A garage can easily get cluttered with all the various landscape maintenance equipment needed to keep a landscape healthy, clean, safe, attractive, and well manicured. But do you really need all those tools?
I am sure we are familiar with shovels, rakes, and trowels. Almost every home has at least one variation of landscape maintenance equipment stored in their garage or garden shed.
First the shovel, it is necessary for turning the soil, digging holes for new plantings or any other garden job that involves creating large or small holes. Secondly are the rakes.
Two rakes, a large one and a small one, make a good addition to a landscape maintenance equipment storage shed. For the huge job of cleaning up all those fall leaves you would need a large rake. The smaller rake is for the intricate task of cleaning debris from around delicate flowers.
A large and small trowel will be needed also. The smaller hand trowel is used in the spring to plant small seedlings. A longer handled trowel is needed for making rows in a vegetable garden.
The home gardener would also need a set of shears and pruners. The shears would be for keep neatly trimmed hedges and bushes. The pruners are used for the larger job of cutting back the dead branches from fruit trees to allow new growth during the next growing season.
Another important piece of landscape maintenance equipment would be the wheelbarrow or wagon. These can aid in moving various plants, bushes, trees and rocks to the desired location. This tool, can be helpful in saving the user from back injury due to heavy lifting.
A garden wagon or wheelbarrow is great for moving trees, bushes, sod, large landscape rocks or fertilizer from area to another. You can mix a small amount of cement in a wheelbarrow for those small repair jobs around the patio or yard. These are available in various sizes also. This tool has saved my back on more than one occasion.
Do you have a large piece of property? If so you would need a ride-on lawnmower. If you just have a small side yard to mow a small push mower would do the job. Most people need an in between size power mower. The power mowers are very versatile. They can be used for cutting the lawn, clearing brush, mulching, and even to pick up the leaves.
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