Top Most Useful Garden Tools
1. Long Handled Shovel - A shovel is the one everyone thinks of for gardening: a curved head, a long handle, prefect for digging and scooping soil. A long handle gives you better leverage for all of that digging. The curved, somewhat pointed head digs through hard packed soil and lawn with ease. Use this for everything from digging holes for shrubs, to scooping compost or mulch onto your beds.
2. Spade - This is the shovel that has a straight, flat head. This has a 
very thick steel head and shorter handle, although you can find long handled ones. Short handled could be use for edging beds and removing sod to prepare new beds. In gardening, a spade is a hand tool used to dig or loosen ground, or to break up clumps in the soil. Together with the fork it forms one of the chief implements wielded by the hand in agriculture and horticulture. It is sometimes considered a type of shovel. Its typical shape is a broad flat blade with a sharp lower edge, straight or curved. The upper edge on either side of the handle affords space for the used’s foot, which drives it into the ground. The wooden handle ends in a cross-piece, sometimes T-shaped and sometimes forming a kind of loop for the hand.
3. Hand trowel - This is the most-used tool in my garden shed. Use for: planting annuals, digging out stubborn weeds, potting up containers, and planting bulbs.
4. Hoe - This is the best tool for weeding in established beds. Just run this over the soil, and it cuts all those rotten little weeds off at the soil surface.There are two kinds: the stirrup hoe (which, go figure, looks like a stirrup!) and the regular hoe.
5. Bypass Pruners - These have curving blades that,
when you cut, end up next to one another. The other type of pruner is the anvil pruner, where the two blades just meet when you cut. Bypass pruners are perfect for light pruning of trees and shrubs, dead heading perennials and annuals, and cutting flowers for arrangements. They make a nice, clean cut that will heal easily.
