Spring has finally arrived, and everything is rapidly turning green. Now is the time to start planting, pruning, and perfecting your garden so it is ready for your summer entertaining. Buildit provides an essential guide to everything you need to know when it comes to online garden supplies in South Africa.

Essential Spring Gardening Tasks

First of all, let’s get clear on what you need to do. Spring gardening is about cleaning up your beds and lawn after the winter, pruning dead or overgrown plants, preparing your soil and planting new seeds. Cleaning and clearing might involve removing debris and pulling weeds. You will then need to turn the soil and add some compost. You may even want to test the soil to check its nutrient composition and pH balance.

Once the soil is ready, you can start planting new plants, whether you buy them from a nursery or seed them yourself. You may also need to prune, trim, and neaten your shrubs, trees and bushes. Then, it’s a matter of nurturing and maintaining through the spring and summer. 

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The Gardening Tools You Will Need

To ensure that you are fully prepared for your spring garden maintenance, you will need a variety of tools and other equipment. These will include the following:

• Rake and broom: You will need these to gather up all the leaves and other debris in your flowerbeds and on your lawn.
  
• Spade: This is the backbone of your gardening arsenal, for turning soil, digging holes and preparing flowerbeds.
  
• Trowel: A smaller version of a spade, with a flat, pointed blade for digging small holes. Use this if you are planning to plant bulbs or transplant smaller plants from one location to another.
  
• Fork: You will need both a large and a small fork to help you loosen soil, weed your flowerbeds and break up clumps of soil.
  
• Pruning shears: These are essential for when you are cutting back branches or trimming overgrown foliage.
  
• Bucket and wheelbarrow: You will need containers that are easy to move around, in which you can carry soil, plants, debris, and other gardening accoutrements.  
  
• Hose, watering can: Always have one or two water-delivery tools on hand so you can give your plants all the water they need.

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Trust Buildit for All the Garden Tool You Needs

Buildit is one of South Africa’s leading suppliers of quality power tools, gardening supplies, and more. If you need any of the items on the list above, you will find them right here in our online store. Contact us for more information about our stores and product ranges, and for any DIY advice you might need.

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