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You can usually find cheap tools easily at discount stores, home improvement centers, garden centers, and some grocery stores.
I don't know about the cheapest online but I would recommend that instead you buy a few quality tools that will last you a long time. They will also be more pleasant to use.
Figure out what you really need and just buy those. Don't buy something just because it seems like everyone else has one or it looks like it might be helpful. If you can borrow tools from someone else just long enough to see if you would really benefit then that could be helpful to you.
I do not own a hoe and have no need for one. I also do not own a tiller for the same reason.
My main tools are listed below. Depending on your yard you may not need all of these. I have 1/3 of an acre with many trees, shrubs, flowers, and fruit trees, plus some lawn.
For my garden: A trowel (Corona brand), and garden/kitchen shears (Fiskars). The trowel is for planting vegetable plants. The shears are for harvesting lettuce, spinach, and herbs.
To see why those are the only tools I need see the answer I gave to an organic gardening question:
http://www.gardeningqna.com/how-to-start-an-organic-garden
For the rest of my yard I use a cordless lawn mower (Black & Decker), cordless trimmer/weedwacker (Black & Decker), shears, pruners, hand hedge trimmer, loppers, (all Fiskars), electric blower/vac (Toro) (I have lots of trees), electric pole pruner (Remington), leaf rake, stirrup hoe (for scraping weed when small), spade (old, quality tool that has been in the family for years), and trowel.
I also have a pressure sprayer to spray my fruit trees in the spring and a hose end sprayer for applying fish emulsion/kelp to my yard and lawn during the growing season. And of course, quality hoses.
I also would recommend a pair of protective leather gloves for pruning roses and other prickly things.
For general gardening I use Foxgloves or similar type gloves because they fit snuggly and almost feel as if they aren't there.
http://www.foxglovesinc.com/shop_item.php?iid=2
http://www.foxglovesinc.com/shop_item.php?iid=1
I don't know about the cheapest online but I would recommend that instead you buy a few quality tools that will last you a long time. They will also be more pleasant to use.
Figure out what you really need and just buy those. Don't buy something just because it seems like everyone else has one or it looks like it might be helpful. If you can borrow tools from someone else just long enough to see if you would really benefit then that could be helpful to you.
I do not own a hoe and have no need for one. I also do not own a tiller for the same reason.
My main tools are listed below. Depending on your yard you may not need all of these. I have 1/3 of an acre with many trees, shrubs, flowers, and fruit trees, plus some lawn.
For my garden: A trowel (Corona brand), and garden/kitchen shears (Fiskars). The trowel is for planting vegetable plants. The shears are for harvesting lettuce, spinach, and herbs.
To see why those are the only tools I need see the answer I gave to an organic gardening question:
http://www.gardeningqna.com/how-to-start-an-organic-garden
For the rest of my yard I use a cordless lawn mower (Black & Decker), cordless trimmer/weedwacker (Black & Decker), shears, pruners, hand hedge trimmer, loppers, (all Fiskars), electric blower/vac (Toro) (I have lots of trees), electric pole pruner (Remington), leaf rake, stirrup hoe (for scraping weed when small), spade (old, quality tool that has been in the family for years), and trowel.
I also have a pressure sprayer to spray my fruit trees in the spring and a hose end sprayer for applying fish emulsion/kelp to my yard and lawn during the growing season. And of course, quality hoses.
I also would recommend a pair of protective leather gloves for pruning roses and other prickly things.
For general gardening I use Foxgloves or similar type gloves because they fit snuggly and almost feel as if they aren't there.
http://www.foxglovesinc.com/shop_item.php?iid=2
http://www.foxglovesinc.com/shop_item.php?iid=1
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