Name your favorite gardening tools?

Some of my favorite, don’t go into the garden without them, tools are my Felco pruners. If I walk outside my back or front door you can be sure the pruners are in my hand or at least resting on the steps easily ready for me when I need them. I always need them BTW.

I often also have a pair of scissors handy – left handed ones of course, and some plastic green garden ribbon / tape, or velcro ties.

I like a tidy garden, so snipping and pruning are chores that often take place even when I only mean to go outside and wander through the garden for a quick peek at what’s blooming that day. Therefore my bamboo stakes are in a handy area of my “under the back porch” storage area.

One other tool that is almost always nearby when step into the garden is my hand trowel. I don’t use it so much to dig up plants as to pat down holes that squirrels or cats have dug etc. Of course in the spring and early summer I usually do use it for digging and planting.

Oh yes my camera almost always makes the trip to the garden too – you never know what you might find that’s photo worthy.

So which tools do you use most often in the garden and why are they your favorites?