What gardening tool couldn't you live without?

9 years ago

Yesterday I had to prune the rose bush on my balcony and discovered I completely lack the most essential garden tool - I don't have secateurs! My garden collection is nowhere near complete!

What's your no.1 gardening tool? What's essential to maintain your garden/balcony?

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Victoria Harrison

9 years ago

I'm such an easy target for a beautiful garden product! My favourite items are my trug, my wooden handled spade and a roll of twine for tying back climbing plants such as sweetpeas and unruly foxgloves! I would love to own a shed / garden room like this...

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Wild Infusion
9 years ago
.....mmm someone to do it...lol I agree secateurs small and then larger shears
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O'Carroll Custom Cabinetry
9 years ago
My hands.
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Thank you - it’s already been dug out and I’ve added a mix of crazy paving down the centre with a large pot in the middle (with a cordyline in) and plum slate chippings for now. I’m really hoping that any bluebells can’t get through the 2 layers of heavy duty weed barrier and the stones, ha ha. If they do then I can just pull the sheets back and remove them. Yes there is a budlea by the canopy and I keep trimming it down so it stays fairly short for now until I find an alternative plant to put there that’s not so tall and likes sun (evergreen preferably) The left side with the large cordyline (seems to be dying off - is this normal in autumn??) has had a good clear out and I’ve also planted a palm and red cordyline type bush along with some other tropical feeling evergreens. Seemed a shame to remove it right now.
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Barnhart Gallery
9 years ago
I thought the same thing O'Carroll.

If I'm true to my vanity, then it's my fancy paisley garden gloves, custom work apron I designed and shiny brass hand tools with wooden handles. Lots of folks stop by when I'm gardening to say hello or ask about my plantings, so I like to be dressed for company, LOL.

Functionally, I'd be lost without handy clippers, a shovel, wheelbarrow and rooting hormone.

Overall though I think the best tool is the ability to envision the end product when choosing and placing plants.
grobby
9 years ago
I have to agree with O'Carroll. Hands are the best tools. I'm always pulling weeds or mulching, just wish I could remember to wear gloves to protect my best gardening tool.
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Blue Desert Interiors
9 years ago
Being originally from Michigan, I would say shears, but now I live in Arizona and the ground is like a rock here because of the clay, so my new answer would be a hand hoe! It's wicked but does the job.
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O'Carroll Custom Cabinetry
9 years ago
was just being funny, or not. I like your post. I actually would go to a good spade shovel as a single tool.
Angel 18432
9 years ago
My one and only tool that I couldn't live without is my edger. Use it for so many other things.
jonathan3
9 years ago
I need my hoe. I need to move soil to keep the "basins" around plants that are needing water at this time of the year. To conserve water, small depressions are created around plants so all water flows to the plant.
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9 years ago
Angel, do tell -- thinking I might need one. Is yours manual or motor?
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Studio M Interior Design
9 years ago
Shears, I'd absolutely go nuts with overgrown plants and shrubs! :)
pavinia
9 years ago
I can't live without my aerator sandals - they leave my grass thick and green :)
catz1
9 years ago
Husband, boyfriend, child (recalcitrant or not) grand kid or even an amiable gardener or dog will do. Company.
Anne H
9 years ago
Angel18432: what type of edger do you use? I'm really having a hard time finding one that meets my needs. I'm thinking old school, manual...what suggestions do you have?
Patricia Pelgrims
9 years ago
My own bare hands.
Curt D'Onofrio
9 years ago
Bare hands to remove dead leaves on cheery, plumb trees and for weeding. Our rose bush, although beautiful needs to be sheared...getting big and this year we notice it producing dead off shoots...had to lopped those off
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9 years ago
Secateurs and lawn mower, we use both every fortnight.
Angel 18432
9 years ago
Had to look up "secateurs" - hand pruner.

What gardening tool couldn't you live without?

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