Gardening can be a relaxing and enjoyable pastime. However, you can complicate matters if you don’t have the right gardening tools for the right terrain. If you live in the suburbs or the country, your garden tools are going to differ from the ones you’d use if you had less space.
For example, if you live in the city, you’d likely have to work in a severely restricted space. That doesn’t mean that you can’t have a garden, though. All you need are the right gardening tools.
Table of Contents
Planters and towers
In the suburbs and the country, you have space to spread out. Not so if you live in a house in the city or an apartment. Your backyard, if you have one at all, it is liable to be tiny.
To create gardening space out of nothing, purchase planters, and towers. Planters are containers that allow you to hold dirt, thus creating planting space. Towers, meanwhile, are like growers stacked one on top of the other.
Both come in a variety of designs. You are sure to find one that will appeal to you. To find the best urban gardening gear on the market, you’ll need to look around and see what suits you and matches the decor and the look you want for your garden.
You’ll also have to do your research and compare brands and performance over time to see what works best for you.
Garden trowel
A garden trowel is one of the most versatile gardening tools. You can use it for digging holes to plant seeds. You can use it to dig up soil to get it more oxygenated. You can remove old roots, even do some cutting.
They come in different sizes and materials, so if you need a smaller one to work with your particular garden space, there’s likely to be a size available.
Hand cultivator
A hand cultivator is the next garden multi-tasker. You can use it to turn the soil. You can use it to remove weeds. You can even use it. It can be used to break up tough soil.
Like the garden trowel, it is available in different materials and sizes, so you can get one that suits the size of your garden. Even better, they tend to come in sets with the garden trowel, so you can avoid buying them separately.
Pruner
Just so you know, this is one of the gardening tools that are also available in sets with your garden trowel and hand cultivator. Pruners are necessary to help keep your plant growth in check and in order.
If you are cultivating flowers, you can use your pruner to keep your blooms from spreading uncontrollably.
You can also trim unhealthy parts of a plant off. You can also use them to shape your bushes and shrubs the way you want them to grow.
Gardening gloves
Aside from arranging the plants in your garden, you may also have to clean your garden water fountains every once in a while. You’ll have your gloves to protect you from becoming grimy and taking dirt into your home.
Beyond this, the soil is home to organisms that can make you ill or even kill you if they ever have the opportunity to enter your skin through a cut. Gloves form a difficult to penetrate layer over your hands and prevent them from breaking through.
If you grow plants with thorns, such as roses, it may be wise to use gloves when handling branches to prevent yourself from being cut. Same if plants in your garden have poisonous sap. You don’t want that getting on your hands and then accidentally transferred to something you were eating or drinking.
Watering can
If you have a small urban garden, a garden hose may be too large and inconvenient to use it. You can get yourself a watering can. First of all, for many people, watering cans bring back pleasant memories of their grandparents puttering around in their gardens.
Secondly, watering cans can be a personal gardening fashion statement because they come in such an array of colors and shapes and colors, you can get something you truly like.
Last but not least, your garden needs water. You can get a watering can that allows you to make a few trips between your plants and your water source.
Storage bag
Many people who live in urban areas hardly have space for a traditional garden tool shed. However, not to worry because you can purchase a garden tool bag specially made for this purpose.
Garden tool bags can be placed discreetly in the corner of your closet and not take up more of the space you don’t have.
There you are. You’re set. Purchase these necessary tools for your garden, and you’ll be absolutely set to create and maintain your garden space.
Featured Photo by Jonathan Meyer from Pexels
