| We all like to make our jobs easier and having the | | | | Landscape maintenance equipment used for |
| right landscape maintenance equipment would | | | | pruning is also very necessary and should be |
| make keeping our landscape beautiful simpler. | | | | readily available. Shears are great for shaping a |
| Below we have detailed descriptions of some of | | | | hedge and keeping it looking neat and tidy. Pruners |
| the most basic and important tools every home | | | | are needed during the time of the year that you |
| gardener should have in their shed. | | | | want to severely trim back trees. This is |
| I am sure we are familiar with shovels, rakes, and | | | | especially important for fruit trees to bear a good |
| trowels. Almost every home has at least one | | | | crop of fruit in their next cycle. |
| variation of landscape maintenance equipment | | | | A garden wagon or wheelbarrow is great for |
| stored in their garage or garden shed. | | | | moving trees, bushes, sod, large landscape rocks |
| First the shovel, it is necessary for turning the soil, | | | | or fertilizer from area to another. You can mix a |
| digging holes for new plantings or any other | | | | small amount of cement in a wheelbarrow for |
| garden job that involves creating large or small | | | | those small repair jobs around the patio or yard. |
| holes. Secondly are the rakes. Both shovels and | | | | These are available in various sizes also. This tool |
| rakes come in different sizes. A small rake is | | | | has saved my back on more than one occasion. |
| needed for maintaining neat flower beds by raking | | | | Finally, the lawnmower, this is a basic piece of |
| dead leaves from around delicate flowers and | | | | landscape maintenance equipment that every |
| small bushes. A large rake will be needed for the | | | | home has and is used for maintaining a beautiful |
| huge job of clearing the multitude of leaves from | | | | lawn. Again, the lawnmower comes in a variety of |
| the lawn that descend in the fall. Thirdly are | | | | sizes depending on the size of your lot. We own a |
| trowels. Trowels are available with long or short | | | | ride-on lawnmower because we have over an |
| handles. A hand trowel will have a short handle | | | | acre of green area to maintain. Most lawnmowers |
| suitable for planting small flowers or vegetables | | | | come with different attachments that can be |
| plants. A larger trowel with a long handle is great | | | | used to cut lawn, pick up leaves, and mulching |
| for creating beds. | | | | jobs. |