Omg I was JUST researching this to figure out what basics I could really use as I get more serious about my gardening. Thank you so much for reading my mind and making this video!
One of my favorite gardening tool is an old screwdriver I found in the garage after we bought our house. It's long and sturdy and I use it to remove weeds from my garden. I also use it to dig in and loosen up the soil when I am planting small new plants. Awesome video and great tools from Corona!
I’m a minimalist when it comes to garden tools. Love to get my hands in the dirt though. My go to tools are shovels and prunes. Maybe a couple others if needed.
We just finished our raised beds and are planting in them this weekend. My husband has all of these tools in the shed! Woohoo!! Not sure I should admit this but the pruning shears...yea those are in our junk drawer inside bc I always thought they were some kind of pliers.
I love garden tools. I love the wheel Barrell and the oscillating hoe. The sharpen is very handy. i need to get one of those. I could probably use it in the kitchen as well. Your video makes me want to go out and get all the tools. I am sure I could find some use for them. Thanks.
When kevin said I am somewhat tall and a bit lazy. I thought no you are far from lazy lol you have a whole beautiful garden that you tend to. Great video!
My Corona brand Ratchet Pruner is the one of my absolute favorite tools. I use it for hacking back the invasive vines and shrubs that have invaded the forest around my yard. It fits in my back pocket and easily cuts through branches bigger than my thumb.
@@WildnUnruly Par for the course in this part of Canada. Green energy -- Germany's solar panels covered in snow, windmills not working either. Fired up the coal plants. Should see the pictures of helicopters dumping buckets of deicing fluid on windmills to try to get them going
If I recommend one thing it would be the stirrup hoe. Mine would even dig in a 1/2 inch and cut off roots and weeds barely came back. Even works to till up a small trench for seeds! Amazing tool!
One tip *I* have to share: I really love stainless steel tools. I'm, if I'm honest, kind of lazy and careless, at times, so I absolutely love having tools that don't need to be babied, that can never rust no matter what. Fully stainless steel tools don't necessarily cost that much either, which I was pleasantly surprised by. Definitely a worthwhile investment, if you ask me.
Looking great at your new spot! Great gardening advice for the newbies! I have to chime in for more of the advance gardners out there, imo the following tools cant be matched after years of running a commercial landscaping business and nursery you learn what works and last..... Felco 2 cant be beat! King of spade ( one piece blue welded deep spades..cuts through anything) ...brentwood wheelbarrows , little more upfront cost pays off ten fold with quality tools. Seed supply stores and Amish farms around here in Lancaster Pennsylvania has the cream of the crop tools for anyone demanding quality. Skip Depot and Lowes lets kick it back to the little man..lol!!
One other thing to mention is storage space. I have both, a rounded spade, and a square one, but I got the short type with the stirrup handle. Not only do they store in smaller space, but I take the square one in the car trunk, if I get stuck in snow.
You should make a new series in which you go and help new gardeners correct gardening mistakes. "A Garden Makeover" if you will Love your channel🧡 Keep doing great stuff 👍
Good to know that Corona makes a little blade sharpener. If you purchase loppers, make sure they have a hinge on them. They will truly be your best friend and you won't have to use as much of your own torquing power to make cuts. The pitch fork is helpful when sod busting.
One of my fave and most used tool is a Hori Hori, but I love the more knife style version over the trowel style such as the one from Niwaki, dig, cut, chop or use to make seed drills. The perfect garden tool.... Loved the video Kevin... I do need to invest in an oscillating hoe this year
I'm growing in an apartment with a 2nd story balcony, but I'm in Gatineau, Quebec. This winter has absolutely sucked, very low light, constant freezes and thaws, I lost many indoor plants before I got a grow light. Anyways right now on my balcony I have a hemlock tree, a spruce bush, a pine tree and a lavender plant, all about 4 feet tall with the pot. Only real gardening tools I have are a couple pointy sticks and a Fiskars' knife/shears combo thing, but my greatest ally so far has been vermiculite lol
I LOVE the Corona FS 3214D ComfortGEL Leaf & Stem Micro Snips. I got them for Christmas, and I have found it to be my new guilty pleasure to pinch pentas with it
Your garden is looking great! Can I ask a dumb question? I have mulch on my plants (thanks for the tip), when you fertilize, do you move the mulch or sprinkle the fertilizer on top of it?
@@epicgardening I prefer to sprinkle on top. Some of the fertilizer, particularly the nitrogen, is temporarily taken up by the mulch and becomes slow release. Also it saves me time with a 1 acre lot with an orchard.
I love hearing experienced gardener's opinions on tools. I'm a beginner, and I have my pruners from my houseplants that will do double-duty, my rake, my hose, and my spade (that pointed shovel). Just moved in the last 4 months, didn't get my first bed done until after the first frost. C'mon spring!
I've been building out my own custom raised garden bed for a month, and I can't wait to use it. Sometimes you just have to be patient. Good luck on your garden.
@@maggiemanzke7926 I'm zone 10B, but right now we are prepping our yard and building out a lot of raised bed gardens, so we really don't have much growing yet.
For new gardeners having to cope with heavy clay soil, a mattock is extremely handy, as spades or shovels will be hard work. A kink-resistant hose worth splurging on, don't frustrate yourself by thinking you're saving money on a cheap hose. Totally agree that the best garden watering is done by hand, not automated. If your soil is hygroscopic, give it a light sprinkle to break the water tension, then return later to give it a deep soak. To save water, water the feeder roots of shrubs or trees, not the base of the plant, & wait till they droop before watering to toughen them up. If you're on a strict budget, you'll get by using scissors for tip pruning or cutting salad leaves/fruits. Loppers are great, but if cutting back very dense bushes, it's difficult to get the handles open enough while wanting cut out larger branches. As you've pointed out, pruning saws are very useful but I've sped things up using a cordless reciprocating saw, which is a popular multi-purpose handyman tool anyway. Your dual wheel barrow is the ultimate, but would be pricy. Maybe use a log carrier until funds allow, rather than waste money & risk injury with cheap barrows. For the elderly (like me), you'll love grippy gloves as you won't have to grip as hard when pulling weeds etc. If you're absent minded (like me), dexterous cut resistant gloves will save you some flesh. They're readily available from on-line safety outlets & very reasonably priced. In the interest of economy, don't buy anything that's sold in larger pots, or if you have to, give the pot a squeeze to check if it's root-bound. 👍🇦🇺
2:12 bypass pruners - beter for green part of plant, non bypass pruners ar beter for wooden part of plant (mostly busches/roses). It is worth considering the "force transfer" model, especially if it will be used for woody parts.
I wish I could send you some of my leaves. I have four monster maple trees and it takes me like six hours at least once sometimes twice in the fall to rake them to the curb. Luckily the town crew picks them up. I saved a little and put on my garden. Just need bags of composted manure on top now. 🖤 Hey I just noticed you're almost to 1 mil! How exciting!!
Nice video! I love garden tools, chinese tea ware, and musical instruments! My tips: Go with biointensive beds and opt for a square shovel for digging those. Include a digging fork or broad fork
Thank you so much for this video! I have always wanted to get a break down of the best basic tools you should have, the differences between them, and how to keep them sharp. Happy New Year!
Since i ditched edged raised beds, got myself tools to work the soil and to weed. Much quicker than pulling every weed by hand. My set of essential tools: cutter mattock for deep decompaction and also useful for digging out bushes etc 3 tine cultivator for regular decompaction/weeding/de-crusting between rows 1 tine cultivator for fine weeding work between plants soil tilther and soil prep rake to make and maintain rows before planting. the back of the rake is actually useful, unlike those cheap and heavy rakes. secateurs mainly for cutting woody stems medium size snips that do most of the cutting and trimming of plants planting knife, which can dig planting holes or to cut off tough thick stems like cabbage syphon injection system. i just have the hose connecting kind for now. sure beats mixing fertilizer and carrying one watering can at a time. with a well chosen set of tools and methods, you have more time to do what's most important, keep new plant starts coming and keep them moist. also keep garden clean of debree and sick plants etc. Keep a bucket each for green and non-green rubbish collection. might sound like a lot of work but is not. each job is done efficiently. no more wasting time making composts, collecting and chopping compost materials, or making silly potions of unknown nutritional efficacy.
My mom bought me these adorable mini shovels and rakes for my birthday (they are literally the size of a pencil) and I use them even though it’s not practical because they are so cute.
My favorite is my old big bucket, to carry tools round the garden, to hold the weeds while weeding from place to place, to put cuttings in and then lug them to the compost heap or to collect moulding leaves where there are too many and use as a cover elsewhere to cool plants cooler.
Thank you for all the great videos. While watching this one I spied the most interesting trelis in the background at 8:22. It looks like PVC and goes into a bucket. What is it? Whats growing on it? Did you do a video on it that I missed? If you didn't can you do one and fill us in on the interesting trelis? Thank you.
Do you find that the second wheel on the wheelbarrow affects how nimble it is? Or does the extra stability improve control when you have to make a sharp turn? I have a lot of tight spaces and twisty paths in my yard.
Imo the loss of agility is minor compared to the dumping stability, and my older body appreciates the second wheel's rolling stability. One wheel stuck in a rut? Use the second one to maneuver it out!
For me a retractable hose reel is an essential tool in the garden. I grew up not knowing what it was until I got my own place and the previous owner had retractable hose reels installed. I am never going back to a traditional hose.
About a year ago I saw you using the Oscillating Hoe and had no idea what it was! I ended up buying a Dutch Hoe and using it in a similar way. It is so much more satisfying than pulling small weeds :) Best investment! I am also considering buying a cultivator to turn compost. Not sure which will be the best one though (how many prongs, shape of them, dual head with spade on the other side).
Some one gave me a pair of Corona pruners. Never heard of the brand nor did the person who gave them to me. When I researched the brand I was surprised that somebody would give away these pruners. Pruners had a ding, must have been used to cut wire. I was able to file it down and they work fine. Great tool for anyone with arthritis in their hands.
Those raised garden beds are Awesome! Are they custom made? Perhaps you have a contact you could refer? Cheers and keep up the great "down to earth" uploads! Many thanks B!
Hey Kevin! A request for a neem oil episode. I have used it with some success and am sure I am missing information about it. I’d love to hear what more you, The Epic Gardener, can add. 😊 Thank you for sharing your vast knowledge on so many topics!
I'm glad I stumbled upon this...thank you. I have most of them but I call them different names...😆 I'm glad you brought to light their real names. I'm getting an osalating hoe tomorrow..can't wait, never seen one of those.
About the last tip, in the words of Chef Jacques Pepin, blade edges are made of teeth, so when you use your knife, the teeth get out of whack. You are not sharpening the blade, you're keeping it sharp by re-aligning the teeth. Eventually, the teeth get worn out and you need a grinding stone (coarse, medium, fine...) and spend some time to groove in new teeth. One of my best tools: a notebook. Everytime I think I'll remember...
Was looking forward to seeing what tools you have! Im a big fan of the dutch hoe over the oscillating hoe. A bit more robust and can really power into thick stemmed weeds.
Thanks for the video! I've got to get one of those folding hand saws! Also, I'm putting in a brand new raised garden in my backyard! I would not feel so confident about it if it wasn't for you and Laura from Garden Answer. I'll be sure to tag you and her on IG when I post pictures. Thanks so much for all you do!
You need to keep all square spades sharp... NOTHING replaces that in my landscape business... NOTHING. It is the best digging shovel when sharp, it has the best control of all shovels. Only use a round point shovel when moving bulk gravel once in awhile!
Went to a volunteer camp for teens. There was a distinct lack of tools for ground clearing. Really wish I had that folding saw, but *sigh* my 4 knives did well enough. Had to sharpen them after though.
1.Hand trowel-used for loosening the soil around the growing plants. 2.water hose-a flexible tube which Carrie water and is used to water plants. 3.rake-is used for cleaning the ground and leveling the topsoil use for collecting dried leaves,grass and dirt.
If you have waning grip strength, "aviation snips" are a good, force multiplying alternative to pruning shears. You want the yellow handled ones; they cut straight.
Hi everybody! last week I poke the hose with a 4 prongt fork 😂😪 any suggestions so I can repair it? it is just one hole and the hose has only one year since we change it. Appreciate the help, thanks! Love the content 👍🏼
You should do an advanced gardener tool list. I have all these and want to buy new/more tools but I'm not sure what would be most useful and what would end up sitting in the shed unused because I don't know what to use it for
#1 tool is a good hat that blocks light on all sides. A washable one because it’s going to get stanky. #2 a gorilla cart with 4 wheels instead of the basic wheel barrel.Easy to pull and dump things out. You don’t have to balance it either. Super convenient
