tle (tools)

• SPADE (PALA)


  Used for digging, planting, hoeing, shoveling, and cutting lawn edges
• RAKE (KALAYKAY)


  Used to make a fine seedbed, to open and close seed-drills, to remove lawn clippings and leaves, to tear out moss and dead grass, and to freshen up graveled areas and flower beds
• HOE (ASAROL)

  Has a flat blade on a long handle used for cultivating and loosing soil around the plants
• TROWEL (DULOS)


  A small tool with a curved blade that is used by gardeners for digging holes
• SECATEURS


  Ideal for dead-heading, and for cutting flowers and foliage for indoor use
• Pruning shear


  Made of iron fitted with wooden handle. Used to prune unwanted branches, collection of scions, trimming of the edges and hedges and topiary work
• Scythe


  Long knifed, fitted with wooden handle. Used for slashing of weeds
• HEDGE-CLIPPERS


  Essential if there is a hedge to be trimmed, but they can also be used to keep lawn edges
• WATERING CAN


  A container that is used to pour water on plants
• GARDEN LINE (TULOS at PISI)


  A simple piece of equipment for getting lines of vegetables, bedding, roses and hedging straight
• PRUNING SAW

  Useful tool in an established garden with trees and shrubs, it is essential if sizeable branches have to be removed
• RIDDLE or GARDEN SIEVE


  Very useful for sieving out coarse pieces of moss peat
• Grafting and budding tools

  • Knife
  • Furrow opener
  • Hand leveler
  • Axe
  • Hoe-cum-Rake
• Essential materials needed for propagation

  • Tying and wrapping materials
  • Grafting wax
  • Labels
  • Pots
  • Iron pan
  • Hose pipe
  • Spray-pumps
  • Wheelbarrow
  • Chain saw
  • Chain weeder
• Iron pan: It is made of iron and used for transporting pot mixtures, potted plants through head load from one place to another for short distance.
• Hose pipe: This is available in convenient length. Irrigation to nursery plants is made possible to any extent.
• Spray-pumps: To spray protective material i.e., insecticides/pesticides/fungicides to eliminate the infection of pathogens or insects, spray pumps are very important tools. Pumps are of different shapes, size and types. Commonly used sprays are knap-sack sprayer, rocker sprayer, foot sprayer, hand sprayers or power sprayers.
• Wheelbarrow: It is manually operated small trolley, used for carrying nursery plants, compost, fertilizes, leaf litter, horticultural produce, stones etc. from one place to another place. It can be designed into different shapes according to requirement
• Chain saw: It operates using fuel (petrol/kerosene). It aids to cut wood logo bigger size and lopping of branches and shoots.
• Tying and wrapping materials: It is essential to hold scion and stock firmly together to have successful graft/bud union. For this purpose, a suitable tying or wrapping material is required. Generally, polyethylene tapes/strips, waxed string and cloth, raffia fibro and rubber strips are used for this purpose In addition, adhesive tapeslike surgical adhesive tapes but lighter in weight are also used by commercial nursery men
• Grafting wax: Wax is used by propagator to seal the graft union for preventing moisture loss and desiccation of cells at cut surface and to prevent the decay of wood by way of checking the entry of pathogens.
• Labels: Labels are used for proper labeling of plants before sale. Labels may be made of paper, cardboard, wooden, celluloid, aluminum, and plastic etc
• Pots: Pots of different shapes and sizes are used in nursery. They may be of clay, metal, or plastic usually 10cm, 15cm or 20cm for single specimen. Pots are of different types, tube pots, % size, 1/2 size,3/4 size and full size. These are used for potting ornamental plants, fruit plants, saplings etc. Iron pots/plastic pots are used for irrigation purpose also.
• Chain weeder: It is operated by petrol/diesel/kerosene. It is used to slash the weeds on large scale.
• Knife: Knives having combined blade for grafting and budding purposes. A grafting/budding knife has a straight 7.5cm long blade and strong long handle. It has a spatula at the end of a handle, which is used for lifting the bark during budding operation. Sometimes knife has two parallel double blades, used specially for lifting or removing the patch of a bud from the budwood. Generally, these knives have either a folding or fixed blade. The blade of knife should be made from high carbon steel and should always be very sharp.
• Furrow opener: It is used for opening narrow and shallow furrow after sowing seeds in nursery.
• Hand leveler: It consists of narrow rectangular metal blade attached to long wooden handle.
• Axe: Iron blade, fastened to wooden handle. It is used for felling trees and cutting branches.
• Hoe-cum-Rake: It is of rectangular shape metal blade with fork like fore edge. It is used for digging, hoeing, earthing, leveling, and collecting weeds.