Tools of the Trade: Our Favorite Gardening Tools

Great gardens start with great tools, and now is the perfect time to stock up on spring tools like rakes and pruners. The right tools make creating and maintaining your yard easier and faster and you really only need a handful of tools to handle the most common lawn and garden maintenance. Be sure to check out our complete line of economical Terra Verde Tools in stores and now 30% off through March 31. Here are a few must-have garden tools to help you be successful and efficient in maintaining your garden:

Pruners – pruners are ideal for removing small dead and unwanted branches from trees and shrubs. All pruners have two blades: one very sharp and is known as the cutting blade. The other is not sharp and is called the anvil blade or hook.

Bypass Loppers – a must-have for anyone with a landscape full of trees and shrubs. The long handle give you an extended reach to prune higher branches and provides you leverage, so you can prune branches up to 2′ in diameter, depending on the lopper. The long blades make it easier to do those larger cuts and are perfect for cutting branches, vines and for pruning and shaping.

Hand Trowel – one of the most important tools in the gardener shed whether you’re digging up weeds or planting new plants. Ideal for planting small plants like herbs and vegetables, making container gardens and digging out weeds. Also good for mixing soil with compost, fertilizer and other additives.