20 BEST Garden Tools I ALWAYS Use (Non Powered)
20 BEST Garden Tools I ALWAYS Use (Non Powered)
In this video, I give you my 20 BEST garden tools I ALWAYS use here when I’m gardening at home.
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One of my favorite garden tools, particularly for digging out those pesky weeds, is the Gold Garden Claw.
I had a welder neighbor build a broadfork for me because I am a big fellow. It needed to be wide for me and heavy duty. I use it instead of a rototiller to break up my soil at the beginning of a new plot. I ordered the ash handles on-line and shaped them to fit my new garden tool.
Almost forgot my favorite garden knife a med size Japanese Hori hori. I serves many purposes with its concave instead of flat blade it is useful to do small digging jobs, while the sharp edges slice thru roots. It opens boxes and bags and can slice a ripe tomato.
Looks good hanging on my belt and is much bigger than the other guys.
Love your humour and straight forward honesty
Great video. Background noise really isn’t that bad. Probably worse being there.
Garden weasel
AOC … a tool. Hahaha
That was a nice selection of tools you use. One style of hoe that works for me is called a Hula Hoe with a long handle. It is much easier to use than the traditional hoe.
The cockatoos making a ruckus in the background. 😂 this is why I love Australia.
I see your AOC stake. We have a politician here in the US with those initials (AOC) ,if you would kindly stake her to the ground there in Australia for a few decades, we’d really appreciate it.
Cut toward your BUDDY not your BODY. You can always get a new BUDDY.
Check out the Ellen White method to plant fruit trees. On the Weed Garden (Australia) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4-p2vflRnj4. I am going to try it!
1 of my fav vids of urs. I love how ruff & rugged ur tools r & that they have that special connection to u. As well as implementing resources u already have to invent a tool without having 2 spend hundreds. Thank you 4 sharing & inspiring.💖
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17:37 😂
I guess lots of Americans watch this 👍🏻
What we Brits call a lump hammer 🙂
thank goodness AOC didn’t invade your garden and tell you what your allowed to do…HAHA
I use a hoe that has a small blade, about 4” wide and 2 1/2” tall.
All the edges are beveled on one side and are pretty sharp. It’s fairly light and easy to control in use around growing plants.
The edges on the sides I keep especially sharp for weeding in tight spaces , especially useful in the center of a raised bed.
Have a second one that has a 24” handle which is incredibly efficient for many tasks. This one i keep very sharp.
Also I painted the heads in very visible colors for a few reasons.
Easy to see and control the head while in us.
Easy to find and collect tools when cleaning up, and safer in general.
Easier maintenance
here in the U.S. of A, the blue big box store with a name that starts with "L" carries a small childsize rake for less than $7.00. works great and is even made of metal with a wood handle. Great rundown of neededs. thanks
I’ve been using the devil out of 2 step ladders in my garden for years, a 4 ft and a 6 ft. Couldn’t do without them.
Just think. I did heaps of shell scrapes wit the entrenching tool.
Screwdriver for weed removing
👍really good, your sound is so good, we can hear you clearly above the birds & machines
One of the first things I bought for my new home (10 years ago) was a Garden Cart ($100 on sale for $80). If I need a solid bottom in the cart, I saved an old shower curtain to line the cart. I also have a smaller solid 4-wheeled cart that can act as a small dump truck, both of which I can drag by hand or attach to the riding lawn mower to pull around bricks and stones. I only have 1/2 acre that the home and two outbuildings sit on, but my veggie garden is appx. 800 sq ft. I literally tote that cart ALL OVER my yard to pick up tree prunings and other debris, haul mulch and new landscaping plants, potting soil or other dirt, bags of leaves that aren’t suitable for composting, hoses at the beginning and end of the season, and even just to haul all of my "20" best garden tools that I am always using (loppers, pruning shears, hand spade, hand rake, short weeder, long weeder, bulb hole digger, tall hand tiller/auger, pots and pot hangers, watering can, flat and pointed hoes, garden stakes, different kinds of netting or fencing and other plant supports, plant ID signs and markers, plant seeds, bird feeders and seed for the front yard, bird and insect deterrents for the back garden, plus different kinds of rakes and shovels, etc.)–haha. My garden cart was the BEST investment I made for this house to practice "tiny homesteading."
Mark, check out the Cahokian Hoe in this video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AcbC7V5KC9o
Thanks Mark, absolutely love your videos. I was surprised how many of your tools I have already. Your mini sledge my dad called a Lump hammer. I’d often wondered if the hose link lived up to its hype so thanks for the honest appraisal. Cheers
Luv, luv my garden cart as you have, the one with fold down sides.
However my other luv is a dump cart. Not sure proper name but its a big bucket with 4 fat wheels, has handle to pull and cart dumps like a truck. Awesome! I’m a 50 year old female and both these carts help me stay young!
To figure out to unwrap bags, go to your local brewery. the will show you how to master it
Wheelbarrow! I have half a slopey weird acre! I find its handy to have a small wheelbarrow as well as the beasty one.
re: bags – its a slip knot – you gotta pull the right end and like magic it frees.
I also prefer the flip style stanley knife – super quick n easy to change blades, and no risk of the knife popping out. Always in mu pocket 🙂
I need rope. Organic rope or plastic to tie things
I don’t have a trench shovel, so I use a mason’s brick trowel more than I should. I wouldn’t want to fill a wheelbarrow or even a 5g bucket with it, but it has a nice straight edge to plant a row of seeds a consistent depth and it’s big enough to make a hole for seedlings’ roots in just a scoop or two, all while being small enough to use one handed while holding something like a seedling in the other hand.
We have our original wheelbarrow from 25years ago…when the bottom rusted out we screwed in a carpet square…the best thing ever…used it for another 5 years before we had to replace the wheelbarrow.
You missed out the bottle opener and sun lounger 😀
I love my Hose link hose. It is amazing
Very good message, information,
Very nice.
I like the auger that goes onto a hand drill. Good for moving and digging the soil, for an old back 😃
I love the way Mark teaches. My garden is getting better because what I’ve learned here ( ; lots of great ideas!!
That smile at 14:40 though
A watering can
do you know where i can get Hoe Fork Head, 4 Forged Prongs , with long hardwood handle please in australia
Daddy’s got forearms like a bear 🤌💦🤌💦🤣
poor banana tree XD
oh, another best garden tool – Good Boots!
I watched hoselink win on new inventors years ago now
Superb advice. Love your videos.
Good invention, that extended saw with nice wood handle!
Yes I very aware lot’s of rubbish product in the market
I just ordered The Prong through this site.. discount magically applied at check out. (A year after your post). Congratulations on your massive following. It’s a brilliant channel.
I can’t find devil stakes anywhere so I am off to enlist to get me some, and that handy trowel/digger/thingy… the extremes we go to to keep our gardens in order!.
Good day Mike, I’m from South Africa, Easter Cape, Port Elizabeth Now Rechristened 😂 Gqeberha, anyway, as they are calling our city. The windy city, Thank you so so much for all your videos, I thurely enjoy every single one of them, so so glad I came across your site. Wow Your abit far away a good coupla thousands I would say ,😂. You are so inspiring, I’ll be starting my vegatable garden on our balcony, get good son but mostly afternoon from 10ish more by 12tge son is full on the stoop, I’ll be planting your 10 vegetables suggestions, have a fig tree that had its 1st Crop of 20 in a huge pot, and a sample of a black berry tree from my brother, which is thriving, I am in a routine of give good water to the trees and little pots like chives Avo tree plant only still, but if I may, how many times would I water the vegetables, as some will be seeds from the fruit and others will be plants going into my hore manure I just got yesterday, I’ll will today put eggs in the ground, as my gardening bags will be here in 3days. If you have a moment to spare please would you be so kind to advise me on the water. Love love your garden by the way. Stay Healthy Stay Joyful Stay Blessed. Ant 🐜😁 oinette 🤝 Randall. On the other side of our beautiful world.