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Garden Tool: Weeder

When we mention ‘weeder’ there are two ways to define it. First, a weeder is considered as a farmhand who is hired by farm owner to remove weeds in the farm. Second, a weeder is considered as a farming or gardening product that is used to remove garden weeds or unwanted grasses.

The weeder is also [...]

Garden Tool: The String Trimmer

String trimmer is a gardening product (hand tool) that is used to trim the grasses or weeds. The string trimmer uses a thick line that looks like a nylon monofilament line that spins in a high speed and acts like a blade to cut off or trim the grasses or weeds.

There are three main [...]

Gardening Tool: Shovel And Spade

A shovel is a gardening product used to loosen or move materials like snows, soils or sands. It is also used for digging purposes. The shovel is used widely in construction field. However it is also a useful tool for the gardener.

The shovel consist of a long handle made from either steel or wood [...]

Garden Row Cover

A row cover is a gardening product that refers to anything that is used as protective cover to shield any type of plants. This is especially true for vegetable plants. It is used mainly to protect the plant from unwanted risk from cold, wind, sun or insects.

Many types of row covers are [...]

Rotary Tiller

Rotary tiller is a motorized cultivator that is used to work the soil through a rotating tines or blades. The rotary tiller is either self propelled or drawn as an attachment from behind through either a two wheel or four wheel tractor.

Sometimes the rotary tiller is also called rototiller or Rotavator. They both are [...]

Gardening Product: Rake

A rake is a gardening product used to pull and gather hay, leaves, dead grass or anything unwanted like the debris to one place.

Sometimes garden owners also use the rake to loosen the soil or use it for leveling the soil.

The rake looks like a pitchfork or a fork with bended tooth with a [...]

Gardening Products: Pruner

Pruner is a gardening product used to remove the twigs or little branches from plants, trees and shrubs. At a glance the pruner might look like a scissor but there is a difference.

The pruner is made so strong that it can cut hard branches easily. The smallest pruner can cut a branch of a [...]

Garden Plow (Plough)

The plow (plough) is a gardening product used in the garden for cultivating and preparing the soil for planting plants or vegetables.

The reason a gardener might use the plow is usually to turn the upper part of the soil to bring the bottom layer healthy soil up. In this way the newly layered soil [...]

Garden Hand Tool: Pitchfork

A pitchfork is a gardening product that is made of a long handle with a pointed tines that looks like a fork. The pitchfork is used to lift or pitch the garden’s waste materials such has fallen leaves, hays or dungs.

A typical pitchfork will have at least four tines separated by spaces it between [...]

Garden Hand Tool: Pickaxe

A pickaxe is a gardening product (gardening hand tool) made of a hard head attached in perpendicular manner to a long handle.

It looks like an axe and a hoe’s end combined together but the pickaxe is distinguished with one side head which has a flat end and a pick that has a sharper or [...]