42 Garden Tools Lists: Tools for Construction and Maintenance of Garden

In this article, we will discuss the garden tools list.

To maintain the beauty of the garden you need many different types of tools as well as to construct a garden you will need a list of tools. Here is the garden tools list you will need for the maintenance and construction of the garden.

  1. Garden Tools List  

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Names	Images	Uses
1. Square Spade		Used for digging straight-edged holes or trenches, slicing and lifting sod, and edging flower beds or lawns.
2. Shovel		Used to dig as well as to move loose.
3. Hoe		Used in gardening and horticulture to loosen soil and chop weeds.
4. Tractor		Used to carry goods, digging the ground.
5. Rake		Used before excavating the top clear the leaves, and dust on the surface.
6. Pick Axe		Used for breaking up hard ground or rock.
7. Mattock		Used for digging, prying, and chopping.
8. Digging Bars		Used for breaking up clay, concrete, frozen ground, and other hard materials, moving or breaking up tree roots and obstacles, and making holes in the ground for fence posts.
9. Hacksaw		Used for cutting thin metal such as aluminum, brass, steel, or copper.
10. Gloves		Used to protect and comfort hands against cold or heat, damage by friction, abrasion or chemicals, and diseases.

11. Hand Auger		Used to carry out a range of shallow digging necessary in obtaining soil samples, making postholes, etc.
12. Goggles		Used to shield the eyes against liquid or chemical splash, irritating mists.
13. Pipe		Used to supply water to the field.
14. Sprinkler		Used to irrigate, or provide water, to plants.
15. Trowel		Used for digging small holes or removing weeds.
16. Pointed Shovel		Used in transplanting, trenching, moving compost or mulch, etc.
17. Garden Fork		Used for loosening, lifting, and turning over soil in gardening and farming, etc.
18. Potato Fork		Used for gentle diagonal probing and lifting of root crops and tubers from relatively loose soil.
19. Broadfork		Used for turning, tilling, lifting, and aerating soil.
20. Post Hole Pincer		Used for digging post and in-ground support holes.

21. Wheel Edger		Used for edging paths and walkways.
22. Step-On Edger		Used to make neat, tidy edges around plant beds or between the lawn and a driveway, walkway, patio, or street.
23. Edging Shears		Used for trimming grass around the edges of lawns and borders.
24. Electric Edger		Used to make neat, tidy edges around plant beds or between the lawn and a driveway, walkway, patio, or street.
25. Lawn Mower		Used to mow grass or plants.
26. Leaf Blower		Used for cleaning the leaves.
27. String Trimmer		Used to trim the grass in tight spots that a lawnmower can’t reach.
28. Mulcher		Used to grind organic material, reducing the volume of natural waste and transforming it into mulch.
29. Spreader		Used to collect dust particles and leaves.
30. Aerator		Used to make small holes or plugs in your lawn.

31. Hose		Used to carry fluids through the air or fluid environments.
32. Bulb Planter		Used for getting the depth correct.
33. Hand Weeder		Used to remove the weeds from the ground.
34. Hand Seeder		Used to sow seeds for crops.
35. Seeder Row Planter		Used to save a tremendous amount of time and keep the rows spaced evenly in a garden or a farm field.
36. Tiller		Used to break up hard, compact soil into loose, broken-up dirt that can then be used for planting.
37. Soil Scoop		Used for cooping potting soil, making seed furrows, weeding and digging
38. Hand Pruner		Used to smoothly cut thin pieces of wood, as well as anything softer such as the non-woody stems of perennials
39. Hedge Shears		Used for cutting any small branches.
40. Pruning Saw		Used to trim shrubs and trees.
41. Lopper		Used for pruning twigs and small branches
42. Tree Pruner		Used for cutting plants and small branches, such as roses and grapevines.

This was our 40+ garden tools list.