33 ESSENTIAL Gardening TOOLS I Use All the TIME!

[Mandy Onderwater]

What tools do you like to frequently use? And if you have any not listed, post them down below!


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[Grandmother Goose]

Sieves! How did he miss sieves? And specifically for some veggies, drying/curing racks/tables.

I agree with his list, except that in my situation I'd have to swap auger for jackhammer.

 

[Mandy Onderwater]

Oh my, even I didn't think of those! To be fair, I don't use any

Hahaha

 

[Grandmother Goose]

I had a little giggle at the kitchen pots and pans at the end of the video, my grandmother used to find ways to turn ALL of her old kitchenware into gardening implements in one way or another. She had at least ten kitchens worth of kitchenware in the garden. Dinner forks stuck into pots and the ground prongs up worked for holding plant info cards, when they weren't being used as miniature small pot-plant size garden forks. Sieves that weren't used as sieves were turned into hanging planters. Pots that weren't used as containers of holding stuff had holes drilled in the bottom to be used for growing plants in. Wooden spoons for small garden stakes. Spatulas handle size down for larger garden markers. Old dinner plates and bowls for water catchers under pots. Drink cups of all sorts and sizes for rooting cuttings and containing small things. Spoons for measuring and adding small amounts of fertilizer to small pots, and everything and anything that was shiny - cutlery, utensils, cups, you name it, made reflective wind chime type devices to shoo birds away from fruit.