5 Amazing Tools Every Gardener Needs
5 Amazing Tools Every Gardener Needs
Here is a list of 5 garden tools I don’t enter the garden without. They also make great gifts for anyone who is a gardener.
Square hoe: https://amzn.to/3pBMuVl
Hori Hori: https://migardener.com/products/hori-hori?_pos=1&_psq=hori&_ss=e&_v=1.0
Micro-tip snips: https://migardener.com/products/fiskars-micro-tip-snips?_pos=1&_psq=micro&_ss=e&_v=1.0
Long handled trowel: https://amzn.to/3pgauwZ
Hand trowel: https://amzn.to/3odrDIf
Bypass pruner: https://amzn.to/3Dg5Dkn
the hori hori is concave until you turn it over. dad joke time
That Fiskars Micropoint is fantastically sharp. If you have a friend who is into fabric crafts, it will make a wonderful gift for them, especially if they have large hands. Most small scissors have a tiny little finger ring that can be hard and even painful to get your finger out of after you’ve made the cut. The Micropoint has no finger ring and a soft rubber handle. It is also capable of incredibly precise cuts.
You should look into putting a bone handle on your Hori Hori. I did mine 12 years ago and it still looks new.
Best tools imo a 5 gallon bucket, a pitchfork, a hoe, water hose and Google/YouTube.
This was surprising an interesting video!
I bought myself a pair of Fiskar Micro-tip snips earlier this year, You suggested them in a video earlier this year, and I love them.
Thank you
A kind friend sent me that same hori hori knife as a gift! I’m very excited to put it to use at home and at my garden center job next spring!
Luke, very close. It is A.M. Leonard.
You have such a pleasant and friendly demeanor and you seem super genuine. Love the videos and I can’t wait to get a bunch of your store’s seeds in the germinator. 🙂
if you posted this same video 3 to 5 years ago it would have gotten anywhere from 100,000 to a million views. What happened to your channel Luke you are a staple in the youtube gardening community you have been at it for over a decade and its almost like you’ve been brushed off to the side by youtubes algorithm. I understand youtube isnt your full time job but its upsetting to see a decline. I hope your channel gets back to where is once was. I wish you all the best. Happy Holidays.
Awww ☺️ I’m almost 30 lol I haven’t seen 30 in 20 years. Your still young and your channel is great! So many more years to go
Hurray for my Hori Hori!! Best tool in my garden!
Haha you got snow…lol…while it’s 71 here in Kansas city 🤣 😄 😆
Yes, a tool restoration video would be AWESOME.
I have chosen my Christmas gift this year and found it on sale. The 1200 lb capacity Gorilla brand garden dump wagon. I’ve worked with my rusted, perpetual flat tire wheelbarrow for 10 years. I’ll be 60 in a couple years and pushing/pulling a wheelbarrow is becoming too much. I’m so excited to get back to the garden in spring.
I wore down my Hori Hori serrated teeth edging my sidewalks and driveway and porch! Still I use it everywhere! Bought a 2nd one, now. So durable
you say you use the hoe all the time and its fives years old but it still has the sticker on it lol
Approaching 30, I remember does days.
I would love to see you clean that hori hori up 🙌🏻
I love gardening. It opens you up to nature and what is most important
Thanks for this vid. I almost bought the Bare Bones Horizon until I found out it is made in China. I went with a Netherlands one instead.
Hi Luke! You are my gardening hero. I have 5 3-year-old raised beds. You taught me how to amend my soil (the right way). You taught me how, and when, to plant, You taught me how to fertilize my plants, how to address garden pests, and how, and when, to harvest. I now successfully manage two crops – April-July/August and August-early December…and that’s without covering (in Zone 5b, NH)! I learned which varieties of lettuce, spinach, brassicas, etc. seeds to buy that are cold-tolerant. My last harvest of lettuce and Swiss chard was mid-November and my last spinach harvest was yesterday. Cheers! …and thank you!
You crack me up Luke….don’t blink people or you’ll miss the tool he’s showing you! I’ll give you a little break tho’ cuz it was cold outside! Would love to see tool restoration, but I do like purchasing tools w/life time warranties. My favourite tool is my Tiger Jaw brand Rotator Ratchet hand pruner that will cut a 1in branch with ease. 2nd is actually a kitchen tool from The Pampered Chef which is equivalent to your Fiskers snipers. I’m a new patio gardner in Aurora & you are my ‘go to’ channel if I hav a problem to solve. Love your energy & practical advice. Also nice to have a place to buy reliable seeds. I have some of your cool salad crops growing now. They look so pretty & I’ve had so much fun watching them grow so big that I’ve forgotten that I bo`t them to eat! Thanks also goes to your family for letting you spend so much time making such informative videos for us❣See you soon!
The aluminum trowel will last for ever!
My essential tool is a compost screw – Tumbleweed Compost Mate Tool is the one I’ve had for over 20 years and it’s still going strong (It’s $21 here in Australia). You can mix and turn a compost pile in the one spot – you just screw it into the pile and it up and it pulls up stuff from the bottom to the top – 10 minutes and a big pile is done! WAY easier and a LOT less work than forking everything over to a new spot.
Approaching 30?? I thought you were in your early or mid 30s and that makes me incredibly feel incompetent as someone in their early 30s
I love friskas also
Knee pads
Luke I like the garden trowel you have because of the good curve on it in Ireland I can only find the ones with a shallower curve and it’s not really great for digging small holes for planting and really not good for when you try to fill a hanging basket with fresh compost you spill more than you try to shovel you would nearly be better off putting the compost into smaller bags and healing the bag into the hanging basket it slows you down. Great tool selection you have and the first tool you showed we call a Hoe a lot of people use that type for mixing large quantities of cement like a wheel barrow full thank you so much great tool selection
Warranty or not, I can’t embrace Fiskars, because their products are predominantly made in China. Two thumbs up for the hori hori knife.
1) You are approaching 30 and starting to experience back issues in the garden? Well, my friend… it doesn’t get any better in your mid 60’s! 😜.
2) I landed in the hospital and needed emergency surgery. Your notification about seeds for Kelsae onions came out during that time. By the time I came home 9 days later, seeds were SOLD OUT — again. I’ve been trying to get seeds for quite a while and even had a check be returned to me because they were sold out. 😢. (Three years — coming up on four.)
3) Any plans to release seeds for the Giant Crimson Tomato in 2022? Keep waiting and watching…
4) Glad to see MI GARDENER doing well. Best wishes for continued success!
Kate in Olympia, WA
Lol❣️Yes, restoring video.
I also recommend a broadfork as a great garden tool to help loosen and break up soil without using a rototiller.
I, too, am approaching 30, and I feel you on the aches and pains that really have no business settling in at this age. Lol.
A hori hori is on my wish list for Christmas
…..approaching 30….🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
I’d love to see how you clean your hand tools since we’re not using them as much in the winter. Mine are stained, dirty and need sharpening. But I’m afraid to break them or make them worse without assistance
Gee, you’re almost 30! LOL, enjoy and wait till you’re almost 80! I agree with your choices. My never-enter-without includes a Kearshaw enhanced opening pocket knife (useful if you’re holding something with one hand and need to cut a string or wire tie for example), and my Felco pruners. They are a bit pricey but incredibly sturdy and handy. Use them constantly. They even have a slot for cutting wire. We’re quite a ways south of you, zone 6b, so are able to do outdoor cool weather crops almost all winter. Keep doing your videos. I’m impressed that you’re as dedicated as you are and even in my dotage I learn something every time.
Approaching 30. 😂😂😂 Still so young. You’re my favorite guy on YT, amd the reason I have a garden!! ❤
Nice hoe for $1.50 but was it made in China? I have a pair of Fiskers bypass pruners that are 11 years old. Fiskers are made in Finland.
Love your tools – don’t own a hori-hori, but will look into it as it’s so versatile! I have a long handled trowel….here in Canada we can buy them just at a local dollar store – and it’s surprising quality! At that price I usually buy a couple to have a spare on hand….but they usually last me 3-4 years each anyway…. absolutely LOVE! I like the extra leverage they give, as well as less bending. I use as a mini-shovel sometimes…. Thanks for these excellent videos!
My go to tool has become a pick mattock. You can create rows with one side, and break up compacted soil with the other.
Corona has a long handed trowell on Amazon
Yes! to a tool restoration video……that hori hori would be a great one. But I would also love to see something on sharpening and cleaning hand pruners, spades, shovels (I have a new garden so I use mine pretty regularly). Love your channel. It’s real world gardening!
Your hoary Hoary : I’ve been using a big old butcher knife to cut out the sprouting weeds in my beds. Just insert at a shallow angle and sweep it along – no picking small weeds – just skin the soil where they are growing. Works fast and like a charm.
I’m wondering how you managed to make the video out in the cold without your nose running!
Yes, yes, tool restoration! I left my BB Hori Hori outside and forgot it most of the summer… SC – you become a vampire… it looks at we’ll love as yours after one season!
"approaching 30"!!!! I’ve got socks on that!!👍🤟🤣 Thank you for what you do!
Turning 30!? Incredible all you have already accomplished! Can’t wait to see what the next 10 years brings! 🥳