manual gardening tools

Gardening used to be something quite different from what it is now. We realize it when we now go to a garden center and we look around us and find out an amazing array of products like electric and gasoline mowers, hedge trimmers, string trimmers, shredders, tillers, and so on..

But gardening hasn't to be like so. Some new types of gardening equipment are too polluting, too energy-inefficient, and too noisy and pricey… Gas-powered mowers are particularly pollutant, but emissions from other yard equipment (tillers, line trimmers, snow blowers, leaf vacuums, chainsaws…) are also a very important source of pollution.

Considering cleaner gardening options

We may, of course, consider cleaner gas and propane equipment or in some cases even solar options. And we may consider electric equipment, which is greener...

But the role of manual garden tools shouldn't be underestimated. We can't refuse progress and technological improvement in our yards, but we shouldn't also forget that gardening will not be gardening if mainly based in overkilling machines, often rather useless.

New improved manual gardening tools

There are now new improved and lightweight manual garden tools, that can make mowing, tilling, pruning and other gardening activities easier, without pollution or noise. For reviews and ratings involving manual gardening tools, you may take a look at the Amazon.com offer and the dozens or hundreds of customer reviews associated to them:

- Axes
- Cultivators and Tillers
- Forks
- Grass Shears
- Hand Hedgers
- Hand Shears
- Garden Hoes
- Loppers
- Machetes
- Manual Lawn Aerators
- Manual Weeders
- Picks
- Pruners
- Rakes
- Saws
- Scissors
- Shovels
- Spades
- Trowels
- Tool Sets

Ideas for a more Green gardening

Other more radical solutions – namely for larger yards – may involve new types of gardening and landscaping. There are new concepts of landscaping, involving native plants (to save water, for instance) and other strategies for energy efficiency and a greener gardening. See, namely, EPA smart landscaping