5 Landscaping Tools You Need For Your Lawn
No matter how big or small your garden or lawn, if you want it to survive, you’re going to need some quality landscaping tools. There is a lot of work that needs to be done to keep your lawn green or your garden growing healthy and there are a few tools that you need to get the job done.
Pioneer Landscaping Centers carry a variety of tools to meet all of your needs. We even have different sizes and specific types of each tool to best meet your lawn or gardening needs. We can break down what you need. You can see them all in our landscaping tool catalog.
#1 LANDSCAPING TOOLS: GARDEN HOES
This garden tool helps you cultivate your soil, prepping the garden before you plant your seeds. It’s also perfect for removing pesky weeds that might be growing and taking nutrients from your plants. You can use gardening hoes for your lawn, too, if you have to re-soil and replant your lawn.
We have two versions of a garden hoe that can match your needs. If you have a large-sized garden where you plan to fit more than half a dozen plants, a typical garden hoe will do the trick. If you have something smaller or are making a smaller garden, the land reach hand hoe is the perfect size.
#2 LANDSCAPING TOOLS: SHEARS
If you have a lawn with anything from grass, to shrubs to trees, you need a pair of shears. You can use them for trimming grass, hedges, vines, branches, and more. When you don’t have shears, you can’t keep cutting a small patch of grass down to length without mowing the whole lawn. Without shears, you can’t trim shrubbery so it’s even and keel. Even if appearances aren’t the most important thing to you, you still want to have shears for safety hazards like dangling branches and plants that grow through fences and concrete.
Some shears work better than others for the occasion. Bypass shears aren’t too big or long, so they wouldn’t be for trimming bushes or cutting tree branches, but they’re the perfect size for taking care of any vines growing in your fence.
Our hedge shears are 9-inches long, with resharpenable blades, perfect for the shrubbery around your yard. If your shrubbery isn’t too thick, and you trim your grass as often as your shrubs, the snipper shear would be just as good at 8-inches long. There’s a shear perfect for every occasion.
#3 LANDSCAPING TOOLS: PRUNING TOOLS
Sometimes a shear won’t do the trick. Sometimes you need something sharper and thicker to cut through or cut down shrubs and branches. That’s why you need to get the proper pruning tool.
The pruning saw is the most heavy-duty of the pruning tools. It’s a long, durable, non-stick blade that can cut through some tree branches and cut sections off a shrubbery that have been left to grow too big and long.
But not all branches and shrubs are that big or are in places where you have a lot of support to saw your way through. When you don’t have that, use a pruning knife. Ours is made with the same quality handcrafting as our saw and will prune, sod cut, and graft whatever you need for your garden.
#4 LANDSCAPING TOOLS: CULTIVATORS
Not to be mistaken with a tiller, a cultivator is a landscaping tool that can mix loose soil. This isn’t a tool for creating a new garden, but for maintaining the soil you already have in a garden. Once all the hard work is done making the garden, you need to be able to upkeep it or it’ll all be for nothing.
If your garden is large enough to warrant a garden hoe, it should have a Flexrake cultivator. Its 48-inch handle is long enough and its prongs are thick enough to cultivate your soil. If not, the hand cultivator is the perfect size to do the trick.
#5 LANDSCAPING TOOLS: SHOVELS
Shovels dig and move whatever dirt, topsoil, or mulch you need to where you need it on your lawn or in your garden. You need a round shovel for any medium-to-large lawns and all gardens, and trowels will do the job when you only need to fill small spots in either.
This is one of the few cases where you want one in both sizes. A shovel can’t do precision work, but even the smallest garden will need a shovel to spread all the soil around. Holes will always pop up and need a trowel to fill small spots.
GET THE LANDSCAPING TOOLS YOU NEED FROM PIONEER
Whether it be for your lawn or your garden, you can’t landscape anything with only your hands. You need tools that need to stand up to regular use, year-round. Pioneer Landscaping Centers provide only the best, and if you need help figuring out what tools are best for your lawn or garden, contact our experts at your local Pioneer Landscaping Center.