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The document provides an overview of various gardening tools and their specific uses, including the hori-hori, hand pruner, hand rake, bow rake, digging fork, round-headed shovel, water hose, transplant spade, water wand, long-handled pruner, mattock, and digging bar. Each tool is described with its primary function in gardening, emphasizing their importance for tasks such as weeding, soil manipulation, and watering. This guide serves as a resource for gardeners to understand the essential tools needed for effective gardening.

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Summer

The document provides an overview of various gardening tools and their specific uses, including the hori-hori, hand pruner, hand rake, bow rake, digging fork, round-headed shovel, water hose, transplant spade, water wand, long-handled pruner, mattock, and digging bar. Each tool is described with its primary function in gardening, emphasizing their importance for tasks such as weeding, soil manipulation, and watering. This guide serves as a resource for gardeners to understand the essential tools needed for effective gardening.

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GARDENING TOOLS

AND
THEIR USES

Name: Summer Lhynne S. Castillo


Grade & Section: VI-Aristotle
Teacher: Jan Philip Brioso
Hori-hori

This Japanese gardening knife is the Swiss army knife of the garden, replacing
at least three different hand tools. It’s a great weeding tool due to its sharp edge,
making it a great choice for either slicing weeds or digging them out completely.
You can use it as a transplanting and seed-planting tool, as well as a way to
harvest your root crops safely.

Hand pruner

Hand pruners are used mostly to chop branches and stems. This breaks the
“more than one purpose” rule, but pruning is such an essential gardening activity
that it makes sense to have a tool dedicated to the job.

Hand rake
The hand rake is your soil manipulation tool. You can use it to smooth out soil,
remove any pesky weeds that your hori-hori didn’t take care of, or turn your soil as
a mini-tiller.

Bow rake

The bow rake is your surface-level soil manipulation tool. It’s used
mostly to level your garden, but can also rake gardens free of debris,
making your soil more consistent for your plants. It can also be used for
leaves or light debris, but is heavier than standard leaf rakes, so it may
tire you out todo so.

Digging fork

These are used to manipulate the soil below the surface of your garden. It’s
far more effective than a spade for many different types of gardening activities.
Most gardeners use digging forks to loosen, lift, and turn over soil. In small
gardens, digging forks are exceptionally useful for changing the composition or
quality of your soil quickly.

Round-headed shovel

There are many different types of garden shovels, but you can’t go wrong
with a simple round-headed shovel. Most of your major earthmoving will take place
with this tool. It can double as a transplanter or a means to dig out annoying
weeds or stumps if necessary.

Water hose

Most beginner gardeners already own a hose, but it’s important to include on
this list because it is perhaps the most essential long-handled tool! Without it, you
can’t deliver water to your plants and keep them growing.
Transplant spade

Spade is a tool used for digging straight-edged holes or trenches, slicing and
lifting sod, and edging flower beds or lawns.

Water wand

Water wands will help you save both your back and water. By focusing your
watering only on areas that need it, you’ll avoid wasting water, and the hose
extension it provides means you won’t need to bend over as much.

Pruner

A long-handled pruner will help you tend to hard-to-reach areas of the


garden, most notably pesky tree branches blocking your sun.

Mattock

While mattocks are a versatile gardening tool, the simple fact is that most
people don’t need them in the garden. You’ll want to pick one up if you have a
significant amount of digging, chopping, or soil loosening to do.

Digging bar

If you need to clear out stumps or deep roots in your garden before you
begin planting, a digging bar can give you both the power and the leverage you
need to clear your soil of debris.

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