You can tackle most gardening tasks (digging, planting, pruning) with the essentials; pick up any extras as you go, to ease your efforts.
□Gardening gloves
□Hand cultivator
□Handsaw (for pruning branches)
□Hoe (for weeding and mounding soil)
□Japanese weeder
□Lawn mower
□Secateurs (or hand pruners)
□Shovel (for hauling)
□Spade (for breaking ground)
□Trowel (for planting and weeding)
□Watering hose (with nozzle attachment) or watering can (for patio gardens)
□Garden fork (for turning soil)
□Hedge shears
□Hori hori (weeding knife)
□Loppers (or long-handled pruners)
□Plant markers
□Spring rake (for leaves)
□Weeder/edger
□Wheelbarrow