5 Amazing Tools Every Gardener Needs 

Approaching 30… that’s adorable. ☺️😇 and suddenly, I feel so old!!! (The other day my 8 year was telling a story about from back when “he was a kid”). Lol.

Yes, a tool restoration video would be AWESOME.

Yes please to a tool restoration and sharpening video. You do such a great job explaining things.

Approaching 30. 😂😂😂 Still so young. You're my favorite guy on YT, amd the reason I have a garden!! ❤

My number 1 tool in the garden is a 2gal bucket from the paint section at home depot. It carries my tools, twine, clips, folded harvest bags, a small alcohol bottle and whatever else i need that day. I have back issues so its great doubling as a seat and using a mini pick instead of bending over with a regular mattock. Also keeps me from losing my marbles from misplacing a tool cause its all in there for the next day.

I’d love a tool restoration video Luke

"approaching 30"!!!! I've got socks on that!!👍🤟🤣 Thank you for what you do!

You crack me up Luke....don't blink people or you'll miss the tool he's showing you! I'll give you a little break tho' cuz it was cold outside! Would love to see tool restoration, but I do like purchasing tools w/life time warranties. My favourite tool is my Tiger Jaw brand Rotator Ratchet hand pruner that will cut a 1in branch with ease. 2nd is actually a kitchen tool from The Pampered Chef which is equivalent to your Fiskers snipers. I'm a new patio gardner in Aurora & you are my 'go to' channel if I hav a problem to solve. Love your energy & practical advice. Also nice to have a place to buy reliable seeds. I have some of your cool salad crops growing now. They look so pretty & I've had so much fun watching them grow so big that I've forgotten that I bo`t them to eat! Thanks also goes to your family for letting you spend so much time making such informative videos for us❣See you soon!

Awww ☺️ I’m almost 30 lol I haven’t seen 30 in 20 years. Your still young and your channel is great! So many more years to go

Yes! to a tool restoration video......that hori hori would be a great one. But I would also love to see something on sharpening and cleaning hand pruners, spades, shovels (I have a new garden so I use mine pretty regularly). Love your channel. It's real world gardening!

I have chosen my Christmas gift this year and found it on sale. The 1200 lb capacity Gorilla brand garden dump wagon. I've worked with my rusted, perpetual flat tire wheelbarrow for 10 years. I'll be 60 in a couple years and pushing/pulling a wheelbarrow is becoming too much. I'm so excited to get back to the garden in spring.

Hurray for my Hori Hori!! Best tool in my garden!

"Approaching 30?" This 71 year old got a chuckle out of that

I'm 65 I starting making raised beds 20 years ago there almost 24 inches off the ground and I'm so glad it's so much easier. Nice video Luke.

I was laughing at you reference to your age and the back pain. A tool that is designed ergonomically like the flat bladed hoe is a good example. Oh yeah, I have the Bare Bones hori hori and like you love it. I'd like to see a tool restoration video too. Btw, oiled handles on garden tools are best for preserving the wood and reducing the blisters a glossy finish will.give you. Interesting pruners.. I've never seen rhat model before. I use Felco pruners, all their parts are replaceable and with proper care they'll become something to pass down to the next generation. A good thing to remember is that investing in quality tools and taking good care on them saves money over time.

I have all those tools except the square hoe. My hori hori was bought from you!! It's always with me in the garden.

i just wanted to say thank you for fixing that payment error on the website. i'd have to reinsert my information three times before I got to the final payment.

I'm close to 70 & have had major back surgery so with my chronic pain, I can't work with regular sized shovels & hoe's.. Mu husband bought me the set of smaller sized tools. They look like teenagers that haven't grown up yet. lol The shovel only lifts half the amount of soil but they work great for my small stature. They'd probably break if I tried to dig a deep hole in dense soil though. That's what my strong hubby is for. ☺️ Thanks for the great tool tips!

Your hoary Hoary : I've been using a big old butcher knife to cut out the sprouting weeds in my beds. Just insert at a shallow angle and sweep it along - no picking small weeds - just skin the soil where they are growing. Works fast and like a charm.

I absolutely LOVE my Barebones hori hori knife!!

Great tools to have in a gardening tool inventory. I still need to get a garden hoe, it looks it could make weeding a lot easier and I love that Rambo knife😎

I have the exact same hori hori knife and it’s easily my most used garden tool! I’ve had it for 3 years and it’s held up extremely well. I actually gave one to my mom last year. Please do a restoration video!

Gee, you're almost 30! LOL, enjoy and wait till you're almost 80! I agree with your choices. My never-enter-without includes a Kearshaw enhanced opening pocket knife (useful if you're holding something with one hand and need to cut a string or wire tie for example), and my Felco pruners. They are a bit pricey but incredibly sturdy and handy. Use them constantly. They even have a slot for cutting wire. We're quite a ways south of you, zone 6b, so are able to do outdoor cool weather crops almost all winter. Keep doing your videos. I'm impressed that you're as dedicated as you are and even in my dotage I learn something every time.

Love your tools - don't own a hori-hori, but will look into it as it's so versatile! I have a long handled trowel....here in Canada we can buy them just at a local dollar store - and it's surprising quality! At that price I usually buy a couple to have a spare on hand....but they usually last me 3-4 years each anyway.... absolutely LOVE! I like the extra leverage they give, as well as less bending. I use as a mini-shovel sometimes.... Thanks for these excellent videos!

I bought myself a pair of Fiskar Micro-tip snips earlier this year, You suggested them in a video earlier this year, and I love them.

Turning 30!? Incredible all you have already accomplished! Can't wait to see what the next 10 years brings! 🥳

My go to tool has become a pick mattock. You can create rows with one side, and break up compacted soil with the other.

LOVE the Fiskars micro tips...I've used them for years and they stay sharp! Wish that guarantee covered misplacing them 😂

Yessssssss!! I love new tools!!!! I need to post some on my channel! I ordered so many seeds from you in the launch! Excited to get my packages!!!!!

Dibbler is one of my top tools. Has made planting and transplanting certain things so much easier.

1) You are approaching 30 and starting to experience back issues in the garden? Well, my friend... it doesn’t get any better in your mid 60’s! 😜. 2) I landed in the hospital and needed emergency surgery. Your notification about seeds for Kelsae onions came out during that time. By the time I came home 9 days later, seeds were SOLD OUT - again. I’ve been trying to get seeds for quite a while and even had a check be returned to me because they were sold out. 😢. (Three years - coming up on four.) 3) Any plans to release seeds for the Giant Crimson Tomato in 2022? Keep waiting and watching... 4) Glad to see MI GARDENER doing well. Best wishes for continued success! Kate in Olympia, WA

A hori hori is on my wish list for Christmas

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Nice! I think those pruners are Cate’s Garden brand because I have the same ones. I’d love tool restoration video! I’d love a video on sharpening pruners too

I also recommend a broadfork as a great garden tool to help loosen and break up soil without using a rototiller.

I love gardening. It opens you up to nature and what is most important

I, too, am approaching 30, and I feel you on the aches and pains that really have no business settling in at this age. Lol.

Hi Luke! You are my gardening hero. I have 5 3-year-old raised beds. You taught me how to amend my soil (the right way). You taught me how, and when, to plant, You taught me how to fertilize my plants, how to address garden pests, and how, and when, to harvest. I now successfully manage two crops - April-July/August and August-early December...and that's without covering (in Zone 5b, NH)! I learned which varieties of lettuce, spinach, brassicas, etc. seeds to buy that are cold-tolerant. My last harvest of lettuce and Swiss chard was mid-November and my last spinach harvest was yesterday. Cheers! ...and thank you!

You should look into putting a bone handle on your Hori Hori. I did mine 12 years ago and it still looks new.

Quality gifts, that will last :) A Pot plant!

Luke I like the garden trowel you have because of the good curve on it in Ireland I can only find the ones with a shallower curve and it's not really great for digging small holes for planting and really not good for when you try to fill a hanging basket with fresh compost you spill more than you try to shovel you would nearly be better off putting the compost into smaller bags and healing the bag into the hanging basket it slows you down. Great tool selection you have and the first tool you showed we call a Hoe a lot of people use that type for mixing large quantities of cement like a wheel barrow full thank you so much great tool selection

Thank you Luke! 🙂 Blessings! 💜

Yes tool restoration

When I cut my sunflowers in summer I used a pipe cutter. The clicking kind

Haha you got snow...lol...while it's 71 here in Kansas city 🤣 😄 😆

The back pain is real! It's what drew me to raised garden beds after resisting it all through my 20s. Investing in raised beds pays for itself in skipped chiropractor visits 🤣

Hahaha, if you think it's getting harder approaching 30, just wait, it gets worse. lol. So this is some great advice really, practice good ergonomics and practices which preserve your back etc. now and avoid injury and you will suffer less later on. Those old injuries WILL come back to haunt you, so yeah, work smarter, not harder.

Haha oooo he is approaching 30. Time to break out the cane. 😂😂

I absolutely love fiskars and they really do back their warranty. I probably have around 15+ fiskars tools for use on the farm. I could see a 3' trowel being perfect for my raised bed. Kind of like the military surplus 90° shovel with 2' handle. I have a great 30" pick/trencher with a trowel of sorts opposite of it both at 90° from the handle so it forms a T. Like a small mattock, kind of. All one piece steel construction other then the rubber/foam handle.

I really like a super sharp stirrup hoe and a horihori knife as my go to tools

Great video Luke! I have 3/5 of these tools and they are serving me just fine for now. Though the hori hori is tempting!

Absolutely love my Hori Hori & Fiskars!❤️

This was surprising an interesting video!

Lol❣️Yes, restoring video.

Great tool list & tips on the uses.

AM Leonard has a great soil knife...get the sheath that goes with it... it's sharp!

I really like this mini-shovel/knife tool. All these garden mini-shovels are mostly just waste of money. Unfortunately didn't see anything like it in our stores. The last one Fiscars is also great, want it. I have Fiscars lopper, it's awesome! :-)

A kind friend sent me that same hori hori knife as a gift! I'm very excited to put it to use at home and at my garden center job next spring!

Thank you Luke from Munster Indiana!

Wow 1st! I agree Luke practical gifts are awesome! Got a few garden items on my list for my husband hori hori must. Ty for more ideas 😉

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Thank you

Hori hori blades rock. Never knew about the Fiskars lifetime warranty. Thanks! 👍 😃

I wore down my Hori Hori serrated teeth edging my sidewalks and driveway and porch! Still I use it everywhere! Bought a 2nd one, now. So durable

Yes! Tool restoration video would be great 👍

"Approaching 30..." lol!

Yes, yes, tool restoration! I left my BB Hori Hori outside and forgot it most of the summer… SC - you become a vampire… it looks at we’ll love as yours after one season!

Will you do a show on Winter Sowing in plastic jugs? I have my Brassicas seeds for 2022 I just received from you and I’m itching to plant!

Larry great video as always!!! Great to see the snow! I'm gonna be your neighbor soon out in Malone! Gotta go shopping for seeds because one of the first things I'm getting up is a couple hoop houses n greenhouses.

The weather here in 8a SC Is so weird. 3 nights down to 29 and then tonight will be 45 an 81 during the day. If my brassicas bolt this weekend im going to hibernate until January

My essential tool is a compost screw - Tumbleweed Compost Mate Tool is the one I've had for over 20 years and it's still going strong (It's $21 here in Australia). You can mix and turn a compost pile in the one spot - you just screw it into the pile and it up and it pulls up stuff from the bottom to the top - 10 minutes and a big pile is done! WAY easier and a LOT less work than forking everything over to a new spot.

Tool restoration for sure.

I would love to see a tool restoration video!!

I love friskas also

That Fiskars Micropoint is fantastically sharp. If you have a friend who is into fabric crafts, it will make a wonderful gift for them, especially if they have large hands. Most small scissors have a tiny little finger ring that can be hard and even painful to get your finger out of after you've made the cut. The Micropoint has no finger ring and a soft rubber handle. It is also capable of incredibly precise cuts.

Lol. Approaching 30. Yep. 🤣👍🏻

Fiskars is great.

Approaching 30, I remember does days.

Warranty or not, I can't embrace Fiskars, because their products are predominantly made in China. Two thumbs up for the hori hori knife.

I laughed right out loud, I buy myself Christmas gifts alll the time LOL

Thanks for this vid. I almost bought the Bare Bones Horizon until I found out it is made in China. I went with a Netherlands one instead.

Oh geez... Luke is "approaching 30" .. you're getting old, Luke! 😛

Luke, very close. It is A.M. Leonard.

I’d love to see a tool repair video

I’d love to see how you clean your hand tools since we’re not using them as much in the winter. Mine are stained, dirty and need sharpening. But I’m afraid to break them or make them worse without assistance

Approaching thirty?🤣 Oh you're still a youngun!

We get snow next week

I'm wondering how you managed to make the video out in the cold without your nose running!

The aluminum trowel will last for ever!

"I'm approaching 30." 🙄🙄🙄 Whatever, Luke! 🤣🤣

Approaching 30 lol

Fiskar makes amazing scissors

You don't buy yourself a gift ... You Adult and buy what you need to make life better.

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Corona has a long handed trowell on Amazon

First... 818 zone 10b

The website is still not working for me. Is there something I'm doing wrong? Is it down for reconstruction? God bless!

Approaching 30! 🤭 Adorable. Thanks anyway for considering aging gardeners.

Is a hori hori tool left handed friendly?

30 🙀🙀🙀🙀🙀