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The tools and accessories used for fighting plant pests and weeds are of two kinds. The first is the equipment needed to afford physical safeguards for your flowers and vegetable plants and the second are those designed to apply pesticides and herbicides.

Protecting Your Garden Plants From The Cold

Of the first one of the most helpful among gardening implements is the covered frame. This frame is usually made up of a timber box, some eighteen inches to two feet square and approximately eight inches high, covered with glass, protective cloth, mosquito netting or insect wire. The first two coverings have, naturally, the further benefit of preserving heat and safe guarding your backyard garden plants from the cold.

Protecting your plants from freezing is a benefit that will enable you to plant sooner rather than later. You can use either glass or protective cloth extensively in getting an extra early and safe start with cucumbers, melons as well as zucchini and eggplant.

Simpler and easier devices for safeguarding newly-set fruits and vegetables, like tomatoes or cabbage, from the cut-worm, are stiff, tin, cardboard or tar paper collars, which are made several inches high and wide enough to be placed around the base and tall enough to be buried an inch or so in to the ground.

Protecting Your Backyard Garden From Weeds And Pests

For the purpose of applying poison powders, the backyard gardener may consider purchasing a powder gun. Though if you have to be restricted to a single tool, it will probably be better to acquire one of your hand-powered, compressed-air sprayers.

Compressed-air sprayers are designed for applying wet sprays, and at least one of the several types of mist-making nozzles will be included. The non-cloggable automatic model of compressed-air sprayer is the most effective. For further extensive work, a barrel pump, attached to wheels, is advisable, but any one of the above is going to do plenty of work in a short amount of time.

Extension rods to use in treating bushes and vines may be acquired for either the barrel pump or compressed air-sprayer. For the purpose of backyard gardening on a small scale, a sturdy hand-syringe can be employed, but as a general rule it will likely be best to spend a few dollars more and get yourself a compact tank sprayer.

Tank sprayers throw a consistent steady flow of spray and hold a considerably larger amount of the spraying solution. Whether you choose to buy a hand-syringe or tank sprayer, consider buying a brass one. Brass syringes and sprayers consistently out-wear those made up from more cost-effective metal. Such lower quality syringes and sprayers often succumb quickly to the corroding action of the powerful toxic compounds and chemical products used in them.

Other Backyard Gardening Tools To Consider

Of tools used for the purpose of harvesting, including the spade, prong-hoe and spading-fork, there are only a few being used in the small backyard garden, as most backyard gardeners do not need to plow long rows for being inexpensively used. The onion harvester accessory for the dual wheel hoe can be considered.

The onion harvester can also be used along with the benefit of loosening onions, beets, turnips, etc., within the garden soil for cutting spinach. Working your hand-plow tight on both sides of carrots, parsnips as well as other deep-growing veggies will certainly help extensively in getting all of them harvested.

For the purpose of fruit picking, with extra tall trees, your wire-fingered fruit-picker, attached to the end of any extended handle, will be of superb assistance, but with the present day technique of using low-headed trees it shouldn't be needed.

A different class of gardening tool are the type used for pruning but only where this is attended to properly in the first place. A very good, sharp jack-knife and a set of pruning shears will effortlessly tackle all of the trimming and pruning work necessary.