Garden tools: basic types

Everyone who has his own plot of land, needs garden tools. And the size of the garden does not matter, tools for working on it are needed in any case, even if there is a variety of specialized equipment. In this case, the garden tools play an auxiliary function or the main one in those works where the use of mechanized equipment is impossible. All hand tools for the garden can be divided into large and small.

The first includes forks, shovels, rakes, brush cutters, large garden scissors, braids. The second group includes hoes, pruners, sickles, knives, baking powder, scoops, saws. On a number of instruments this division is rather conditional, for example, a delimbant, can have both large and small size.

In addition, to increase productivity, garden tools can be not only manual, but also mechanized, with a gasoline or electric power drive.

The first - more powerful, efficient, the second is not so productive, but light and ecological. The most popular among modern gardening tools, which are part of the mechanized garden tools, are trimmers, gasoline and electric cars, cultivators. They greatly facilitate the hardest work.

Gardening equipment includes a lot of tools and equipment for irrigation. These include ordinary watering cans, hoses, buckets, sprayers, sprayers, and pumps with a different type of drive. If there is no electricity supply on the site, the modern summer resident decides this problem with the help of small mobile generators using gasoline or diesel fuel. Their power is sufficient for both powering the power tool and for lighting. Sprayers and sprayers, in addition to providing moisture to plants, are used to combat various pests. To do this, instead of water, they use chemical solutions.

We must not forget the gardener and various auxiliary tools. To mark up and organize the beds you will need a tape measure and an ordinary cord stretched for a landmark. Wipe the wounds on the trunks of trees and instill them with a special knife. To tie the branches you need clamps, wire and pliers. In order to be convenient to harvest, a container specially adapted for these purposes is needed.

Very opportunely for a number of works will have a conventional folding chair, especially for painstaking and lengthy processes. An irreplaceable assistant for the gardener is the wheelbarrow, it is necessary for transportation of the earth, manure, export of a crop and dust. To collect apples, plums and other fruit and berry crops, growing on trees or tall bushes, you will need a stepladder, since it is dangerous to use a chair or stool.

The inventory listed above covers only the main types of garden tools. In addition, depending on the purpose, it can be divided into smaller groups. For example, a shovel can be bayonet, shovel, pointed, rectangular or round. In order for the tool to serve for a long time and properly, it is necessary to organize storage of garden tools in specially adapted buildings or premises.