Basic Knowledge of Gardening I - What is Garden Container?

-->In Asia areas, a large size pot or basin is called flower container generally, but in western countries, flower pots or basins, regardless of the size of container, they called all containers used to plant and grow plants as garden container or flower container. However, frames of flower pots and basins are not used for plants cultivation directly, they are different from garden containers.
The cultivation way of utilizing garden containers is known as "garden container cultivation", while the way of using garden contianers, with which to plant and grow a variety of flowers, grass, garden trees or foliage plants, to beautify residence and the surrounding environment is known as the "container gardening".

** Original post: The Garden of Eden for Gardeners (Garden Tools World)

Most Usual Garden Tools for Housewives

Grow several plants in the house and decorate the environment in everyday life, which could make the whole family live together become more vivid in mentally and physically, while to be a good housewife who is skilled at gardening, you need several essential garden tools.

Flower Shovel
Flower shovel is small, lightweight, and simple to use, which can be used to do jobs such as transplanting, earthing up, cultivation, weeding and so on. For example, when to use planters or flower pots to grow plants, the flower shovel can replace hoe, rake and shovel, and other large tools.

This is a garden tool with wide range of uses, you must to purchase one. But when using you should pay more attention, because the size of a flower shovel is small, the joint part connecting the handle and the body of the shovel should be broken most easily, so you taken more care when using it.

There are different patterns shovels available in the market for you to choose, among which a shovel with a whole handle and body, which was been casted in a whole is a more durable shovel.


Lopping Shears
Lopping shears can be used to prune branches, as well as suitable for harvesting crops of melons and legumes. The thing you should consider is the spring lies in the middle of the shears is very easy to lose.

Lopping shears available in the market with many styles and patterns, the same time the price variation is also very large, in general, the more expensive the price is the more sharp the shears, but for general gardening, an pair of ordinary shears can be competent. If you have children at home, a pair of round-ended shears is more suitable.

Watering Can
Watering can can be used to watering and Shi liquid fertilizer, metal texture and more durable than the plastic texture. It is need to be reminded that the most vulnerable also the most been lost part of a plastic flower pot is the spout, so each time when you finished the fertilization, you should clean the spout carefully and store it in time.






Handle Trigger Sprayer
Handle trigger sprayers are mainly used for spraying water and natural pesticides, which can emit water out with mist, and sprinkled on plants more evenly, judge the quality of a sprayer is to see whether the water mist sprayed out from the sprayer is enough tiny and equal or not.

Remember to clean the sprayer carefully after using, so to avoid the water hole of the trigger sprayer be plugged by contaminations.

Handle trigger sprayer is also can be replaced by water sprayer, although a water sprayer is not competent enough to finish the watering job as a trigger sprayer, it is still a good choice with inexpensive price.** Original post: The Garden of Eden for Gardeners (Garden Tools World)

How to Start a Garden with Basic Garden Tools

You don't need to spend much to start a garden, but you do need some basic garden tools. Anyway, if you are lucky enough to get these basic garden tools from a flea market or buy secondhand tools though online shopping, you can do it with no more than $100 …

Actually I will give you some useful tips on how to select basic tools for your garden…

First Tip. Spading Fork

The first basic tool you need is a spading fork. Before you plant anything, you will need to cultivate and improve the soil. A spading fork looks like a pitchfork but has a shorter handle and wider cusps. It is necessary to dig down into hard soil and break up the ground.

Second Tip. Hoe

The next garden tool you need is a hoe. A hoe is useful and helpful for weeding weeds and cultivating the surface of the soil to allow a smooth penetration of water and nutrients.

Third Tip. Spray Can
Thirdly a spray can is needed. Select a spray can that has a detachable spray head, as well as has long nozzles that allow the water to come out at a very gentle flow rate and are useful for reaching across long distances, and this type of spray can is also a best garden tool for watering young saplings and seedlings.

Fourth Tip. Shovel

A digging shovel is also one of basic garden tools that must listed in your purchasing list, and you may select a round-ended shovel for larger digging projects, such as get a good ready for planting shrubs and trees.

Fifth Tip. Garden Rake
A good garden rake is needed basically, too. And pay more attention to select a good garden rake, best a bow rake, which has short cusps on one side attached to a metal frame. You will use it to level the soil after it has been turned and prior to planting, as well as to remove large clods of earth or rocks from the soil. You will find a bow rake is helpful when you want to smooth the garden soil in preparation for planting, only thing you should do is to turn the bow rake over and use its flat side…

Sixth Tip. Garden Shear

Shears, sometimes people called it clippers, are used for pruning, shaping and removing foliage or branches. A pair of garden shears will useful in the process of the garden construction, and you’d better remind to select a pair of universal shears that fits comfortably in your hand, and an expensive garden shears are not always the best one suited you…

* Friendly Warning:

Generally a expensive garden tool means higher quality or multi functions, but for a garden beginner, it not a good choice, because at the beginning you are not sure which kind of garden tools you need mostly, maybe you are still not sure you are like gardening truly, so in order to avoid a large amount of money consumption, it is not necessary to buy a expensive garden tool until you make a firm decide to start gardening… 

* Original address of this garden tools post: The Garden of Eden for Gardeners