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FAQs
Finding the right garden tools makes gardening easy, but it’s essential to care for your tools, as well as your garden.
Use blade sharpeners in a single direction and on just one side of secateurs or shears to maintain their effectiveness. Traditionally, garden tools were sharpened on whetstones, which helped to lubricate and smooth hardened steel tools. Today, most gardening tools are made from carbon or stainless steel, which helps them last longer, but they still need sharpening.
Pruning can be really quite fun with the right tools, but it can also pass infection between plants. Before and after pruning, wash your tools down with soap and water, then dry them thoroughly before storing them somewhere dry. When pruning blight or canker, clean your tools between each plant by dipping them into a mild detergent solution.
An organised shed is a happy shed, so take your time with this task. Once you’ve bought your new tools, consider what you will use most often and what takes up the most space. Spades and secateurs should take pride of place, while rakes, tree saws, and other tools used annually can be neatly stored to avoid clutter.
The most important tools and equipment for any garden are those that keep it tidy. Bulky tools, like tree pruners and spades, are great for big jobs, but the must-have garden tools are simply basic hand tools like trowels, garden bags, rakes, and secateurs which are perfect for tending flower beds, shrub pruning, and deadheading roses.
Tree saws and bypass loppers should be part of any gardener’s arsenal. Without them, you have no way to prune mature branches safely. Rakes and garden bags are essential for deciduous trees to gather all that valuable compost material and, perhaps most importantly, a spade. Because how else are you going to plant all of your new trees?