Best Garden Tools

Perhaps the most used tool in the garden. Simple, elegant and with a knack of going missing, these are the perfect tool for taking care of unruly brambles, or cutting tree stems so as to develop growth.

With any kind of traditional pruner or secateur in your gardening tool kit, you’re on the right track.

A trifecta of hand tools, to finish off a handy top three! Garden hand tool sets normally consist of a fork, and then either a combination of two different trowels, or a trowel and then another tool, sometimes a wonderfully named “widger”.

This set of three prepares you nicely for planting and tidying up beds.

From the mighty, to the mini, but just as useful. You get a lot more out of your plots and beds if you’re organised. The simplest way to stay organised is with some wooden plant labels. Knowing what is planted where allows you to maximise space.

Top tip: write when you sowed your seeds as this will let you know when to harvest them, or for quick growing rotational crops like spinach, when you need to plant the next batch!

Gardening is a great way to get active, but it’s also a killer on the back and knees. Barrows will help you when you’re moving heavy bits and bobs about, but when you’re doing odd little jobs, a padded garden kneeler is just the ticket.

The best thing about one of these folding kneelers, is that they double up as a chair. So when you’re having a cup of tea after a bit of graft, you’ve got somewhere to sit too!

Mowing the lawn, cutting back branches or tidying up the leaves; all gardening jobs that create “waste”. So why not turn that waste into something useful? Creating your own compost is a fantastic way to provide extra nutrients to your plants.

It can take a bit of experimentation to get your compost mix right, but it’s worth it in the end. So get yourself a rotating composter, and create your own fully organic garden!