We all like to make our jobs easier and having the right landscape maintenance equipment would make keeping our landscape beautiful simpler.  Below we have detailed descriptions of some of the most basic and important tools every home gardener should have in their shed.

The home gardener really only needs one good spade, a square shovel, a large and small rake, a hoe and a large and small trowel.  Of course if you have a lawn you will also need a good lawnmower and a weed-eater.

The shovel, both the pointed spade and square shovel should be sufficient.  The spade is the go to piece of equipment for all kinds of digging jobs.  For making or smoothing out walkways the square shovel would be perfect.

Two rakes, a large one and a small one, make a good addition to a landscape maintenance equipment storage shed.  For the huge job of cleaning up all those fall leaves you would need a large rake.  The smaller rake is for the intricate task of cleaning debris from around delicate flowers.

A large and small trowel will be needed also.  The smaller hand trowel is used in the spring to plant small seedlings.  A longer handled trowel is needed for making rows in a vegetable garden.

A good set of shears and pruners are used just a few times a year when you need to cut back overgrowth or shape up your hedges.  Your fruit trees need to be pruned with a set of pruners each year to encourage new growth.

Pruners are needed during the time of the year that you want to severely trim back trees.  This is especially important for fruit trees to bear a good crop of fruit in their next cycle.

Our ride-on lawnmower is my husband’s personal favorite piece of landscape maintenance equipment, which he uses to mow our 2 acres.  You may have very small lawn area that will only require a push style mower.  The majority of people need some type of power mower.

Finally, the lawnmower, this is a basic piece of landscape maintenance equipment that every home has and is used for maintaining a beautiful lawn.  Again, the lawnmower comes in a variety of sizes depending on the size of your lot.  We own a ride-on lawnmower because we have over an acre of green area to maintain.  Most lawnmowers come with different attachments that can be used to cut lawn, pick up leaves, and mulching jobs.

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