A diverse inventory is used to work in the garden and garden, designed to make it easier to facilitate the process of processing the soil and leaving plants. Featuring suitable, convenient tools and devices for work on the site, it is possible to preserve their strength, as well as health. Careful care for gardening inventors and proper storage will ensure long service life.
Varieties of gardening inventory
For a long time, the garden equipment is traditionally used to care for plants, many adaptations are great for us. In recent decades, according to modern requests, its range has expanded significantly, a significant number of new tools and beneficial devices appeared. With their help, you can easily simplify everyday work on the gardening plot. The application of properly selected tools will significantly reduce labor costs on the site, avoid physical overvoltage, scratched hands and other inconveniences.
The following types of gardening inventory distinguish:
- for cultivation and manual processing of soil - loosening of light soil and pumping heavy soil, as well as breakdowns of beds and flower beds, planting plants, dipping, digging roots, unloading various bulk materials (sand, fertilizer, coal, land). This type includes shovels, rippers, rakes, cultivators, forks, as well as hoes, chips, etc.;
- auxiliary tools - for garden work in the form of vaccinations, trimming branches, crown formation and living hedges (secateurs, suchkores, brush cutters, garden hacksaws);
- related equipment in the form of a wheelbarrow, buckets, sunels, tanks and scoops for seedlings, frighters, folding chairs, stewing;
- mechanized - electric and gasoline (chain saws, seeders, mowers, cultivators, pumps);
- inventory for watering plants - Waters, sprayers and sprayers, garden hoses.
How to choose gardening inventory
In specialized stores you can buy a different garden inventory for work on the plot. From the proposed range, you need to choose high-quality tools to optimize certain types of garden work and at the same time reducing the concomitant load on the back, legs and shoulders. Having read the proposed assortment, think about how often and in what kind of objectives will apply this type of inventory, carefully read the characteristics of the product, as well as with the instructions for using it from the manufacturer.
When selecting an inventory for a garden and a garden, it is necessary to take into account its compliance with the following requirements:
- the ergonomic of the structure appears later in the convenience of operation. The selection criterion will first of all will be individual sensations when using inventors - take it in hand, try to evaluate how convenient for you and easily will use it, check the quality of the mounts. Make sure the tool cuttings are comfortable, suitable length and thickness;
- reliability and durability - Properly selected gardening inventory from wear-resistant materials will serve the years. Pay attention to the quality of the metal cutting parts of the tool - the ease of use and the force of pressure depends on it when working, obtaining smooth sections, the probability of appearance with rust time. The cuttings of tools from dense high-quality treated wood are practically not broken, they will not appear on their hands. It is convenient to use tools with the coating of the pens from polypropylene, as such handles do not slide and easily clean them. Cuttings made of lacquered wood, as well as plastic can slide in their hands, slower slowing down the work on the site;
- use of use - Check the reliability of fixing knobs with screws and rivets, mechanisms service;
- the ratio of quality and price is a cheap inventory breaking at the first significant load, it is worth preferred to better tools that will serve not one season.
The choice of material from which the functional parts of the hand tools are made directly contact with the soil and plants depends on its purpose.
How to choose shovels
Several varieties of shovel (heavy, bayonet, universal garden, as well as sovereign) are made.
Depending on the purpose, you can purchase the following types of shovel:
- for the loosening of the garden, the spade with a blade of high-quality steel is perfectly suitable - such a tool is distinguished by a low cost, while it will last for several years, not subject to corrosion, is well sufficient;
- the most durable and lightest, and the most expensive tools are tools with titanium blades;
- for cleaning snow on the site, shovels made of aluminum, plywood or plastic are used - these materials are significantly softer steel. This type of inventory is not suitable for use when carrying out earthworks.
The optimal is considered a stalk of shovel to the chest level, however, a wooden stalk can be subsequently adjusted by length, scuffing excess.
How to choose a rake
In the garden plot, this tool is used for the following purposes:
- for soil loosenings - metal rakes are suitable for a small width, with rigid almost straight teeth, a total of garden breasts. Selecting the appropriate rake in the store, check if their comb close or down when pressing the hand - in this case it is worth searching another model;
- to collect large garbage and weeds after weeding - in this case, it is necessary to prefer robbles with long teeth and a ridge with a reinforced fastening. It is recommended to choose a model height into human growth;
- to collect small debris and leaves - fan rakes from steel or plastics with soft teeth are suitable. The height of this product may exceed the growth of the gardener. Such products are used, among other things, to crack the bevelled grass and cleaning lawns from small garbage.
How to choose chops and hoes
These types of gardening inventory are used for soil loosening, weed removal, as well as plants. At the same time, the chipsets are convenient to use for loosening of the soil of rods. As in the case of shovels, products from titanium and alloys are the most durable.
The optimal thickness of the hoe blade is 2-3 mm. To enhance and loosening, it is recommended to choose products for the garden of the garden breast.
How to choose braids and forks
Choosing a braid, pay attention to the quality of its blades - when you hit the hand, high-quality metal will publish a clean ringing sound. Modern models with an ergonomic handle are comfortably curved, besides equipped with a resistant handle adjustable.
For the processing of the soil, overloading of the hay and compost materials, as well as the digging of the root of the roots are used. The following types of their varieties are manufactured:
- for loosening soil and removal of weeds, models with sufficiently powerful teeth are used. Such forks are equipped with a solid thick cutlets of small length;
- to transfer herbs, hay or compost use products with long teeth and cutlets.
When buying, make sure that the teeth of the product of the same length and thickness are located with equal intervals. There should be no marriage in the form of chips and cracks in the places of welding of teeth.
How to choose buckets and watering can
Exercise manual watering on the site is convenient from watering can with different nozzles. For the transfer of fertilizers, harvest, as well as for other business needs, use buckets. Usually, several varieties of similar products from various materials are used in the garden plot.
It should be borne in mind that plastic buckets and leaks are not recommended to be stored under the influence of direct sunlight. Galvanized products should not be left for a long time in contact with water and damp soil, since the zinc coating is spoiled from moisture and rust appears.
How to choose sectors and suchkores
When choosing a secret, pay special attention to the quality of the metal from which the cutting parts of the tool are made. Garden scissors from the hardened steel of well-known manufacturers of garden inventory (for example, German, Finnish and Swedish) are considered the highest quality. To remove dry branches on the shrub, models with short handles and blades equipped with teeth are suitable. Crop thick branches are conveniently used by a long handle.
Suchcores is a large scissors equipped with long handles. This type of garden inventory is used to trim small dry branches, as well as the design of the crown of trees and shrubs. When choosing a suitable model, consider the quality of the material of the manufacture, as well as the diameter of the cropped branches and branches.
How to choose garden knives and saws for bakes
Saws are made for boring various shapes and sizes, including small compact models. Saw-such-seams equipped with telescopic handles will be suitable for removing unnecessary branches in hard-to-reach places.
The garden knife is useful for vaccination (it is convenient for them to make long and even cuts), trimming of bans and shoots, billets of cuttings. The convenience of using this tool, first of all, depends on the blade - it should be durable and sharp made of high-quality metal.
Care for inventors
To the garden inventory to serve for many years, it is necessary to carefully care for him. Do not forget about the right storage, because the tools need to be leaving - periodic cleaning, sharpening and lubrication. Take a rule after each application to thoroughly clean the gardening inventory from the Kitsiev Earth and plant residues (bark, grass, manure and weeds) and dry, and then put in a dryly shaded place. Otherwise, the tool will quickly deter and serve the tool will quickly deteriorate and last long.
The eating rust lighting should be written from the tool using a wire brush, a more resistant layer will be necessary to be processed using a special rust removal agent. Cutting parts of garden scissors, knives and saws followed after each application, wipe the tissue napkin, moistened with a disinfectant (for example, alcohol), flush with clean rag and thoroughly dry. Tool blades can be sharpened using bars or grinding stone.
In order for the corrosion not to eat metal parts of the inventory, it must be periodically lubricated (using solidol, lithol, vegetable or machine oil, as well as special lubricants that can be purchased in stores). For the processing of nonlackated metal parts of the handles, flaxseed oil is suitable.
How to Store Garden Inventory
Do not leave tools after opening outdoors. To accommodate garden and garden equipment on the site you need to create certain conditions. It is necessary to allocate for the daily storage of garden inventory dry and ventilated place. Thus, it will be possible to protect it from the appearance of fungus and corrosion under the influence of moisture, as well as from cutting parts made of wood, under the influence of sunlight and high air temperature. Proper storage of gardening inventory contributes to maintaining its working condition for many years.
Often shovels, chips and rakes, as well as other inventory are placed in a barn or garage, where there are some free space for these purposes. It should be noted that it is not enough for effective storage. Cleaning and smearing the inventory, it must be placed in specially equipped compartment for these purposes (container, wooden box), where the above conditions may be observed.
Storage inventory inventory
At the end of the garden of gardening, it is necessary to take care of where and how the appropriate inventory will be stored until it needs to be needed next year.
How to prepare gardening inventory for winter storage:
- all the inventory used on the plot must be carefully cleansed from the layer of earth and the remains of plants, and then wipe or wash and dry. Leave it for several hours in the sun either in a well-ventilated place until complete graze - it is necessary to get rid of moisture in a variety of slots and joints of the inventory;
- wooden handles and cuttings need to be cleaned and polished. To increase durability, it is recommended to cover them with varnish;
- then you need to apply for metal parts with lubrication. To store the inventory, highlight the right well ventilated and dry place, the tools must be accommodated vertically, or hang onto the wall on a special rack over the floor level - so as to protect them from the effects of moisture and the subsequent corrosion. Do not put the tools vertically on the edge, otherwise it quickly fills;
- acute objects - various secateurs, garden scissors, saws and hacksaws are placed in covers, wrap in a newspaper or parchment paper and stored in a closed form. In the absence of a special cover, the saw blade can be covered, put on them a piece of garden hose with a longitudinal slot pre-made by a longitudinal slot, and storing, biting in a rag or in the sleeve of an old jacket. Garden scissors are recommended in open state, thanks to this spring in them will remain a tight longer.
Gardening equipment (electric, gasoline and rechargeable equipment - cultivators, seeders, chainsaws, etc.) should be placed on storage, carefully examined the manufacturer's instruction, in a dry and ventilated, as well as a reliably closing room.
Inventory Care Spring
With the onset of the new garden season, it will only be left to get an inventory from the shed. For the winter, wooden parts of the tools can dry out a bit, from this attachment in places compound with wood weaken, and the tools can be loosened when working.
It is possible to achieve a thick fixing of the garden of gardening equipment as follows - put the tools for a day or two in the water. Under the action of moisture, wooden pieces will swell a little, as a result of this, the backlash will leave. The same procedure can be done with a joinery tool flying from the handles.
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