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A gardener is only as good as their tools. Whether this (admittedly heavily revised) adage resonates with you or not, there aren’t many people who get enjoyment out of working with poorly made, ill-designed equipment. Buying a carefully curated — and professionally manufactured — gardening tool set gives you everything you need to tidy up your lawn, prune shrubbery small and large, or trim and transplant windowsill herbs in one easy click of the checkout button. It’s also often cheaper to buy horticultural tools in a set than individually. In other words, if you’re impatient to get a garden started, indoors or out, save time on the setup with a garden tool set.
The sets in our list below have overwhelming positive user reviews, ensuring we adhere to the “top-rated” claim in the article’s title. While all the rigs we’ve listed have great ratings, user-approved standouts include a houseplant tool set by Fiskars (few people today can resist a home overflowing with plants) and a time-saving cordless electric string trimmer and leaf blower set by Worx. Other considerations in our selection process included a focus on garden-dedicated brands, like Garrett Wade and Spade to Fork, the inclusion of specialist gardening sets for mini succulent and container herbs, and kits we (and purchasers) simply thought were truly clever, like the garden tools and bag-turned-folding seat set by Uncommon Goods. Quality materials and construction matter to us, too; look out for sets that include hand-forged, solid steel tools and aprons of sustainable linen.
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A Garden Tool Set For Minimalist Plant Cultivators
Spade to Fork Forever Garden Trowel and Cultivator tool set. – Spade To Fork
Some gardeners prefer to keep things lightweight, swearing that all you need for any horticultural chore is a quality trowel and fork. And that’s exactly what the almost $30 Spade to Fork Forever Garden Tool Set contains. Made of solid brushed aluminum, this simple pair of tools is designed for lifetime use and works for everything from planting seedlings to digging out weeds. Happy customers echo this claim, saying in reviews that the items are sturdy and comfortable to hold. Plus, the silver finish looks great hanging in a garden shed.
Look After Your Houseplants With This Tool Set By Fiskars
A person using a Fiskars trowel to dig up soil around their houseplants. – Fiskars / Amazon
Hoping to cultivate some colorful houseplants that will perk up your indoor space? For the most part, indoor plants require more specialized care than those growing outside. Get their water, fertilizer, soil, and space needs just right or you risk wilting, dead greenery fast. A specialist garden tool kit like Fiskars House Plant Starter 4 Piece Tool Set sets you up for success for about $35. Don the gardening gloves to trim leaves with the bypass pruner, and repot root bound plants or distribute fertilizer with the trowel or cultivator.
Support Small Business With A Hand-Forged Steel And Black Walnut Garden Tool Set
A set of three high quality hand forged gardening tools made in the USA. – Fisher Blacksmithing
Buying from small or local businesses is, in most cases, better for the community and more sustainable. If you’re a supporter of handcrafted products, the Gardening Tool Gift Set from Fisher Blacksmithing in Bozeman, Montana, is well worth the asking price of over $216. The set contains three traditional steel gardening tools — a square hand hoe, a large planting trowel, and a three-tined garden rake — shaped using a forge, hammer, and anvil and finished with American black walnut handles. Reviewers mention the tools’ excellent ergonomics and unrivaled attention to detail.
Get A Leaf Blower And String Trimmer Set To Take Care Of Yard Work Fast
Two men using a leaf blower and trimmer in their backyard. – WORX / Amazon
While a lot of garden work is done by hand, there are some chores that could really benefit from an electrical boost. Yup, you guessed it! We’re talking about raking leaves from an otherwise pristine lawn and trimming edges of driveways, paths, and garden beds. The Worx 20V String Trimmer Cordless and Edger 3.0 + Cordless Leaf Blower Cordless with Battery and Charger set for under $140 makes light work of tasks that would take hours, or even days, if done by hand.
A Long-Handled Garden Tool Set With A Must-Have Wheelbarrow Thrown In
A person digs dirt using a Kobalt digging shovel. – Kobalt / Lowes
If you have a big garden, there are few tools more indispensable than a wheelbarrow. Use it to lug around everything from compost to fall leaves to gravel. In fact, these contraptions regularly feature in expert-compiled lists of garden essentials. Of course, you’ll also need some tools to rake up those leaves and shovel them into the barrow. The Kobalt Fiberglass Garden Tools & Wheelbarrow collection, a bit over $200 at Lowe’s, bundles a flat-free tire wheelbarrow with a steel garden rake, digging shovel, and transfer shovel.
An Affordable Starter Garden Tool Set To Cultivate Your Green Thumb
A comprehensive set of garden tools laying on the dirt in a garden bed. – ALLJOY / Walmart
A trowel, hand pruners, and a cultivator number among the top tools every gardener needs, but sometimes a newbie gardener needs a bit more support. Indispensable extras that make light work of tough outdoor chores include a weeder, hand rake, a mister, and strong yet pliable gloves. Thankfully, the extremely well-reviewed ALLJOY 9-piece garden tool set selling for under $30 at Walmart comes with all of that and more, including a nifty cotton and polyester blend bag to haul all the tools around your garden in.
Keep Your Shrubs In Shape With This Top-Quality Pruning Set
A set of three cast aluminum pruners by Garrett Wade lying on a wooden deck. – Garrett Wade
With all that chomping through hefty branches, pruners and shears get blunt fast. In fact, they number high among the gardening tools you should be sharpening regularly. If you go cheap on the brand or materials with these gardening essentials, you risk spending more time rasping them along a whetstone than shaping your rose bushes. The Garrett Wade cast aluminum pruner set costs a little over $45 and comes with a quality anvil pruner, good for dead wood, a bypass pruner for greenery, and the indicatively named flower cutter.
Invest In A GARTOL Garden Tool Set For The Loppers Alone
A set of garden loppers and shears lying on a wooden deck. – GARTOL / Amazon
If you need to tackle thicker branches or reach into treetops, you need a long-handled tool you can operate with two hands. It can, however, be tricky to know which style of lopper to invest in. Why not save yourself the bother and get a GARTOL 3-Piece Garden Tool Set for about $60? It comes with bypass loppers for clean cuts on hefty branches, hedge shears for shaping, and bonus pruning shears (or pruners) for those aforementioned delicate jobs. These loppers have telescopic handles for extra reach and heavy-duty blades.
A Bright And Cheerful Garden Tool Set For Kids
A colorful garden tool set for kids including three tools and a carry bag. – WorkGlovesDepot
If you have kids in your life, they need a set of children’s garden tools. Experts note that gardening encourages greater environmental awareness in children, builds social skills, and makes them more willing to eat their fruits and veggies. What better way to get the kids gardening than by giving them their own tools? The WorkGlovesDepot assorted kids’ garden tool set comes with a grass green rake, ocean blue shovel, and fire engine red trowel nestled in a rainbow-hued tote. The set costs about $8 and is suitable for ages 5 and up.
Start A Mini Succulent Garden With A Dedicated Tool Set
A cup holding tiny tools designed for succulents and mini gardens sits on a table next to some potted plants. – Ginsco / Amazon
Love plants but don’t have the space or time to grow a backyard full of vegetables and flowering shrubs? All you need to cultivate a teeny succulent garden is a sunny window and a set of dedicated mini garden tools. Succulents and their decidedly spinier kin are more delicate than they look; garden with regular-sized trowels and forks and you risk accidentally damaging their fleshy stems. Instead, spend just under $10 for the Ginsco 7 Piece Succulent Transplanting and Miniature Garden Hand Tools Set to keep your fragile desert flora safe.
A Specialist Herb Garden Tool Set Helps You Get The Most Out Of Your Fragrant Foliage
A set of tools designed for pruning and harvesting homegrown herbs. – Expert Gardener / Walmart
Most herbs will grow in containers in any small sunny spot indoors. You can even use regular garden tools to plant and care for them. Harvesting your headily scented produce effectively and efficiently, however, is better achieved with specialist tools. Expert Gardener Herb Tools Set, 4-Piece, about $13 from Walmart, contains 5 blade herb scissors and mini herb snips for trimming your plants without damaging them, a 9-hole herb stripper for removing leaves from stems once harvested, and a comb to keep all the tools clean.
A Garden Tool Set And Tote That Doubles As A Folding Seat
A person sits on a folding chair that doubles as bag holding a set of garden tools. – Oniva / Picnic Time
Gardening, especially when done outdoors, requires lots of bending, kneeling, and reaching. These movements can be challenging, especially for someone suffering from limited mobility, whether due to disability, illness, or aging. Giving yourself somewhere to sit when feeling fatigued, achy, or overworked may help you stay in the garden longer. The Gardener Folding Seat with Tools for about $90 from Oniva combines a sturdy but lightweight portable chair with a tool tote containing a garden fork, a weeder, a broad and a narrow face trowel, and a cultivator.
Who Says A Garden Tool Set Can’t Be Functional And Cute?
A person uses a cute floral patterned fork tool in the garden. – FLORA GUARD / Amazon
If you’re a gardening beginner, a little encouragement of the aesthetic kind might help you stay enthusiastic about the somewhat daunting task at hand. And that’s just what the petal-adorned FLORA GUARD 3-Piece Aluminum Garden Tool Set for just under $18 provides. Instead of the basic bare metal you see on standard garden tools, this trowel, cultivator, and pruning shear are completely covered in a pretty purple and blue bouquet of blooms. Reviewers say the surface decoration holds up well to wear and feels nice in the hand.
Gift Shopping For The Discerning Gardener? Consider This Luxury Tool Set
A gift box set for gardeners containing three hand-held gardening tools and an apron. – The Celtic Farm
Sure, you could just buy a bunch of tools separately, wrap them in some burlap, and call that a gift set. But if the person you’re gifting that to is particularly selective, the DIY route might be underappreciated. The Gardener’s Kit by Celtic Farm isn’t the cheapest at $75.99, but it could be worth the price if you’re shopping for a quality conscious green-thumbed friend or family member. They’ll get a sturdy linen cross-back gardener’s apron and a stainless steel and hardwood-handled trowel, fork, and scoop.
Read the original article on House Digest.
