The Top 3 Most Useful Gardening Tools

Hand Trowel: This is a must have in any garden. The hand trowel can be used for most jobs in the garden. From weeding, potting containers and planting bulbs this is a very versatile tool.

If you are limited to space or have a compact city garden, planters or just a patio area with risen boarders the hand trowel will serve you well and prove useful in any outdoor areas.

Invest in a sturdy tool to ensure many years of use.

Long Handled Shovel: Allows you to easily dig through compact soil and stubborn roots; the long handed shovel is an ideal tool. The long handle allows great manoeuvrability and leverage. Not only is this tool perfect for planting, it can also be used for digging an compost, tidying boarders and most manual jobs around your garden. Closely related to the long handled shovel is the common shorter handled spade. The spade is great for edging boarders and for creating the initial ground work for flower beds.

Hoe: An old favourite. If you are weeding established beds and boarders this tool is an essential. If you want to even the appearance of your soil and remove small weeds, simply run the hoe over the surface of your soil and to maintain well kept boarders - hoe the surface once a week to keep pesky weeds at bay.

Here at Keen Gardener we stock a wide variety of hand tools, spades, forks, rakes, loppers and secateurs. Whatever the job, you will be able to find the right tool for the job in our garden tools section.

Do you think we are wrong? are there more useful tools out there? we would love to know please leave a comment below.