Tools Everyone Needs For Landscaping
Landscaping can be easy, just as long as you’ve got the right tools. In this guide, we’re going through a selection of the basic tools that you should have for a landscaping setup. From basic, affordable hand tools to some of the more expensive electric tools that cover larger areas of your garden.
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Garden Tool Selection Guide
Let’s explore some of the garden tools and when the right time might be to select them, and what role they do in your garden. When selecting gardening tools, the method of construction is among the most important considerations. When you hit the first rock with a digging tool, the way the handle is fastened can either mean a lifetime of usage or instant breakage.
Hand Tools
Every shed should have a selection of hand tools that can assist you with the simplest tools of garden maintenance.
Lawn Aerator
Aerating your lawn helps to ensure that it drains properly and keeps nutrients flowing through the lawn. A manual lawn aerator can be held by a hand and punches holes using a foot bar. This is one of the easiest tools to use and continue to keep your lawn healthy.
Rake
A rake makes it much easier to smooth out the ground before planting in an area, and can also be used to rake away things like leaves and debris. It is a useful and essential tool and is great for both grass and artificial grass.
Shovel
There are plenty of times when you might have to dig something up or make space in the ground. A shovel makes this dead easy.
Garden fork
The garden fork can be used for turning over soil and other materials and makes it really easy to dig big areas. If you have sandy or loose soil then the strong lines make it easy to turn through the soil and also encourage nutrients into the soil.
Trowel
A small tool with a flatter blade, good for digging smaller holes or removing weeds. These little inexpensive tools are one of the main hand tools that every landscape designer needs.
Secateurs
Great for trimming and cutting away branches, leaves, and trimming down those out-of-control hedges. They are effectively heavy-duty outdoor scissors that are great for pruning.
Wheelbarrow
When you plan a landscaping project you may need to move large amounts of rubble or other materials, the wheelbarrow is a classic way to allow people to push it around over long spaces.
Landscaping Power Tools
Some of the more advanced landscape design ideas require more advanced tools including landscaping power tools.
Chainsaw
As well as pruning, a chainsaw can be used for felling certain trees. These may be electric or powered by oil, but you need to practice caution when using a chainsaw.
Leaf blower
Leaf blowers make it much easier to blow away huge amounts of leaves that may have fallen from the trees, and it can be much quicker than using rakes to do the job by hand.
Tiller
A tiller is a great tool to allow you to break up hard, compact soil and turn it into loose, nutrient-rich soil that is perfect for planting. An electric tiller can make it easier to prepare large areas for planting.
Pole pruner
A pole pruner can reach the areas you can’t get to by hand. Pruning away leaves and branches that have overgrown up above head height.
Hedge trimmer
A hedge trimmer makes it much easier to trim down hedges and bushes in your garden. It is far quicker than doing this big job by hand so if you are a landscaper you will need this kind of tool.
Mower
A mower is essential unless you have artificial grass. It is a way to cut the grass when it starts to get a little unruly, one of the most regular maintenance tasks in your whole garden and landscaping.
Grass Trimmer
Grass trimmers are similar tools but allow you to get to the harder-to-reach areas such as cutting away overgrown grass in corners, or even around the edge of a tree.
How to Choose the Right Garden Tools for the Job
Whether you’ve just created a plan for a whole new landscaping project using free CAD design software, or you just need a way to maintain your backyard to ensure it doesn’t get out of control, it is crucial that you find the right tools, and our list gives a good starting point for landscapers and aspiring landscapers.
While hand tools might be better for more intricate areas or small jobs, you might need some power tools to get the job done, and much more quickly.
Conclusion
Our list is an excellent starting point for landscaping. Having the right tools for the job is essential to allow you to get the job done effectively, and often saves a lot of time and effort as well. With our guide, you can understand a lot more about the tools you will be using day-to-day in your yard.
Author: George Nelson
