Tools we use

Planning

From understanding your yard’s specific light, soil, and moisture conditions to mapping out your garden and plant plans, these are the garden planning tools you’ll need to get started transforming your yard.

Measuring wheel 200ft for garden layout and design planning

Measuring Wheel
(200 Feet)

3-in-1 Sunlight / Soil Moisture / pH Meter

White marking flags for garden design and yard planning

White Marking Flags
(100 Pack)

17x11 graph paper, great for garden design and yard planning

Graph Paper
(17"x11", 22 Sheet)

Tracing paper roll, great for ecological landscaping garden design course

Tracing Paper
(12 Inches x 50 Yards)

Mr Pen landscape stencils for garden design and yard planning

Landscape Design Stencil Set

Compass for drawing garden layout

Compass with Extra Lead

Mechanical pencil set with various sizers and multiple erasers

Mechanical Pencil Set (0.3, 0.5, 0.7 & 0.9mm) with Erasers

Equipment

This eco-friendly lawn and garden equipment is electric and powerful. Whether you use them yourself or give them to a yard maintenance crew, the environment will thank you for reducing carbon emissions from gasoline-powered garden tools.

EGO electric cordless lawn mower for ecological landscaping

EGO 56-Volt Cordless Lawn Mower (with 5.0Ah Battery and Quick Charger)

EGO electric weed whacker garden tool for ecological yard care

EGO 56-Volt Cordless Weed Whacker and Edger (with 2.5Ah Battery and Charger)

EGO electric cordless leaf blower for yard care and lawn maintenance

EGO 56-Volt Cordless Leaf Blower (with 5.0Ah Battery and Quick Charger)

Ryobi electric grass trimmer, weeder, trimmer tool for yard care

RYOBI 18-Volt Cordless Grass Shearer and Shrub Trimmer (with 1.3Ah Battery/Charger)

Sun Joe cordless electric chain saw for yard maintenance and tree pruning

SUN JOE 48-Volt Cordless Chain Saw 16-inch Kit, (with 2 x 2.0Ah Batteries and Quick Charger)

Tools

Plant, prune, weed. Our favorite garden tools for modern yard care.

Radius root slayer shovel garden tool for planting shrubs and trees

Root Slayer Shovel

Best garden tool or planting plugs and small plants -- hori knife set with gloves

Hori Garden Knife Set
with Gloves

Weeding tool -- cut don't pull! Stainless steel snippers

Weeding Snippers

Small manual hand pruner garden tool

Small Pruners

Large hand pruners garden tool for weeding and pruning

Large Pruners

CobraHead garden tool for digging and edging and weeding

CobraHead Weeder and Digger

Personal protection

Keep yourself safe and healthy from ticks, poison ivy, and sun exposure while you’re working to transform your yard into a biodiverse wildlife habitat.

Chic, packable gardening hat

Scala Packable Raffia Hat

Get rid of poison ivy with this Tec Labs Tecnu cleanser

Tecnu Poison Ivy Cleanser

Effective natural DEET-free tick and bug repellent

Nantucket Spider Natural
Tick and Bug Repellent Set

Wildlife appreciation

You’ll quickly see more birds, bees, and butterflies cavorting in your transformed yard. We recommend these tools for getting a closer look at your newest neighbors.

Binoculars great for watching birds, bees, and butterflies

Pentax 6.5x21 Binoculars

Amazing trail cam for seeing wildlife in your yard

Solar-Powered WiFi Trail Cam

Pest deterrents

Even as we create biodiverse habitats, there is some wildlife we prefer to keep at a distance. These are our go-to tools for keeping deer, ticks, and wasps at bay.

Garden tools: deer repeller

Solar-Powered Motion-Activated Animal Repeller

Garden tools: keep wasps out of your home

Wasp Nest Decoys
(6 Pack)

Garden tools: these tubes keep ticks out of yards

Tick Control Tubes
(22 Pack)

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