Garden Tools
Good garden tools will save you time and energy
I have been gardening and homesteading for over 35 years and have used many garden tools. I have done a lot of fairly large scale hand farming when I was in my twenties and early thirties and it was lots of fun and really got me in touch with the earth and growing my own food.Now I am in my 50’s and really appreciate my tiller and mowers and hope to get a tractor soon as part of my retirement plan.
Garden tools
that almost all gardeners need with the possible exception of container
gardeners. 
Basic Hand Tools Good quality tools are nice to use and last a long time; cheap tools generally break pretty quickly. If you’re a beginning gardener you should start off with at least a medium quality tool. If you are an experienced gardener you already know that good quality tools are worth the cost.
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Power Tools
If
you have
a large garden or small farm or just like to work with machines;
A mower, tiller, chain saw and even a small tractor can come
in
quiet
handy.
I like to use a combination of hand farming and machines. I find that I get a lot of pleasure out of working quietly in the gardens but I like to do most of my bed turning with a roto tiller.
Pictured above is my daughter using our old troy built roto tiller. This was a great old tiller but after many years and lots of tilling it was worn down. I decided to get a BCS to replace it which I like even better.
I also have a BCS sickle bar mower attachment which fits right on my tiller. I use it to cut our small alfalfa fields.
My wife uses an electric battery powered rotary mower to mow in between her garden beds. She doesn't like the roto tiller and does all her gardening by hand. She uses a sheet composting method which is very nice and easy as far as hand farming goes.
Sheet composting uses a lot of compostable materials which we get from our milk cow and horse.
I also use this method on some of my garden beds but we just don't have enough sheet composting materials to do our larger farm crops. For our potatoes, corn, onions, garlic... I use a cover cropping (also known as green manure) system based on planting vetch and oats in the fall and then using my roto tiller in the spring to till it in. I also use buckwheat and soy beans as summer cover crops.
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