Favorite New Tools

In a previous post, I mentioned one of my favorite new tools, the CobraHead Weeder. Another favorite new tool is the Smith & Hawken Garden Tool Caddy. I first saw this in Horticulture magazine last year and finally bought one a few months ago. It's wonderful. It holds all the tools we tend to need in one compact, portable stand. It has a ring about three feet off the ground to hold long-handled tools (we keep our small-bladed shovel and narrow spring rake there) and a bucket with a canvas liner whose pockets hold small tools (for us, the CobraHead, two hand spades, pruning shears, a long serrated knife, a dandelion tool, edging shears, and a few other things I'm probably forgetting). The back of the caddy has a removable waste-basket, which we toss weeds into while working.

The caddy saves us the trouble of gathering together our usual tools whenever we go into the garden to work (or leaving them in the big garden cart, which then needs to be unloaded when we want to use it for something it's more suited to). I can just grab the caddy and be sure I'll have the tools I'm most likely to need.