Gardener's Gear
Good tools to keep beside your spade
The spade opens the ground. These pick up where it leaves off: gloves and hand tools for planting, a can and a nozzle for watering in, and a rack to hang it all up after. Each one comes from a gardening maker we like.
- Chosen to work alongside a spade
- Shipped on its own, separately from any spade
- One checkout with your spade
The makers
- WomansworkGardening gloves designed for women's hands for more than 40 years, plus the aprons, hats and hand cream to go with them.
- Homestead IronGarden tools forged in the Ozark Mountains, from a family blacksmithing tradition.
- DrammWatering tools from Manitowoc, Wisconsin, since John G. Dramm designed his Water Breaker nozzle in the early 1940s.
- OrbitWatering and irrigation gear from Bountiful, Utah, since 1976.
- HangThis UpStarted by Tim Hoff in 2020 after building plywood storage for his own cluttered shed.
- Gourmet Gardener CorpGourmet Gardener brings Spirals and Twisters plant supports to gardeners in the US.
Shelf one
For your hands
Gloves for digging, planting and thorny beds, and something for after.
Digger Gardening Gloves
Cut for women's hands, with fingertips reinforced top and bottom for planting.
$21.956 colors
Arm Saver Gloves
Extra-long cuffs for roses, brambles and thorny beds.
$39.955 colors
Lavender Mint Hand Cream
For hands after a day of digging, or under your gloves while you work.
$17Shelf two
Hand tools
For the tight spots and fine work the spade leaves behind.
Compact Pruning Shears
Needle-nose blades for cutting flowers and harvesting vegetables.
$18.95
Hori Hori Digger
Weeds, saws through roots and opens planting holes, with depth marks for bulbs.
$28
Hand-Forged Large Trowel
High carbon steel blade on a hand-forged shank, with a hardwood grip.
$40Shelf three
Watering
For the new plantings the spade just put in the ground.
Shelf four
Out in the garden
Pockets for small tools, shade for long afternoons, and a rack to hang the long handles up after.
Gardener's Half Apron
Two big pockets keep hand tools close while you plant.
$346 colors
Cotton Sun Hat, Garden of Paradise
A wide-brim cotton hat in the same print as the Digger gloves.
$37.95
Stud-Mount Garden Tool Rack
Stud-mounted boards that hang long-handled tools up off the shed floor.
From$452 sizes
Spirals Multi-Stem Plant Supports, Set of 3
Gathers floppy peonies and other multi-stemmed plants; twist the head on at any stage.
$45
Twisters Extendable Plant Supports, Set of 3
Turns a garden cane into a climbing support for tomatoes and sweet peas, up to 7 feet.
$45Start with the spade
Every shelf here starts with a good dig
The Spear Head Spade starts the cut like a spear and finishes it like a spade. Not sure which size fits your garden? The finder asks a few quick questions.
