Enjoying A Productive Garden

Three Garden Trowels To Buy

Your local garden center sells not only the seeds and plants that you can use to create the garden of your dreams but also a selection of tools that you can use to manage your garden. You'll find all sorts of handy tools that can perform various tasks, including trowels. It's common to see a selection of trowels for sale. While there are some trowels that you can use for a variety of jobs, there are others that are designed for specific tasks. You may wish to buy one or more of these trowels based on your gardening needs. Here are three garden trowels that you can find at your local garden center. 

Weeding Trowel

You can theoretically use any trowel for basic weeding tasks in your garden, but there are some trowels that are specifically designed for this important job. Weeding trowels have a narrow blade, which makes them stand out from their counterparts with wider blades. The narrow blade is designed to allow you to dig into the soil and loosen the roots of a weed without disturbing the roots of the plants that you have growing nearby. If you've ever loosened one of your flowers or vegetables while trying to weed around it, you'll understand how a narrow weeding trowel will make this work easier.

Planting Trowel

You can also expect to find a selection of planting trowels when you visit a garden center in your area. These trowels can be various widths, but their defining trait is that they have measurements marked on the front side of their blade. This will allow you to plant seeds at the recommended depth. For example, if you need to plant seeds half an inch deep, you won't have to estimate. Instead, you'll simply refer to the measurement tool on the trowel and dig the appropriate hole.

Sharp-Edge Trowel

You'll often find a few sharp-edge trowels for sale, and this tool can be useful because of its unique edge. You can use this type of tool to slice through old roots that are interfering with your garden. For example, if there are small-diameter roots that are in the soil that aren't attached to a tree or plant in your yard, they could be remnants from a tree that you or a neighbor recently cut down. With a sharp-edge trowel, you can slice through these roots and remove them with ease to create more space for your plants.

Visit a local gardening center to learn more.