Top 10 Basic Garden Tools for Beginners

During the pandemic, many of us in the Philippines becomes more interested in planting ornamental plants. Maybe this is because of boredom that strikes people who are on a long period of lockdowns.

Making your own garden at home is a hobby that can become profitable in the long run for some people. Some people grow and sell their plants. Having a garden at home has health benefits it is proven by doctors that plants in your garden can reduce stress levels. 

But when you are a beginner when it comes to gardening it can be difficult to know what's tools and items are needed to begin with. In this article, we'll start by introducing you to the 10 basic tools you will need to grow your garden. From there, we'll go through what other basic tools you might need to take care of your garden.

What are garden tools used for?

There is a wide variety of Garden tools that you can purchase or add to your toolbox. Each garden tool is designed for a specific purpose like cutting, digging, pruning, etc. But the entire purpose of garden tools is to help you tend to your garden at home. Maintaining a healthy plant all the time.

Here at Shoppiverse PH, we collated some of the basic garden tools for beginners that you can purchase online.

Table of Contents

1. Mini Garden Plant Gardening Shovel Rake Tool Set
2. Garden Plant Pruning Tools
3. Garden Gloves Two Hands Fingertips Claws
4. Pressure Sprayer Bottle Watering Spray
5. Big Gardening Wood Handle Grass Scissor
6. Expandable Magic Hose 25FT-200FT
7. Steel Shovel Iron & Square Shovel
8. Lotus Garden Rake
9. Silicone Thumb Knife
10. Cleaver Knife or Jungle Bolo

1. Mini Garden Plant Gardening Shovel Rake Tool Set

Product Description:

Shovels are used for planting or help you to remove weeds around your plant. It is typically made with iron construction with comfortable wooden handles. Another use of a Shovel is to dig soil around your plant it helps to give proper aeration to your plants. 

To purchase the product you can visit the store: Shopee or Lazada

2.Garden Plant Pruning Tools

Product Description:

Sometimes plant grows indiscriminately making the neighboring plant becomes covered. As a result, neighboring plants can reduce the sunlight it receives. In order to resolve this problem, pruning tools help you easily trim small plants that need to have cared for delicately.

Some plants need to be pruned in order to focus their nutrients on the fruits instead of the leaves. Grape vines are one of the great examples that require pruning. 

Pruning tools are typically made out of plastic handles and stainless steel blades. Some handles are made out of wood but the most common nowadays are made out of plastic.

To purchase the product you can visit the store: Shopee or Lazada

3. Garden Gloves Two Hands Fingertips Claws

Product Description:

The gloves are used to prevent accidental cuts, scratches, and pricks from thorns, sticks, broken nails, and more. When gardening makes sure to use puncture-resistant gloves. Some gloves have claws that are made with durable ABS plastic to protect your fingers and hands.

Extremely lightweight and stretchable - one size fits most women, men, and even big kids - A best stylish choice for protecting the hands in the family.

Keep dirt, dust, mud, and impurities away from palms and wrists.

4 claws made with durable ABS plastic. Built claws that let you dig and plant without hand tools.

Fits Like a Second Skin. Durable, waterproof, and puncture-resistant to protect your hands.

With built-in claws for digging, planting, and raking, these garden gloves are a one-step solution to your gardening tasks.

To purchase the product you can visit the store: Shopee or Lazada

4. Pressure Sprayer Bottle Watering Spray

Product Description:

This sprayer is perfect for watering small plants like orchids and other flowering plants. Watering sprinkler artifact/squeeze waterer/flower waterer/sprayer.

1. Two sprinkling modes

2.  capacity is 0.8 L 1.5L 2.0L 3.0L

3. The extrusion design is affordable

4. It can be used for disinfection liquid sprayings

To purchase the product you can visit the store: Shopee or Lazada

5. Big Gardening Wood Handle Grass Scissor

Product Description:

Grass scissors are important tools to trim your Bermuda grass or shrubs that are growing rapidly in your garden. This tool is great for trimming a variety of bushes and hedges.

• Material: Metal and wood.
• Blade Size: 7 inches or 18cm
• Length including the wooden handle: 9 inches or 23cm
• High-quality garden shears.
• Ideal for cutting hedges and bushes.
• High-quality strong steel blade.

To purchase the product you can visit the store: Shopee or Lazada

6. Expandable Magic Hose 25FT-200FT

Product Description:

Multi-function nozzle can easily solve the trouble of washing cars, watering flowers, and washing Windows. Use simple and convenient, open faucet, immediately automatic pressurization, become long, 2.5 meters can become 7.5 meters, 5 meters can become 15 meters, 7.5 meters can become 20 meters!, gently press the water gun, super clean high Windows, car more easily! No twine, no knot, lightweight, easy to take, save money, exercise both.

Strong pressure water well over a range of 8m. After draining the water, the pipe automatically retracts.

No need for electricity, small size, lightweight, super convenient storage, the spray gun has a variety of water conversion design, can be arbitrary conversion mode,

It is easy to operate, the faucet will be 3 times the length when it is opened, and the faucet will be retracted to the original length immediately after it is closed

To purchase the product you can visit the store: Shopee or Lazada

7. Steel Shovel Iron & Square Shovel

Product Description:

A Shovel is a tool for digging, lifting, and moving bulk materials, such as soil, coal, gravel, snow, sand, or ore.  Most shovels are hand tools consisting of a broad blade fixed to a medium-length handle. Shovel blades are made of sheet steel.

To purchase the product you can visit the store: Shopee or Lazada

8. Lotus Garden Rake

Product Description:

Rake is a garden tool used to aerate compact soil by making the soil loose. It can also be used to remove dry leaves and other solid impurities in the soil. As compared to a shovel a full-size rake can cover a wider area.  Rake is typically made out of a durable forged steel head and steel or sometimes wood handle. 

•  Durable poly tines
•  Extra-wide raking head capacity

To purchase the product you can visit the store: Shopee or Lazada

9. Silicone Thumb Knife

Product Description:

This gardening tool can fit into your fingers and is generally used in agriculture, grape picking, beans picking, pepper picking, etc.

• Material: Silica Gel + Stainless Steel
• Color: Orange
• Thumb Cutter Size: 2.6x5.6cm/1.02x2.20inch; 2.3x5.1cm/0.9x2.0inch 
• Cut-resistant Finger Sleeve Size: 7x3cm/2.75x1.18inch 
• Weight: 0.1kg

To purchase the product you can visit the store: Shopee or Lazada

10. Cleaver Knife or Jungle Bolo

Product Description:

Perfect for gardening used for digging soils, cutting grass, or chopping small wood.  The blade is made out of steel and with a wood handle and is 13 inches long including the blade.

To purchase the product you can visit the store Shopee 

In summary:

When you start to explore the world of gardening you'll find that there's a lot to learn and it's also a fun world. This blog post has given you a little insight into ten basic garden tools for beginners. This article is a great way to help you especially if gardening is new to you and you want to learn more about the world of gardening.