in your gardening Ventures and I’ll see you in our next video I have about 10 or 12 pruners that like to keep on hand I keep

One in my bedroom one in the bathroom and even one in my purse bingo