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For the Best Gardeners in the Cardiff Area

   Mar 12

Your Questions About Gardening

Helen asks…

What are the essential tools for a beginning gardener?

I have a friend who is wanting to start gardening in her bare backyard. Her birthday is coming up and I want to put together a little package of essential gardening tools. I don’t know anything about gardening myself, so please help!

GardenersCardiff answers:

I am a long time gardener, and I own a variety of tools, each does a specific job. If your friend is going to plant roses or shrubs, a pair of hand pruners would be welcome (about $12).

A shovel is great (I only use short handled ones, I like that type best). $8 – $15

Small tools like a trowel and a hand hoe are nice (I never use a big hoe,it’s too much work). $5 – 10

And gloves. Nice, leather gloves, the thinner the better ($10).

A metal rake, the kind for moving soil or small rocks as opposed to the floppy leaf rake. I love to use a heavy rake to smooth out planting beds. $8 – 12

A good book on gardening, preferably organic gardening would be the best gift of all. $20

There are some excellent gardening forums in cyber land too, with people who have all sorts of know how.

If you shop around, you might find very cheap garden tools as stores tend to try to get rid of all that stuff by the end of summer.

I can garden anywhere with gloves, a shovel, a rake and a trowel. I can only prune things if I have snips, so those are the basics, for me (been gardening a long, long time).

Donna asks…

can recomend gardening tools which brand are good?

GardenersCardiff answers:

Sears Craftsmen

Michael asks…

Which gardening tool to use for pulling weeds?

I have three tools: Jimmy, age 9, good at PE and lunch in school, my husband Terry, 43, good for nothing except after the annual Christmas party when he’s good for 8 minutes, and Jenny, age 16, going on 23, good at doing her hair for 2 hours prior to going to school in the morning.

They are all tools, which is best to use in eradicating weeds from my tulip bed?
But Drizzt, my husband can probably do it in 8 minutes. It just wouldn’t be thorough.

GardenersCardiff answers:

Use them all, but be delicate:

Terry – liquor him up and have him pull weeds at a fever pitch for 8 minutes, the let him lie in the garden to sleep it off.

Jimmy next – bury a grilled cheese sandwich in the dirt and he’ll basically till your garden looking for it.

Jenny – have her tell the neighborhood boys that the first one to remove all the weeds gets to cop a feel on her.

You will have zero weeds left after this phase 3 deployment of your tools.

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