| Garden Tools Translated | ||
|---|---|---|
| English | Spanish | Description / Advice |
| Dibber | plantadora de punta | makes holes for seedlings and large seeds. |
| Fork | bielgo, bieldo | |
| Hoe | azadilla, escardillo | comes in many types. One of the best is the Dutch hoe, which has the blade set in approximately the same plane as the handle and is used by pushing with a chopping movement. Another excellent model, the "Swoe" - made by a firm who formerly made swords - looks like a golf putter with a long handle and is sharp on both sides of the blade so that it can be worked both forwards and backwards. Light and strong, it covers ground rapidly without damaging plants |
| Lawn-Mower (hand mower) | cortacésped manual | |
| Long-Arm | cortarramas de cuerda | invaluable for shaping trees without climbing a ladder. |
| Mattock | azada, azadón | |
| Pruning Knife | podadera. | |
| Rake | rastrillo | removes stones and leaves, and smooths seed-beds |
| Saw | sierra | it gave its name to the mountains with their saw-like outline |
| Secateurs | tijeras para podar | buy a strong pair if you plan to deal with virile growers like bougainvillaea |
| Shears | tijeras de jardinero | garden shears |
| Hedging shears | tijeras para setos | |
| Sieve | criba | |
| Spade | pala | get one suited to your height and strength, and keep it sharp |
| Trowel | paleta, desplantador | |
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