LANDSCAPING TOOLS AND MATERIALS
Hand Trowel
Garden trowel, a tool with a pointed, scoop-shaped metal blade and wooden,
metal, or plastic handle. It is used for breaking up earth, digging small holes,
especially for planting and weeding, mixing in fertilizer or other additives, and
transferring plants to pots.
Pruning Shears
Pruning shears, also called hand pruners (in American English), or
secateurs, are a type of scissors for use on plants. They are strong enough to
prune hard branches of trees and shrubs, sometimes up to two centimetres
thick. They are used in gardening, arboriculture, farming, flower arranging, and
nature conservation, where fine-scale habitat management is required.
Garden Gloves
Worn to protect the hands from soil, water or cold. They may be constructed
from lightweight cotton, leather (or a combination), or from a water-proof
material such as rubber.
Rake
A rake (Old English raca, cognate with Dutch raak, German Rechen, from the
root meaning "to scrape together", "heap up") is a broom for outside use; a
horticultural implement consisting of a toothed bar fixed transversely to a
handle, or tines fixed to a handle, and used to collect leaves, hay, grass, etc.,
and in gardening, for loosening the soil, light weeding and levelling, removing
dead grass from lawns, and generally for purposes performed in agriculture by
the harrow.[1]
Digging Shovel
A shovel is a tool for digging, lifting, and moving bulk materials, such as soil,
coal, gravel, snow, sand, or ore.
Most shovels are hand tools consisting of a broad blade fixed to a medium-
length handle. Shovel blades are usually made of sheet steel or hard plastics
and are very strong. Shovel handles are usually made of wood (especially
specific varieties such as ash or maple) or glass-reinforced plastic (fibreglass).
Garden Spade
A spade is a tool primarily for digging, comprising a blade – typically narrower
and less curved than that of a shovel – and a long handle.[1] Early spades were
made of riven wood or of animal bones (often shoulder blades). After the art of
metalworking was developed, spades were made with sharper tips of metal.
Before the introduction of metal spades manual labor was less efficient at
moving earth, with picks being required to break up the soil in addition to a
spade for moving the dirt. With a metal tip, a spade can both break and move
the earth in most situations, increasing efficiency.
Garden Hoe
hoe is an ancient and versatile agricultural and horticultural hand tool used to
shape soil, remove weeds, clear soil, and harvest root crops. Shaping the soil
includes piling soil around the base of plants (hilling), digging narrow furrows
(drills) and shallow trenches for planting seeds or bulbs. Weeding with a hoe
includes agitating the surface of the soil or cutting foliage from roots, and
clearing soil of old roots and crop residues. Hoes for digging and moving soil
are used to harvest root crops such as potatoes.
Hose + Spray Nozzles
an attachment to the end of a spray rod or hose that causes the liquid to be
delivered finely and evenly as a spray.
Wheelbarrow
A wheelbarrow is a small hand-propelled vehicle, usually with just one wheel,
designed to be pushed and guided by a single person using two handles at the
rear, or by a sail to push the ancient wheelbarrow by wind. The term
"wheelbarrow" is made of two words: "wheel" and "barrow." "Barrow" is a
derivation of the Old English "bearwe" which was a device used for carrying
loads.
Loppers
Loppers are a type of scissors used for pruning twigs and small branches, like
secateurs with very long handles. They are the largest type of manual garden
cutting tool.
They are usually operated with two hands, and with handles typically between
30 centimetres (12 in) & 91 centimetres (36 in) long to give good leverage.
Some have telescopic handles which can be extended to a length of two
metres, in order to increase leverage and to reach high branches on a tree.
Loppers are mainly used for the pruning of tree branches with diameters less
than 5 centimetres (2 in). Some of the newer lopper designs have a gear or
compound lever system which increases the force applied to the blades, or
a ratchet drive
Weeder
The head of a weeder.
A number of common weeding tools are designed to ease the task of removing
weeds from gardens and lawns.
Hori Hori Garden Knife
A Hori-Hori, sometimes referred to as a "soil knife" or a "weeding knife", is a
heavy serrated multi-purpose steel blade for gardening jobs such as digging or
cutting. The blade is sharp on both sides and comes to a semi-sharp point at the
end.
Spading Fork
A garden fork, spading fork, digging fork or graip is a gardening implement,
with a handle and several (usually four) short, sturdy tines. It is used for
loosening, lifting and turning over soil in gardening and farming. It is used
similarly to a spade, but in many circumstances it is more appropriate than a
spade: the tines allow the implement to be pushed more easily into the ground,
it can rake out stones and weeds and break up clods, it is not so easily stopped
by stones, and it does not cut through weed roots or root-crops. Garden forks
were originally made of wood, but the majority are now made of carbon steel or
stainless steel.
Pruning Saw
A pruning saw has a long blade, usually with a curved handle, and is used for
cutting through green or dry wood.
Edger
An edge tri mmer or lawn edger is a tool, either manual or motorised,[1] to form
distinct boundaries between a lawn, typically consisting of a grass, or other soft
botanical ground cover, and another ground surface feature such as a paved,
concreted or asphalted area, or a granular material such as sand or gravel, or
simply uncovered soil, for example an unbounded garden.[2]
BICOL STATE COLLEGE OF APPLIES SCIENCES AND TECHNOLOGY
NAGA CITY
LANDSCAPING MATERIALS
AR. IAN KENNETH ORASA
INSTRUCTOR
JONALD R. NUÑEZ
BSA 3 – A STUDENT
