The Right Tools for Your Lawn

A beautiful lawn is not conceived without the appropriate tools. Its preparation and maintenance require a fairly large number of specialized equipment.

Here is a reminder of all the essentials to have on hand to have a beautiful lawn.

Tools and Their Use:

Fork-To-Tail (Or Tiller If the Lawn Is Large)

Useful for plowing the ground: operation essential to the beauty and the health of your future lawn.

Claw or Fang

Fine-tune the soil after working with the fork.

Pruner and Lopper

Allows you to trim the borders of the lawn. Can be replaced by a sharp blade with a flat blade.

Rake

Used to carefully rake the ground and level its surface.

Roller 

It is used for:

• To strengthen the land and stabilize the land.
• Sinking the seeds into the soil after sowing.

To maintain the lawn, it must be done after the first mowing of the year, then 2 to 3 times a year to promote the cutting of the lawn and relieve the weeds heckled by the passage of the mower, by freezing or thawing.

Hoe

Eliminates weeds germinated during a false-sowing.

Spreader

It is used for:

• Spread the grass seeds evenly.
• Spread the necessary fertilizer to your lawn.

The spreader can be portable if the area to be sown is small, or mounted on wheels for a larger area.

Lawn Mower (With Teeth with Curved Ends)

• It is used for sweeping mowing residues and dead leaves.
• Ideally, 2 brooms are needed: one to pick up the mowing residue, the other, and more flexible, to pick up the leaves.

It is essential to regularly cut grass. Model to choose according to the surface of the lawn. The blade of the mower must be sharpened regularly.

Grass Shears

Used to cut clean grass that would have escaped the mower. The blades of the shears must be sharpened regularly. 

Hedge Trimmer

It allows to fine tune the work of the mower by delimiting perfectly the perimeter of the lawn.

Weeding Tool and Weed Knife

Ideal for extracting scattered weeds.

Scarifier (Mechanical or Motor)

The scarifier is used to make incisions in the ground to cut the felt of the lawn.

Aerator (Or Aerator Shoes for Small Lawns)

Allows aeration of the soil in depth (10 cm).

Sprayer

Used to spray treatment products (weed killer, etc.)

Watering Equipment (Hose and Diffuser or Lawn Sprinkler System)

Allows watering the lawn in a fine and regular way.

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