Gardening

Essential tools for the newbie gardener

Having the responsibility for maintaining a garden for the first time is an exciting prospect but it can also be a quite costly if you are starting from scratch in terms of purchasing gardening tools and equipment. Buying the essentials need not be expensive however with a bit of savvy online shopping.

The first thing to identify is which tools are needed for your garden, for example if there is a lawn then a lawnmower will be needed. A pair of shears may be useful for cutting the edge of the lawn where it meets a fence or wall to keep the edge looking neat and tidy and a quality pair of secateurs are invaluable for pruning back shrubs.

A spade is probably going to be needed if there are any flower beds to dig over but when it comes to weeding a hoe can make weeding between plants easier. Smaller tools such as trowels and forks are good when planting out young plants and for planting in pots and planters on a patio area.

Before buying new tools a look on social media selling sites is a wise move as it could be that someone who previously had a garden no longer has one and so is selling their tools. This is a much cheaper way of obtaining the essential garden tools a new gardener will need.