There are a number of one-horse cultivators that are especially adapted
for work in the garden. These may be provided with several sizes of
teeth and shovels, and are easily transformed for various kinds of
work. In working the crops while they are small the harrow or smaller
teeth may be used, and later when the plants become larger the size of
the shovels may be increased. Many gardeners, however, prefer to use
the harrow teeth at all times. When it is desirable to ridge up the
soil around a crop, the wings, or hillers, may be put on either side of
the cultivator. A one-horse turning plow is useful for running off rows
or throwing up ridges. Aside from the horse tools in general use on the
farm, there are only one or two cultivators that will be required for
the garden, and these are not expensive.
The outfit of hand tools for the garden should include a spade, a
spading fork, a cut-steel rake, a 10-foot measuring pole, a line for
laying off rows, a standard hoe, a narrow hoe, dibbles, a trowel, an
assortment of hand weeders, a watering can, a wheelbarrow, and if the
work is to be done largely by hand the outfit should also include some
form of wheel hoe, of which there are a number on the market.