New to gardening-Help

[TrollTheRespawnJeremy]

Complete novice. I have a garden that needs ripped out and started again.

Can anyone point me to the best place to buy garden tools and a wee list of what I am most likely to need?

I like Wolf-Garten tools, as you only need two or three handles, and the tool heads clip on. VERY strong and versatile, and they do good shears and secateurs as well. Not as cheap as many brands, but worth it in the long run.

You'll also need fork and spade, 'digging' ones are larger and heavier, 'border' one smaller and more feminine! Stainless steel best, but may be dearer. And a little hand fork and trowel.

View in garden centres, but cheaper to buy on-line unless you have discount warehouse type place. (We have Trago Mills in Devon)

Implementations copper tools. online. Just do it. You will need a hand trowel and a hand fork from them. If you can afford one the spade is excellent too.

Awesome, I am happy to spend more if it means not having to replace within a couple of years, we had some homebase bits and pieces but its all fallen apart.

Garden spade, garden forki, small trowel, small fork, secateurs, plastic garden trug, sieve. I agree buy the best you can afford. Many tools come with 20 year guarantee. If you have old existing shrubs then also heavy duty loppers.

I've used wilko tools on my allotment [we never used to lock the shed] for 7 years - and it's a clay allotment - with no damages. If you don't put too much force on the tools, they don't break. Most breakages come from people trying to dig out huge amounts of soil rather and bending spades or forks trying to lever it out.

Before you go spending, what do you have to do? And what are you hoping to end up with?

A decent pair of loppers, a saw, secateurs, a adaza/mattock and a rake with one hand tool for planting out, plus a trug or wheelbarrow if you need to move stuff from one place to the other.

If it were me, I'd decide on one task [cutting back] first and get the tools to do that. Then once that is done, dig stuff out and get the tools for that. And then soil prep. And then planting.