If someone had asked me if I had a favorite tool a year or so ago... I would not have had an answer since all my landscaping and gardening tools were simply there to help me make a living, but... When a back injury forced me to retire from professional landscaping, one of the things that concerned me...

This is not necessarily a story about the most vital tool in our back shed, but it is a fairly amusing tale. As part of the master’s in education program that my mother was completing some years ago, she was a student teacher at a local urban elementary school. One day she was working one on one with...

We have a kinda big yard and the one thing I use the most is my hedge clippers.My husband cuts the grass but I do all the trimming on the bushes,trees,and around the flowers.Our yard is about 2 acres and there is always something that needs some pruning done on it.

The one garden tool I could not live without and would not trade for anything is my Mantis garden tiller. I bought it probably 10 years ago, have used it extensively, and with the normal routine maintenance, it has always started every time. I use my Mantis for two main purposes: The first is to till...

The piece of equipment that I remember best was a 19" Toro "RecyclerMower". My parents picked it up used at some point in the late 80's - whenever it was that the idea of GrassCycling really took hold. Toro was marketing this piece of work as a mulching mower. It was the first I had ever heard of the...