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We can't garden without these | Josh's Favorite Garden Tools



Come see my MUST-HAVE garden tools, how I use them, and how I condition and care for them so they’ll last forever!

For more information and links to all my favorite tools, visit the blog post here: https://homesteadingfamily.com/best-tools-for-the-garden

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33 Comments

  1. Earthy Artist

    Dad gave me my several of his garden tools from the 1940's-1960's they are my favorites. I also have newer garden tools but prefer Dad's. I keep my garden tools protected in the shed to keep moisture away. Moisture can get in between the wood & metal parts of a tool and cause the tool to come apart due to constant thawing and heating from damp changing weather.

  2. Meg McGinnis

    My favorite garden tool was my husband's grandfather. He loved to garden. It's a 4 pronged metal rake with a long wooden handle. The metal is hard and really well made. I use it to weed and to smooth out soil between rows. What's really cool is you can feel wear he held it. The wood is just a little more worn there and your hand fits in it… just feels good to hold and work with.😊

  3. Joint Heir

    Josh, my husband has been farming all his life w/his family's biz. What they do with their shovel to help cut through the clay-based soils in the San Joaquin Valley of California is they sharpen the edge of the shovel blade to help cut through some really hard ground.

  4. Arden Peters

    we're still under two feet in most areas! Priest River. First winter for us. came from year round gardening area! soooo ready. oh yes wood handles. our son bought a fiberglass shovel. it's what he asked for for his birthday! BUT… you get splinters from handle after a few years ouch.

  6. Nelky

    Long handles good for tall people. I'm all of 5 feet exactly. The standard handles work for me, lol. Only benefit being short.

  7. Renae Sutton

    A long handle may be needed for a taller individual but a long handle is a detriment to a shorter person as it is just too cumbersome at times in my opinion, as a height challenged woman that is lol.

  13. Nancy Hjort

    I'm 66 years now but I still remember my Grampa cleaning and caring for his tools in the shed. I remember his garden. I recall the smell of the shed and the dentyne gum in his front pocket shirt. He passed when I was 5 years old. I am a born gardener myself and love his heritage to me. I take care of my tools because of his influence.

  15. Jeff Nelson

    Just found your channel and I like it. My grandparents took really great care of the tools that they used everyday. So everything that you did in this video is almost what they did. But my grandfather would put lit coat of used oil on the garden tools after using to keep them from rusting. Thanks for your video it brought back beautiful memories of my grandparents ❤️

  19. Cheryl Denkins

    I'm 63 and you are only the third person I've heard call the garden rake a hard rake. It's a garden, or bow rake. The other is a leaf rake. I'm 5'6" and love 6' handles on rakes and hoes. So much easier to use.

  20. Mindy

    We have estate auctions in my area I have found that they are a great source for good garden tools

  22. Jerkin McDikus

    Do y'all have a gasifier?
    Or do y'all use wood gas it's a great alternative to gasoline and you're practically surrounded by fuel

  24. Ona Muir

    Thank you! I have lovely tools from my grandfather. 1930-1940 "editions". Can not wait for some moderate temps to do the care and put them to the job. Also, glad I am a saver and did not let them go! 🤗

  25. Chancey Wages

    a simple bastard file works wonders on keeping a decent edge on anything. as a ex-firefighter we would keep an edge year round and every spring sand the handles then rub them with a cotton rag soaked in boiled linseed oil until your arm is soar it'll make last decades. my favorite axe is from world war 2 and can still shave with it.

  27. RD Wakefield

    We always need to be good stewards of what the Lord God has provided to us.

    Thanks for the vid…

    We used to garden for years before the Lord took everything from us…now He has graciously given the wife and I a little over two acres in WV and we are already planning a small garden this year…

    May the Lord bless your growing season with a bountiful harvest.

  28. NDCntrygrl

    Boy, sure wish we'd have gotten that much snow here in ND. Our snow is already gone and we have fire ban warnings already. Not boding well for gardening season. 🥺

  30. Shy Guy

    Need to come up with an attachment that goes on the tip of wood handle to extend them

  31. Winfield Johnson

    Lol, that's a trowel, not a spade. That shovel with the long straight blade is a spade….Sorry, my OCD acting up….

  32. heidigib01

    So ivstarted refurbishing my dads old tools and some I’d picked up too. I sanded a ton and so far 2 layers linseed oil. I’m going to try to putty a very damaged section. They look better and I’m sharpening and oiling metal parts next. Thankyou for putting a bee in my bonnet about this. It honestly never occurred to me that there was something that I “ new gardener, not very handy and few tools” could do to improve these beautiful (now) pieces of my history.

  33. Laurel Anderson

    Josh, now that is the end of the season, do you have a comparison review between the Hula Hoe and the new diamond shaped hoe from Homestead Iron?

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