Stocking Your Garden Tool Box With the Best Tools

Everyone's garden tool box should contain the items needed to do gardening and landscaping hand work with top-quality items. There are a few critical hand tools you'll want to have in your box of garden tools so your work in the garden will be easier and more pleasant.

Ideally, you want to purchase your garden tool box after purchasing the items with which you wish to stock the tool box. That way you can be certain you buy a tool box that is large enough to hold your necessary equipment. You can easily locate garden tool boxes which also act as stools so that you can be comfortable while performing your tasks. These are usually durable, sturdy rubber-like compounds which are built to support an adult, even of above-average weight, for long periods of time. Of course, any type of garden tool box will work if you do not like the idea of a stool type tool box.

Arranging Your Garden Tool Box

Inside your tool box, you'll want to have all your garden hand tools. You may think this means you'll need to have a plethora of tools in order to garden successfully. This is not true at all. You really only need a few key garden tools in your tool box to take care of all those small tasks which do not require heavy, long-handled tools.

You'll want to include in your garden [tool box]tools for pruning and cutting, digging, breaking up soil, planting, and removing weeds from your landscape. Many garden tools are multi-purpose in nature so you have no need to buy a specific tool for every single task, even though specialty tools may be available. Instead, buy a top-quality basic garden tool set for your garden tool box rather than stocking a bunch of specialty tools of lesser quality. You'll find it pays off in the long run.

A hand trowel is an absolute necessity. It can be used for planting small plants, placing bulbs in the soil, and digging small holes. You want to choose a garden trowel that has a short, sturdy ergonomic handle attached to a curved or cupped metal trowel blade. You may want to select on that has a narrow blade and another with a wide blade to fit different tasks. The narrow blade trowel is best for bulbs and removing weeds while the wider blade is perfect for larger tasks.

A good garden tool box should also contain a strong, sturdy garden fork. This type of tool has four tines which point down from the handle at a 90-degree angle. The garden fork is perfect for working compost into small areas, adding fertilizer in small plots of soil, breaking soil for aeration, and removing grass from the flower bed. Choose a garden fork with a strong, ergonomic handle.

A short-handled hand hoe is another key tool for your garden tool box. It should have a square, straight edged blade on a sturdy handle which feels comfortable in your hand. Use it for breaking clumps of dirt and the corner of the blade is great for digging up weeds.
A quality hand pruning tool is also needed. Hand pruning shears should have one strong, curved steel blade and a sharp straight blade. The curved blade holds the branch or plant while the sharp edge does the work when the handles are pressed together. Select quality steel hand pruning shears with rubber or composite covered handles for comfort. Grips which are textured offer the most comfort for many gardeners.

A sharp knife, either straight or folding, should be in your garden tool box. This tool box item can be used for removing buds, deadheading, and for cutting holes in weed barrier material for planting. It's also handy for opening bags of soil or other items. You just can't have a complete tool box for gardening without a good sharp knife of quality steel. You'll also want to place a honing stone in your tool box so you can keep the knife sharp without having to go into the house to sharpen it.

As you can easily see, building a basic garden tool boxdoes not require buying tons of different tools. Of course, you may want to add an item here and there over the seasons, but the basics are really all you need in your tool box to grow a beautiful, lush garden and care for your landscape.

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