Yard Carts to Make Gardening and Yard Work Easier

One of my favorite kinds of yard carts is a lightweight folding canvas model like the Allsop folding yard cart shown to the right. It's super light and very convenient for your light weight gardening and yard tasks. In fact it only weighs about 15 pounds. So it's weight doesn't add much to your lawn work. It can hold about 150 pounds or 3-cubic yards of plants and garden waste. So it's not super strong, but great for the lightweight gardening tasks. You can also lay it flat for easy loading and then make it a yard cart.

We live in Northern Maine. First the leaves are beautiful to look at in the Fall and then they are major lawn work! Partly because we're cheap and partly because we like to be Greenies, we use our leaves as mulch and we compost them. So we spend a lot of time in the fall moving leaves around. We've found using this dedicated leaf cart, we spend less time chasing leaves. It holds a 30-pound leaf bag. The lid lets you stop when you need to and then start again later. For convenience, you can hang it on the wall for easy storage.

Our house was built-well before electricity and oil heat, so it has five fireplaces. All of them work and we use them all. So you can imagine the wood that we go through in a long Maine winter. It's okay. When we cut down a tree, we plant a seedling. So hopefully we'll always have home-grown firewood. But it is a pain to chop down and then cart to the sometimes distant house. My husband can use a large utility cart to haul lots of wood. Me, not so much. My limit is this cute little log caddy. If you've been using a wheelbarrow, you'll be surprised at how much easier this is to push.

This is the largest size yard cart or when they get to this size - utility cart - that we own. It holds up to 400 pounds. Yes, we looked at utility carts that hold up to 1,200 pounds. Neither of us wanted to deal with that much weight. Some of the features that my engineer husband appreciated are the 10-inch, all-terrain pneumatic tires and the removable sides. Sometimes when where planting trees then don't fit in the bed and it's nice to be able to have them hang off of the sides. The mesh design means that it doesn't hold water.

My parents recently bought an Ames True Temper Easy Roller Lawn Cart and report that they love using it! Mostly they like the fact that it's easy to roll up and down hill and dump things out of. It has a great wheel base with 10-inch front wheels and 5-inch back wheels. It helps you stay organized with a tool tray. There are also clips to help bring your rake or hoe along.