If you love gardens and want a beautiful one at your doorstep, Florida Ltd, Waikato offers premium design services to be able to assist and complete your gardening needs. They have an experienced creative team in a wide base of project types ranging from broad acre rural properties to small-scale areas of highly detailed design. Their extensive plant and garden care knowledge of specific Waikato growing conditions allow them to offer planting plans of the highest standards. If you wish for your plans to be perfectly tailored to your requirements, Florida Ltd is your one-stop destination. But if you want to try your hand at gardening yourself, here’s the list of essential tools you must have for it.
1. Gloves
Gloves are at the top of the list, be it pulling up nettles or cutting back thorny shrubs even fairly harmless looking plants can leave your hands sore and irritated if they’re unprotected. Prolonged use of hand tools can also do surprising damage to bare hands through pressure and friction. Invest in a pair of gloves that are tough enough to defend you from the prickliest of brambles and you’ll find gardening a lot more enjoyable.
2. Hand Trowel
A hand trowel is indispensable when it comes to planting. It helps dig up tough weeds. As with all garden tools, keep it clean and store it in a dry place to prevent rusting.
3. Hand Fork
Another small but essential garden tool, a hand fork allows you to break up hard, lumpy soil and mix in crumbly compost to achieve a consistency that your plants can grow roots in.
4. Shovel
Using a hand trowel to do some serious digging will take all day. A long-handled pointed digging shovel can do this in a fraction of the time. This is a garden tool that has to be well-made and tough because the handle will be under a lot of pressure.
5. Digging Fork
A larger, long-handled version of the hand fork is a digging fork with straight prongs. It is used for loosening soil over larger areas or to break up hard soil before digging.
6. Rake
Apart from clearing leaves or twigs from your lawn, Rakes can also be used for breaking up soil and leveling out beds. You can choose from straight-headed rakes or leaf rakes with longer, lighter prongs.
7. Secateurs
Secateurs are the most used gardening tools. No matter what you’re doing in the garden, you are likely to come across plants that need cutting back. A good quality, sharp pair has amazing cutting power and can chop through stems or branches of up to ¾ of an inch. Don’t try to force them to cut anything thicker though, or you could blunt or break them.
8. Long-handled pruners
For reaching up into trees or hedges, Long-handled pruners are very handy. The blades are also larger and stronger and so can handle thicker branches of up to 2 inches in diameter, depending on the model.
9. Sheers
Sheers are used for cutting back several thinner stems at once. They are particularly effective for cutting back hedges and long grasses, or deadheading flowering plants with thinner stems.
10. Lawnmower
If you have a lawn of any size, it’s difficult to do without a lawnmower. These come in all shapes and sizes, from entirely manual mowers to high-tech electrical models.
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