Best Tools For An Overgrown Garden?

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Most people will want to jump for the Weed-Wacker, but there is going to be a set of tools that will be more beneficial to a gardener facing an overgrown plot.

To start, the best tool for a gardener is a solid pair of gloves, and these can provide protection when pulling thistles from the plot to prevent blistering when working with garden tools.

The next set of tools will be up for debate regarding which will be the best for routing out the weeds, clearing out unhealthy growth, and trimming up salvageable plants.

What Tool is the Best for an Overgrown Garden?

As mentioned above, nothing can replace a good pair of work gloves, including when tackling an overgrown garden plot. However, a garden trowel or garden fork could be more beneficial in cleaning up, and those with tough hands may take this route.

The basic truth is that the best tool for gardening, especially when cleaning up for the growing season, will be a good pair of hands.

Modern technology’s best aid for those hands will be the multi-tool that offers trimming, raking, weeding, and other capabilities as easy as switching out attachments.

 

What is the Most Important Tool Every Gardener Should Have?

Gardening is a year-round activity requiring a person to combat all conditions to protect and nurture the plants being grown. That being said, if the budget allows, after a pair of suitable gloves, every gardener should have an indoor growing space (or greenhouse space).

This is because of the various dangers that come with the changing seasons; frosts in the late fall and early spring can surprise a person, and bringing the vulnerable plants inside makes all the difference.

Not to mention that the greenhouse option will allow a wider variety of plant life to grow in your garden.

 

How do you Get Rid of an Overgrown Garden?

Let us see this sort of situation from an individual inheriting a garden plot with overgrown weeds, some flowers, and what looks like an attempt at growing vegetables. The plants reach out of their containment boxes and have begun growing outside of the plot squares.

In order to start from scratch, the gardener pulls all of the plants from the boxes along with any escaped growth outside of the plot space.

Most come up with a pull of human arms, but in order to have fresh soil, the gardener decides to till the soil and add some potting soil to replenish the nutrients that may have been lost to the garden plots.

 

How Long Does it Take to Clear it up?

This can be a long process depending on the size of your garden, but if we take a simple four to a ten-box garden plot, for example, it will take a solid day’s work to clear, prep the dirt, and reseed the plots.

The example is one that goes smoothly and does not have issues such as rock or stump removal.

More extensive gardens, including those in greenhouses, might take longer to clear up depending on the number of plants available.

In addition, there are going to be some setups with cutting, seedlings, and other potted plants that will take tedious amounts of time to remove, clean, and repurpose.

 

When is the Best Time to Do it?

The best time to clean out and prepare for the growing season would be at the end of winter, primarily when an ‘early spring’ event occurs. This is when the soil will be soft and malleable, which will allow a gardener to get into the dirt and even replace it when needed.

Another good time to do so will be at the end of the growing season when the colder temperatures of winter come calling in the later months. The option of transplanting plants into greenhouses and other indoor growing areas gives a gardener flexibility year-round.

 

Final Thoughts on Best Tools for an Overgrown Garden

Having a garden can provide food and a place to grow beautiful things, but also an activity by which a person can truly express themselves and grow ingredients for the kitchen.

When it comes to clearing an old garden or an out-of-control one, there are going to be simple steps that can be taken to revive the plot.

The idea is to create plots that grow what the gardener desires, and there are many green thumbs that grow medicinal herbs but also spices for the evening’s meals.

There is no limit to what a knowledge of horticulture can do for a person looking to grow their own crops and flowers.

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