Show Your Favorite Gardening Tools.

mtoolman · **on:** October 11, 2018, 10:42:38 AM

What are some of your favorite gardening tools?
And why?

Poncho65 · **Reply #1 on:** October 11, 2018, 06:22:28 PM

I use a regular garden hoe for making furrows and planting seeds along with weeding my garden, a 4 prong cultivator to keep soil loose when I see the first signs of seedlings popping up and also use it to dip potatoeswhen they are ready, and Estwing claw hammer for driving stakes in for lines to keep my rows straight.

I like gardening and hopefully I will be able to do more of it when garden season comes around this next year

That was for vegetable gardening. I also have a set of shears for pruning and a folding saw for small limbs. I use these with the fruit trees I have and the grapes vines as well. I maintain my yard with these as well

mtoolman · **Reply #2 on:** October 12, 2018, 01:38:26 AM

Great. I used to have an EstWing Axe, and used to split logs with it. I sold it off, and got Fiskars Axe.

I was in the shed today, and I have small collection of garden handtools too.

I like cutting grass with sheers, scythe and manual push mower rather than electric or petrol mower.

So my favorite garden tool is a Bahco grass cutting shears, which works well.

It is good to cut grass even when it is raining, or 7 am in the morning too when you use shears and hand push mower.

Poncho65 · **Reply #3 on:** October 12, 2018, 11:39:41 PM

When I say maintain yard I guess I mean cutting all the lower limbs put of my way around the edge of my land

It would be a perpetual job to do anything but mow my yard with a gas mower

mtoolman · **Reply #4 on:** October 13, 2018, 01:20:42 AM

You must have huge lawn to cut

I can understand in that situation having to use gas powered mower.

But my lawn is size of a postage stamp. Maybe about 30ft by 20ft.
Grass in that land size could be cut with scissors in on hour.

I am going to try cutting the grass with scythe.

Yadda · **Reply #5 on:** October 17, 2018, 12:51:25 AM

Some of my favorite gardening hand tools.

Ron Who · **Reply #6 on:** October 17, 2018, 10:47:49 AM

Ron Who · **Reply #7 on:** October 31, 2018, 01:52:45 PM

mtoolman · **Reply #8 on:** November 05, 2018, 10:54:00 AM

Is it Felco secateur? Looks like it has seen a lot of action

mtoolman · **Reply #9 on:** November 05, 2018, 10:55:19 AM

I have the same Felco folding saw. A great saw indeed.

But my secateurs are from Wolf-Garten and Gardena, all made in Germany.

Ron Who · **Reply #10 on:** November 05, 2018, 05:01:04 PM

Quote from: mtoolman on November 05, 2018, 10:54:00 AM

Is it Felco secateur? Looks like it has seen a lot of action

Quote from: mtoolman on November 05, 2018, 10:55:19 AM

I have the same Felco folding saw. A great saw indeed.

But my secateurs are from Wolf-Garten and Gardena, all made in Germany.

Yes, Felco #2 secateurs. The pic above it shows the Opinel secateurs and saw #12.

The Felco saw is new, it has yet to see some use. Both the Opinel and Felco secateurs are top of the bill. I have used Gardena and Wolf Garten tools as well, they seem to be geared to occasional use rather than professional. Nevertheless, they are pretty good.

twiliter · **Reply #11 on:** November 24, 2018, 10:39:32 PM

Felco 2, er, too...

Syncop8r · **Reply #12 on:** November 24, 2018, 11:36:22 PM

Cheap 3-tyne cultivator, Atlas grubber, Bahco secateurs, Bahco folding saw.

smiller43147 · **Reply #13 on:** November 28, 2018, 02:39:06 AM

Pretty much all my gardening tools. Favorite is the large loppers on the left. Anvil, not bypass, so they cut clean and don't jam up.

smitsith · **Reply #14 on:** November 15, 2021, 02:53:37 PM

Oh man, I have so many that I don't even know where to choose from haha.

smitsith · **Reply #15 on:** November 16, 2021, 10:12:59 AM

Oh man, I have so many that I don't even know where to choose from haha. I'm blessed to have a husband that shares the same hobby as me and we're actually gardening together. I can't even explain how nice it feels to be next to a person that understands everything about this, since gardening can be boring to many people. Last week, he has bought me a weed puller from LINK REMOVED because I kept telling him that I'm sick of doing this with my hands. I've almost cried because I wasn't expecting anything like this. I should get him a gift as well