This document lists and describes various hand tools used in horticulture and gardening. It provides brief descriptions of common tools like the bolo for cutting grass and weeds, crowbar for digging and removing stones, pick-mattock for digging and breaking soil, grab hoe for breaking and pulverizing soil, spade for digging and mixing soil, shovel for digging and moving soil, rake for cleaning and leveling soil, and hand cultivator and fork for weeding. Other tools mentioned include pruning shears, axe, knife, sprinkler, water pails, sprayer, wheelbarrow, sickle, and hand trowel. In summary, it outlines and defines different basic hand tools used

1. Hand Tools
Horticulture

2. Hand Tools
Hand tools are usually light and are used without
the help of animals or machines.
They are being used in performing farm activities
which involve small areas like school garden and
home garden.
This is the

3. Bolo
used for cutting tall grasses
and weeds
and chopping branches of
trees.

4. Crowbar
used for digging big
holes and for
digging out big stones
and stumps.

5. Pick-Mattock
used for digging canals,
breaking hard topsoil
and for digging up
stones and tree stumps.

6. Grab hoe
used for breaking hard
topsoil and
pulverizing soil.

7. spade
used for removing trash
or soil,
digging canals or
ditches, and mixing soil
media.

8. shovel
used in removing trash,
digging
loose soil, moving soil from
one place to
another and for mixing soil
media.

9. rake
used for cleaning the
ground and
leveling the topsoil.

10. Spading Fork
used for loosening the soil,
digging out root crops and
turning over the
materials in a compost heap.

11. Light Hoe
used for loosening and
leveling
soil and digging out
furrows for planting

12. Hand trowel
used for loosening the
soil around the growing
plants and putting small
amount of manure
fertilizer in the soil

13. Hand Cultivator
used for cultivating the
garden plot by loosening
the soil and removing
weeds around the plant.

14. Hand fork
used for inter
row cultivation

15. Pruning shears
cutting branches of
planting materials and
unnecessary branches
of plants.

16. axe
for cutting
bigger size post

17. knife
for cutting planting
materials and for
performing other
operations in
horticulture

18. Sprinkler
used for watering
seedlings
and young plants

19. Water Pails
used for hauling
water,
manure and
fertilizers

20. Sprayer
for spraying
insecticides, foliar
fertilizers,
fungicides and
herbicides

21. Wheel Barrow
used for hauling trash,
manures, fertilizers,
planting materials and
other equipment.

22. Sickle
hand-held agricultural
tool with a
variously curved blade
typically used for cutting
weeds.

23. And those are the examples
of
HAND TOOLS
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