subject: Tools For An Organic Garden [print this page] "Not only is organic gardening environmentally beneficial but those organic garden cultivators can also benefit from it financially. If you are planning to make an organic garden in your home you should know the basics in order for your organic plants and vegetables to survive. The first thing that you should consider in making an organic garden is to ask yourself whether you will cultivate vegetables or flowers or both.
Now, for the beginners it would be best if you would concentrate in one plant. Thus, if you are going to cultivate a vegetable, focus on it 100% and as soon as your vegetables are fully grown you may perhaps start planting another category of plants like flowers. This is because each type of plants needs special care.
When making an organic vegetable garden, these are the tools that you will be needing:
1. Rake - now, there are actually two types of rake that you can choose to use depending on your need. Bow rake is an ideal tool for preparing garden beds by removing stones, clods and the like. Straight rake, on the other hand, is ideal for smoothing the soil by its back end while its fork is used for removing leaves, weeds and figs on the ground.
2. Hand duster- this is a tool use to scoop out the compost fertilizer and for spreading the fertilizer on the ground
3. Measuring stick -To provide adequate rows or space for your plants in the garden, you will need this to measure the distance between plants.
4. Long-Handled Cultivator - You will use this to refine the soil that has large clods in them.
5. Garden cart - this is also called the wheelbarrow which is use when transferring soil, plants, tools etc. from one place to another.
6. Kitchen compost bucket - If you are planning to make a compost fertilizer, this will be needed. You will place this in your kitchen sot hat all your food waste will be collected and you will not need to go to your backyard every after meal to deposit it.
Wood, steel, plastic, fiber glass or perhaps a combination of the materials are among the materials that these organic garden tools will be made of. The type of plants you are cultivating in your garden and the size of your garden will determine what kinds of tools you will be needing.
