Well, it finally happened. I have become a mom and dad combination with joints that don't work the way they did at 18.
I remember my mother kneeling in the garden, pulling out weeds and struggling to level them. Dad's knees were fine, but his back was bent as he picked the beans.
When we're young, it never seems to happen to us and it's easy to just be on our knees with nothing to support us.
Rescue tools for the garden! I just bought a park bench, got down on one knee, picked some weeds, and said, "I need to take Tylenol" as fast as I could.
Gardeners love our tools and accessories. Below is the required list.
- It is not necessary to use a rootstock, large or small, but it can help prepare the soil in a garden or flower bed. Scoop works well in small spaces or raised beds.
- Plant a long hoe in your vegetable garden or grow tomatoes and grow other plants. The type of plant hoe is different from the lawn hoe, which I will cover in the next section.
- Twine, twine and wooden sticks are used to create straight rows in the garden.
- A hand trowel is useful for planting individual plants.
- For planting trees and shrubs, the shovel can be sharpened with high-quality steel, which makes drilling easier.
- A quality hoe is valuable, and the best type of weeder often surprises people. Instead of the large, knobby blades used in agriculture, the best grass blades have very narrow blades that glide across the surface of the soil. A quality ax costs more, but it has a steel blade that can be sharpened to a sharp edge, making cutting with an ax easier and more efficient.
- Short-handled tools are essential for weed control near vegetable or vegetable rows. Japanese tools are classic, including hori-hori knives and machetes. Made of high quality steel, glides easily on the floor.
- If there are no other precise tools, I use a table knife, which allows for precise removal.
- An old butcher's knife with a long blade is well suited for deep cutting dandelions and other herbs from perennial beds and landscaping. You can buy dandelion diggers, both long and short handled, but some butcher knives dig deep into the roots.
- If the garden is medium or large, a wheeled hoe is suitable for working between rows of vegetables.
- The long arm four tine cultivator can loosen the soil after rain, prevent soil cracking, retain moisture and kill weeds.
- Fan-shaped rake. If your fingers are strong, remove excess leaves from the spring grass.
- Garden rakes have small heavy metal forks for leveling soil or seeding.
- One or two liter pump sprayers are useful for applying pesticides, fungicides and herbicides in gardens and parks. I keep a syringe for insecticides, fungicides and herbicides only.
- Hose sprayers are an easy way to apply product over large areas. The product is added to the nebulizer and adjusted to the indicated dose.
- Hand loopers are a versatile tool for trimming perennials, withered flowers, and twigs the size of a pencil in diameter or slightly larger.
- The long-handled pruner effectively cuts branches up to 1" in diameter. The long handles help guide the rose into the bush when pruning and make it easier to prune the bush at a young age.
- Branches larger than one and a half centimeters require pruning.
- Wrist pruners are especially handy for trimming the upper branches of an apple tree.
- Hedge clippers, whether manual or motorized, are used to formally trim hedges rather than individual shrubs, which can give them an unnatural and narrow spherical shape.
- Knees are essential when working on rocky or other hard surfaces.
- Knee benches not only soften the knees, but also help lift them off the ground. Some of them have compartments for storing tools.
- Garden carts make it easy to carry plant trays during planting.
- The all-important wheel can be used for everything from potted plants to weeding or removing excess soil.
