Professional quality garden tools

Use our guide to find all the basic tools for a well-equipped gardener — secateurs, spades, edging tools, trowels, rakes and forks — with our descriptions with what makes them the best in their category. With this you have everything you need for well trimmed hedges, tidy borders, leaf-free lawns and for planting new additions to your plot.

When you've picked the tools you need for borders and hedges, take a look at our pick of the best lawn mowers. These Felco secateurs are the best of the bunch thanks to their innovative rotating handle, which is said to reduce pruning effort by a third, lessening the risk of tendonitis. We have more of the best secateurs in our buyer's guide. The Xact Digging Spade by Fiskars is specially designed to see off such challengers thanks to an extremely durable construction and clever design.

The pipes are ergonomically designed to minimise hand fatigue and the high-carbon steel blades are expertly proportioned with the long handles for leverage, making for a comfortable cutting experience.

Reviewers also commented that they were surprisingly light, so if you have a lot of ground to cover in your garden, consider these. The stainless steel head makes digging in damp soil less of a sticky situation by reducing the amount of earth that clings to its prongs, while also resisting rust, and the wooden handle is weatherproofed to last an age even in less well-sealed sheds.

Light to lift but fearless in the face of stubborn roots and soil, reviewers found the Roughneck pick mattock tool to be adept at all manner of jobs, from pulling up stumps to excavating huge amounts of chalk. With a heavy head and a lightweight fibreglass handle to minimise vibrations from heavy hits, users were impressed with how well it struck a balance between capable and comfortable.

Some said you had to drive the head into place firmly on the shaft before first use, but loved that the head had remained tight to the handle after extensive work — good news when it comes to safety in the garden, nobody wants a pick flying off through the kitchen window!

Trowels are endlessly useful things in the garden, handling everything from transplanting seedlings, to potting, to cutting through straggly roots to make room for new plants, so you want to make it a good one. Sure, if you have an extra large plot lucky you! It has a stainless steel anti-rust head, but an ultra-light aluminium shaft, which makes for a lightweight yet robust tool for lawn edging. You may find that if you have very tough soil you may want to break it up a bit with another tool first.

When it comes to the best gardening tools, there will be some difference in opinion depending on your specific requirements.

While, again, what you consider to be the best tools will vary depending on the task you're looking to undertake, there are a few factors that should be taken into account when buying any gardening tool. These include:. While, in most cases, the functional aspect of gardening tools will be made from metal, you may wish to think about the material used to produce the handle. Opting for wood, or another natural material is the most sustainable option, as the tool can be broken apart and recycled when — or if — it comes to the end of its life.

Best Trowel:. Nearly indestructible, even after years of potting, planting, and light digging. Best Shovel:. Stands up to even heavy-duty tasks like moving large boulders, removing stumps and digging deep trenches. Best Rain Gauge:. Best Garden Rake:. Best Gardening Gloves:. The glove's water-resistant nylon helps keep hands dry during messy gardening tasks. The 9 Best Pruners of The 9 Best Places to Buy Seeds of View On Amazon.

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