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Gardening Equipment,
Clothing, and Tools
While growing vegetables and gardening are simple, the right tools, materials, and other gear make the job easier:
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- Tools: Hand and power tools for digging, troweling, carrying, cutting, pruning, pouring, raking, and spreading.
- Implements: Containers, pots, bedding trays, totes, measuring spoons and cups, funnels, and other gear.
- Materials: Fertilizers, amendments, potting soil medium, additives, soaps, oils, and plant health mixes.
- Clothing: Shoes, clogs, boots, gloves, hats, and kneelers.
- Protective Equipment: Sun screen, safety glasses, masks or respirators, and first-aid kits.
Tools Gardeners Need
The number of essential tools needed to grow vegetables is limited to a basic set found in most gardening households.
There are many other useful, unique and enticing tools, equipment, aids and materials beyond those few that will to help you prepare your soil, plant, and care for your vegetable garden.
Hand Tools. Those who garden in containers and small-scale beds should have a good set of hand tools.
They include a trowel, hand fork, and cultivator—plus a watering can and a pair of bypass pruners. If you wish, a small shovel and a plastic spray bottle is all you’ll need to succeed in vegetable gardening.
Stout waterproof or leather gloves will protect skin from abrasions and blisters.
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Major Tools. Those with a larger garden of rows, raised beds or terraces should add a shovel, a rake, a hoe, and a garden cart or wheelbarrow to the collection.
Also add a dibber to aid in planting onion and garlic bulbs, and a kneeling pad of soft foam rubber to ease the task of weeding.
Optional Equipment. In addition to the basic tools, large-scale gardeners also may need a garden tiller, waterproof boots or clogs, a garden fork, a cultivating tool and a garden cart or wheelbarrow.
Consider a hose-end or pump-pressure sprayer for applying garden chemicals, and a bucket. For irrigation, add soaker hoses, drip irrigation tubing, and emitters or fitting required to water the vegetables.
Besides the tools listed, an outdoor potting table is considered essential by many gardeners.
Those wishing to have an early start will likely need a cold frame, several cloches or hot caps, or a floating row cover to protect their plants from frost.
Care Materials. Stakes, trellises, and garden string will help support your plants. Lay in a good supply of organic fertilizer, soil amendments, potting soil, and mulch before the season begins so they will be handy once you begin to plant.
Organizing a Gardening Workspace
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