The document discusses tools for preparing and maintaining a garden bed. It identifies basic tools like shovels, rakes, wheelbarrows, forks, and trowels. It then provides details on the uses of specific tools, including general gardening forks for cultivation and soil aeration, hoes for weeding, and rakes for contouring beds. It also recommends maintaining tools by cleaning them after use, allowing them to dry before storage, and keeping them sharp.

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Tool Identification
Tools to help you prepare, plant
and maintain your garden bed

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The right tool for the job
It is important to be able
to identify and choose
the right tool for your
garden tasks, use these
tools correctly, and
maintain them in good
working order.

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Basic garden tools
You only require few basic tools to be able to
cultivate and maintain your garden such as …
• shovel
• rake
• wheel barrow
• garden fork
• hand trowel
• watering can
But you can have many others, like a hand fork,
weeding tool, hand cultivator or trowel.

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General Gardening Fork
Used for …
• cultivation
• soil aeration
• digging & lifting crops.
• turning compost

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Draw or Goose Neck Hoe
Used for …
• chipping medium sized weeds
• mounding up garden beds

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Rakes
Used for …
• contouring beds
• creating a smooth
planting surface
• gathering up
leaves or weeds

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Shovels
Used for …
• spreading out/turning over soil/compost/manure
• digging your garden
• working the soil along with a garden fork

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Wheelbarrow
Used for ...
• carting things about

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Watering Can
Used for
• watering your plants
• dispensing liquid fertilisers

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Watering Rosette Head
Used for …
• watering your garden without damaging your soil or
young seedlings
At least 1 setting
should give a nice
soft cone of water
when watering.

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Maintaining garden tools
• Always remove loose soil from tools after use and
wash them clean.
• Don’t put tools away wet — allow them to dry first.
• Wipe with light oil and store out of the weather.
• Keep tools sharp as then they are much easier to
use and do a better job.