Landscape Supplies Checklist

When the green starts to return to your lawn and the rest of your plants start to wake up, it may be time to make sure you have the right landscape supplies to tackle your garden. Landscaping with the right garden supplies will save you time and effort, helping you create the best look for your yard, flower bed or vegetable garden. Here is a short checklist of landscaping supplies that serious gardeners need.

Basic Landscape Supplies:

1. Fertilizers: Healthy landscaping begins with properly feeding your plants. Start by studying up on the plants in your garden and learning what nutrients they require, such as nitrogen, phosphates and other compounds. When assembling landscape supplies, it's always a good idea to include a few bags of all-purpose fertilizer.

2. Gloves: If you've ever spent the day in your garden without a decent pair of gloves, you've had enough scratches, cuts and blisters to know why gardening gloves are on our checklist of landscape supplies.

3. Basic gardening tools: Your landscape supplies may be lacking without hand trowels, rakes, shovels and other basic yard care tools. A pair of pruning shears, heavy branch cutters and similar landscape supplies can make a big difference in your ability to shape your garden to your liking.

4. Composting materials: If you haven't yet discovered the benefits that composting can bring to your garden, this may be the year to get started. Landscape supplies, such as a high-capacity composter and a rain catcher, can help you take greener gardening to the next level. These simple landscape supplies make for a more sustainable garden.

5. Weed control: Installing the proper ground cover when you plant can help suppress weeds and give your landscaping plants a foothold. Include ground-cover fabric in your garden supplies to help control weeds and save money on weeding fertilizers.

6. Watering supplies: Water and plant food are your most basic landscape supplies. You'll want to make sure that you have the proper sprinklers, soaker hoses and watering blankets to help keep your plants hydrated without wasting water. Your landscape supplies may also include extension hoses for reaching every corner of your garden.

7. Mowers and trimmers: A whole arsenal of garden tools is available to help you tame the yard. The larger your garden, the more powerful the tools need to be. Of all your landscape supplies, lawn trimmers, mowers and leaf blowers may be the ones you will use the most.