Favorite Tools For Vegetable Gardening

Today I am excited to share with you my favorite tools for vegetable gardening. Using the right tool for the right job makes for easier work!

Yesterday was the first day of spring, and that means it is vegetable gardening season! This weekend I need to get my beds all cleaned up and ready to go, so I am happy today to share with you my favorite tools for vegetable gardening.

The Right Gardening Tools Make for Easy Work

Vegetable gardening is easier when you use the right tools. Other than tools, mulch makes for easy gardening, with less weeds. So make your work in the garden more enjoyable, and therefore, more productive, by using the correct tools.

Many people quit vegetable gardening, because they find it too hard. Don't give up! Use the internet to find help, or bookmark my blog so you can come back and see if I have an answer for your question. You can learn tips here from how to water correctly, to which vegetables are best to grow in shade, to how to start your own seeds and more.

Any problem you are facing with your garden, Google is your friend, just search it out! I actually consider Google to be an awesome tool that I use all the time when a gardening or homesteading issue comes up that I am unsure how to handle!

My Favorite Tools for Vegetable Gardening:

#1: The Cobrahead Weeder and Cultivator tool is my all time favorite gardening tool.

I like this tool for tackling big weeds and little weeds easily. For big weeds, you just hook them and pull, and they come up so easily. For smaller tiny just germinated weeds, turn the hook on it's side and scrape along just below the surface of the soil to uproot them all.

It also works really well to loosen up compacted soil, for drawing a line to drop your seeds into, or for digging a hole to drop a plant start into. This is a must have tool in my opinion!

#2: The Hori Hori Digging Knife comes in as a close second.

I like this tool for several reasons. It makes digging a hole to drop a plant into super easy. I like it to cut off the roots of a plant when I am wanting to remove dead plants as I clean up the garden beds. I follow a no till practice, and instead of pulling up the whole plant root system and disrupting the soil, I prefer to leave the roots in to decay, and feed the soil.

This tool is perfect for that job! I have also been known to use the knife part to cut twine or my netted trellis or even cable ties!

#3: The Gorilla Cart Wagon is also a must have.

I use this for hauling weeds to dump, for hauling harvests into the house and for hauling compost from our bins to where it needs to go in the garden. I also using it for hauling out any purchased soil amendments from the garage out to the garden. I use it to empty out the chicken coops, and haul the spent bedding out to our compost area.

If I am spending the day working outside in the garden, this is always by my side. I love how you can lift the wagon part up simply, to dump it, just like a dump truck. I love how heavy duty these are....my tires are the only thing that have worn out on one of the 2 wagons we have, which were easily replaceable.

I have one just for use in the garden, and then we have another that we use for all of our chicken chores.

#4: The Suncast Outdoor Rolling Garden Scooter is a comfy seat and tool storage all wrapped up in one!

I like this garden scooter for a couple reasons. It has a cushy knee cushion on the top of it. The cushion can stay where it is for a comfy seat while you work, or if you need to kneel down and work, you can pop it off the cart and use it on the ground to cushion your knees.

It is just the right size for storing your garden hand tools, plant labels, twine, hoze nozzels, even a small sprinkler head! The lid shuts and latches nicely and it stays water tight in size. It comes with a nice little carrying basket for hauling your tools along or for harvesting a small bunch from the garden in.

#5: Melnor multi Pattern Metal Hoze Nozzle is perfect for all watering needs in the vegetable garden!

After going through many many hoze nozzle attachments over the years, this has become my favorite. I love how heavy duty it is, and all the many different spray patterns it has. From a light mist to a jet spray and everything in between. I especially love the jet spray for cleaning out chicken waterers....not veggie garden related, but a key selling factor for me!

#5a Dramm watering wand: Love this for a gentle yet soaking watering, perfect for seedlings and tender plants!

 

I recently started using this Dram watering wand for my seedlings in my greenhouse, and had to add it to this list as it is a new favorite!

 

#6: 5 Gallon Buckets are simple, easy, and get used all the time around here!

I use simple 5 gallon buckets around here for everything. We have one on our deck outside our kitchen door to collect kitchen scraps for the compost bin. I haul compost out in them to where I need it.

I use them upside down to sit on if they are handy. I fill them with weeds to dump in my wagon. We also use them to haul chicken feed out to the coops.....so yes, these are a must have for the vegetable garden and homestead!

#7 My greenhouse #1 and mygreenhouse #2 ... a must have in our short cool growing season here in the PNW!

Greenhouse #2: This is the Quictent 10x20 greenhouse that I am currently using

Having a greenhouse in my cool short growing climate allows me to grow tomatoes and peppers here in abundance. I have had this Quictent greenhouse for 4 years now. I did just reach out to the seller on Amazon to see if I could get a new cover for it, as the screen material in the doors and windows was beginning to disintegrate. They were easy to work with and sent me a new cover for about $100.

I grow a lot of vegetable starts to sell every year, and those are the first thing I put in the greenhouse. When the nights get warm enough for the tomato and pepper seedlings, they all get moved into the greenhouse as I up pot them. After my seedling sale, I fill the greenhouse every year with about 30+ tomato plants and at least that many peppers for our family. 

Greenhouse #1: This was my first greenhouse that I used for about 10 years, replacing the cover once in that time. It worked very well while we had it and I still highly recommend it.

Seed Starting & Gift Giving - Favorite Tools and Equipment

I have a whole post dedicated to the tools and equipment I use for starting seeds.  I also have a post for Mother's Day Gardening & Homesteading Gift Ideas as well as a Holiday Gift Guide for Gardeners.

A view of one half of our vegetable garden in early spring a few years ago.

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I hope you have found some new favorite tools for vegetable gardening here. Let me know if you have favorites not on my list in the comments so I can check them out!

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