| Every gardener has a set of tools he or she | | | | that are most suited for the type of work you |
| cannot do without. These supplies are as very | | | | are doing. If you are pruning roses or working |
| much a part of the gardener as the flowers and | | | | with thorn bearing plants the elbow length gloves |
| plants he or she grows. Among the many | | | | provide the most protection for your hands and |
| gardening supplies, the essentials are the shovel, | | | | arms. |
| spade, hoe and prying bar. Add to these a hardy | | | | Seeds of flowers, vegetables, and herbs are as |
| wheelbarrow and some watering cans or a | | | | much a part of the garden as the soil in which |
| garden hose. | | | | they grow. Ornamental accessories such as |
| Shovels are useful and versatile and they are able | | | | decorated flower pots, flower baskets, and water |
| to handle a variety of chores. A gardener | | | | fountains also serve to enhance. |
| depends on their shovel to help dig up daylilies and | | | | There can be no thriving garden without clean |
| rose bushes. This garden tool is also helpful when | | | | water and sunlight. Lightweight watering cans with |
| compost needs to be spread about or when holes | | | | the long spouts are the perfect way to sprinkle a |
| need to be dug for new plants. The garden spade | | | | gentle shower of water over young plants and |
| is smaller and is commonly used to help prepare a | | | | new seedlings. For larger sections of land a good |
| garden or flower bed. | | | | garden hose with an adjustable sprayer is an |
| There is no better tool than the hoe when it | | | | efficient and reliable way to give the plants and |
| comes to removing weeds and working in a | | | | soil the water that they need. |
| vegetable garden. This lightweight instrument is | | | | Locate the greenhouse in a healthy dose of |
| perfectly suited for cultivating the soil in both | | | | sunlight. All-day sunlight is best, but morning |
| flower beds and veggie plots. People depend upon | | | | sunlight coming from the east side would do for |
| a prying bar to help them remove stones and | | | | most plants. Morning sunlight allows the plant's |
| rocks from their freshly tilled soil. This makes the | | | | food production process known as photosynthesis |
| work of gardening much easier to handle. The | | | | to start early such that growth becomes |
| wheelbarrow is like having an assistant helping you | | | | maximized. Lighting supplies contribute just the |
| ?fetch and carry? compost, blocks, mulch and | | | | right amount of heat and moisture for plants to |
| other items to the different areas where they | | | | thrive. |
| are needed. Because mulch and compost is | | | | Tools need a storage shed so that they can be |
| required in so many bedding areas around the | | | | arranged neatly and be protected from rain and |
| yard a wheelbarrow is considered a very essential | | | | snow. Storage sheds can be used for gardening |
| piece of gardening equipment. | | | | tasks as well. If your shed is large enough you |
| To protect hands from chapping, cuts and | | | | could even place a potting bench. This would give |
| scratches, most gardeners prefer to use | | | | you some additional storage space and the |
| gardening gloves. These can keep your hands and | | | | smooth work surface could be used for a variety |
| fingernails free from dirt and protect expensive | | | | of chores including re-potting your plants. When |
| manicures. You can find gloves that are | | | | the day ends it is time for all happy gardeners to |
| waterproof and others that are made from | | | | call it a night, put things away and prepare for a |
| heavy leather, It is up to you to select the ones | | | | new day. |