Every gardener needs to have gardening equipment of some type or the other. It is next to impossible to work in a garden without some kind of gardening equipment. The type of gardening equipment used depends entirely up on the size and type of your garden, the amount of time you are prepared to put in and lastly how much you can afford to spend.

Most gardeners do not go in for high tech or expensive gardening tools, but most have the utmost basic gardening equipments. Cultivating tools may be both power tools and hand held tools. The type of tool you buy depends on how serious you are about gardening and also how much you are prepared to spend. Basic hand held tools include shovels, forks, spades, trowels, rakes and diggers. These tools are used to prepare the garden for planting and are comparatively easy to use and not much strength is needed to use them. Other tools that may be used are pickax, wheel cultivator and mattock.

Power tools though a little more expensive are great time savers and make back breaking jobs easy. The tiller is one of the most essential gardening equipment. The tiller helps to break up the ground and prepare it for cultivating, chopping up debris, and can even help you in mixing fertilizer and compost. If you would rather not spend money on a tiller, you may hire a tiller or may be rent one for one time use at the beginning of the gardening season. Other popular power tools that you can choose from are chippers, chain saws and garden shredders.

You can not do without suitable pruning tools if you have hedges, shrubs or small trees in the yard. Pruning shears work well with branches not more than ¾" in diameter. For bigger branches of up to two inches you will need to have lopping shears. To reach branches that are high up you will have to get pole shears which can reach up to 15 feet high. The serious gardener might need larger, heavy duty equipment like pruning shears and hedge trimmers.

Another thing that you can not have a garden without is watering equipment. You need to water your plants regularly and without a minimum of a water hose you will find it a tiring task. It definitely does not rain when we want it too, so watering equipment is essential. If you would like fancier stuff you can opt for a drip irrigation system or may be a sprinkler system. If you are willing to spend some money you can buy timers for your drip or sprinkler system.

Gardening is near impossible without the right gardening equipment. Some people like to get down and dirty when they plant their flowers, but even such enthusiasts need tools like a spade or rake. Gardening may not prove to be so much of a pleasure without the proper basic equipments. Gardening equipments are an integral part of gardening just like seeds and soil.