Indispensable garden tools make weeding, planting, and pruning easy

Where many gardeners like you and me tend to our gardens differently, has everything to do with which garden tools we select and use. I grant you many of us make our choices based on durability after all no one wants a flimsy spade or garden rake when there is important planting and soil amending work we need done.

Old school gardeners that have amassed tons of experience know all too well, when it comes time to buy a new tool it’s all about ease of use. No one in their right mind wants to wrestle with some over engineered, heavy weight, hard to work with garden gadget to be sure.

Furthermore the enthusiastic and willing to give new things a try newbie gardeners, are routinely captivated by the latest and greatest garden gizmos, featured on one of those testimony-filled infomercials filled with all sorts of promises they may, or may not make good on. We all cannot help but find entertaining for one reason or another.

Now that we have that bit of business out of the way, let’s take a closer look at indispensable garden tools, their uses and what tools work best, when and why.

For many an avid gardener, weeding is merely an excuse to get up close and personal with their prized garden plants. Similar to a new mother always on the lookout for something that would cause her newborn baby boy or girl harm. Passionate gardeners like you and me take great care to keep our plants stems, branches, leaves and blooms free from harmful diseases, as well as all those nutrient stealing, unsightly, invasive weeds.

Many an experienced vegetable gardener has discovered pulling stubborn weeds such as crab grass and the like from heavy clay type soils. Easiest after a good watering, loosening the weeds foot hold in the tomato patch, rows of green beans, or squash plants, where we dare not use our trusty garden tiller for fear of doing more harm than good.

Experienced organic vegetable gardeners with a keen understanding of their environment know, and understand exactly how important. Planning garden work such as sowing seeds, and transplanting seedlings coordinated with not only the rhythms of the moon phases, proper soil temperatures produce better fruit and vegetable crops.

Pick-up a copy of the Gardening & Planting by the Moon 2013 Kindle Edition and a digital soil thermometer by following the Amazon link below, you will be glad you did.

With 60 plus different types of shrubs used in landscapes across North America alone, boarders, privacy fences, statement pieces, and topiary . Keeping our landscape beds, gardens, well cared for and looking good, is as much about. Knowing exactly when is the best time to prune Azaleas, Holly bushes and trees, and other ornamentals is I believe we will all agree, just a bit challenging to keep up with.