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A garage can easily get cluttered with all the various landscape maintenance equipment needed to keep a landscape healthy, clean, safe, attractive, and well manicured. But do you really need all those tools?

The home gardener really only needs one good spade, a square shovel, a large and small rake, a hoe and a large and small trowel. Of course if you have a lawn you will also need a good lawnmower and a weed-eater.

The shovel, both the pointed spade and square shovel should be sufficient. The spade is the go to piece of equipment for all kinds of digging jobs. For making or smoothing out walkways the square shovel would be perfect.

Two rakes should be adequate, a large and small one. The smaller rake, maybe 6 to 8 inches wide is great for cleaning out the flower bed. A bigger rake will be needed to for the larger job of clearing leaves from the lawn.

A large and small trowel will be needed also. The smaller hand trowel is used in the spring to plant small seedlings. A longer handled trowel is needed for making rows in a vegetable garden.

Landscape maintenance equipment used for pruning is also very necessary and should be readily available. Shears are great for shaping a hedge and keeping it looking neat and tidy.

A back saving tool to add to your landscape maintenance equipment collection is the wheelbarrow or a garden wagon. The wheelbarrow can be used to mix cement, haul fertilizer or mulch, and transport large bushes or trees from area to another.

The lawnmower is a vital piece of landscape maintenance equipment. There are several types of mowers, which one you get depends on your needs.

Do you have a large piece of property? If so you would need a ride-on lawnmower. If you just have a small side yard to mow a small push mower would do the job. Most people need an in between size power mower. The power mowers are very versatile. They can be used for cutting the lawn, clearing brush, mulching, and even to pick up the leaves.

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