Buying Guides
Hands-on best-of roundups from the Garden Care team — every pick links to Amazon and helps support our work.
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Best Hori Hori Knives for Weeding
If you only own one hand tool, make it a hori hori. The serrated, pointed Japanese soil knife divides crowns,…
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Best Hedge Shears for Tidy Borders
Powered hedge trimmers are loud, leave a bruised cut, and are completely unnecessary for the small box, lavender or rosemary…
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Best Loppers for Thick Branches
Loppers cover the gap between hand pruners (anything you can squeeze with one hand) and a pruning saw (anything you'd…
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Best Garden Forks for Turning Compost
A border fork is a vegetable bed tool. A digging fork is a soil tool. A compost fork is its…
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Best Hand Trowels for Container Gardening
A trowel is the tool you'll touch a hundred times in a season, and a wobbly head or splintered handle…
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Best Pruning Shears for Roses
Rose pruning is the one job in the garden where a cheap pair of shears will cost you more in…
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Best Tomato Cages on Amazon
A six-foot indeterminate tomato in full fruit weighs more than most gardeners expect, and the flimsy three-leg cone cages you…
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Best Spades for Digging Heavy Clay Soil
If you've ever tried to turn over clay-heavy soil with a flimsy box-store spade, you already know the problem —…
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