hi welcome back to garden ninja now today's video is on the top five tools
for beginner gardens and a few people online have asked me what are the
essential tools that you need as a beginner gardener.
Now I know that it can be a little bit intimidating and daunting going into a
garden center or hardware store when you don't have a clue what you're doing so
this guides for you and I'm gonna take you through the tools in order of which
tools you'll need first to get you out into the garden and gardening for
success! So the first tool out of every other tool is this a trowel and it's the
go-to tool that you will need first and foremost because this tool here is going to allow you
not only to plant plants you're going to be able to dig out soil, put compost into
pots create drills for seedlings it really is absolutely incredible
fantastic tool that you're going to need first and the great news is they're
relatively cheap they're not too expensive so you can pick up one of
these even a discount store for under five pounds or under sort of seven
dollars now the top tips to look out for is that you get a stainless steel one
that means that you're gonna be able to keep it clean and it's not gonna rust
and if you can get on with a rubberized handle as well that's much better for
grip than a wooden handle which can become dirty and cracked over time so
you can pretty much abused these, give them a wash once in a while and they last
forever the next tool you're going to need is a garden Spade
so once you've got your trowel and you've started gardening the next one
you need to move on to is a spade here is my golden Japanese spade which looks
incredibly fancy really all you're looking for in a garden Spade is a solid
forged Spade so you don't want anything that's gonna buckle under too much
pressure you're gonna need something that's pretty well constructive for a
garden Spade and I would recommend you invest a little bit more money in this
than other tools because you are going to be digging holes moving large amounts
of soil and if you invest now it really will last you a lifetime now my golden
Spade cost me about thirty pounds and it's made out of one piece of metal and
you can sharpen the edge which is great if you're cutting through sort of
fibrous turf or you've got ground that's got bits of
roots or old plant cuttings still left in them so you might be tempted to buy a
cheaper Spade one that comes as part of a package or with a garden fork I would
recommend that you don't do that I would say go to the garden center or a
hardware store have a look at the garden spades and pick one that you feel is
substantial enough for the work and it will last you a lifetime.
Now the next two I'm going to recommend might be a strange one but it's actually
a garden knife now this one here is an old bread knife but I've also got a
video on Hori Horis which are Japanese gardening knives and they're incredible
you can use any knife if you're starting off as a beginner
now knives are really useful for getting around the roots of say shrubs or trees
you can use them to clean off the roots of plants cut away debris and also get
weeds out of your soil now a garden knifes really effective for taking up
perennial weeds and these are weeds with really long tap roots if you just pull
them off they're gonna keep going back so nice allows you to get in there and
dig them out start cheap and as you found that you're using it more and more
may be look towards investing in a Hori Hori
the next item on my hit list is a pair of secateurs.
Now there are two main types and I'll quickly go over them old-fashioned anvil
secateurs were a blade presses against a pad like so the only going to need
those for woody material pruning trees or branches and the quite specialist the
other type are bypass secateurs like these if you look at the close-up you'll
see that the blades bypass each other hence the name but these are brilliant
you'll be able to cut 90% of things in your garden that you need to trim with a
pair of I buy secateurs again if you can afford them by a decent quality pair
pair that can be sharpened but if you are in a budget and a pair from a
discount store will do you at least for the first year or two keep them clean
sharpen them I use a bit of wire wall to keep any debris or stuff now last but
not least is a big surprise the big finale a kneeling pad like this one
now these probably gonna cost you about a pound in the states
a dollar from a dollar store it's a bit of foam now you can use it to kneel on
when you're planting your garden you can use as I do
in a van to protect your bum from dirty vans it's got so many different uses
I use it to shield the hair from the rain in certain instances you can use it
as a tray for seedling plants and they're so cheap
so most people seem to miss off the knee pad definitely get yourselves one of
those now there are loads of the tools you're probably going to need but as I
said this is only a short video there's a loads of detail on my blog about the
top five tool to beginners and things look out for if you've liked this video
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design hints tips and I'd love to hear from you in the comments below so let me
know what you think and whether you've got other tools that you think should be
in my top 5 let's start a bit of a discussion
I've been Garden Ninja! Happy gardening!