Monday, January 9, 2012

Basic Gardening Equipment for Beginning Gardeners

By Tony Peters


So, you wish to start a garden but you have no thought where you should start. For one, you need to have room to grow your garden, but that is likely something you have or you would not be considering about doing it. Secondly, you need to know what you want to grow whether it be some type of vegetable garden or perhaps you want to grow flowers. The very next thing you have to do is to ensure you get the right types of gardening equipment. You can go with basic and inexpensive or complicated and expensive, but you have to choose something.

The basic items of gardening equipment you require are things that you need to move the soil. You can buy a rototiller to initially dig up the grass and loosen up the soil and for weeding later on. You can also use a spade and a rake for this. What you wish to do depends on how much you want to spend. If you decide on the rototiller, it is going to a bit more expensive, but it will be much easier and quicker work. If you want to save cash and you don't mind sweating it out, the shovel and rake will work well for you. Just make sure the rake is a heavy metal rake, not the thin metal types you may purchase to rake leaves. They are two different types of rakes.

Once you have dug up your garden area, you may find that you have run into large rocks that you have had to pry up and you also have clumps of grass lying around. For this, you want to get your next item for gardening equipment, a wheelbarrow. You can utilise this to transport heavier items that you may not want to carry around to get rid of. As gardening equipment items go, this is one of the most essential. You can also utilise this for soil transport as well as moving around anything else you need for your garden. You can use it for other jobs around the yard as well. Buy a good one.

You may also want to acquire smaller gardening equipment items like a small hand sized spade and small hand rake for weeding your garden, and a hoe. You should make sure that you purchase a good hose so that you can always water your plants when required. Some people think that knee pads and other like items used for comfort are essential gardening equipment items, and that is alright too. If you have back or knee problems, these can really help your gardening experience. No matter how much you like gardening, you may give up quickly if you suffer pain each time you are finished.

There are many other types of gardening equipment out there that you may wish to buy. What you should think about is how helpful you think each item would be and how much money you have to spend to make your gardening experience a bit easier. There are a lot of things on the market that the majority of people don't need to buy, but for some of these gardening equipment items, the need may be up to you. Something that makes your life easier is always a good investment if you are going to use it in the long term.




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