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Useful equipment for school gardening

Information sheet

Here is a guide to the basic equipment that it is useful to have in school gardens

Gardening gloves for adults and children in various sizes
Colourful plastic trugs or buckets
Watering cans with watering rose
Compost bins
Pots and trays
Cups or small containers for seed distribution
String and scissors
Old or cheap shower curtains or tarpaulins to cover areas or keep them clean
Wheelbarrow
Hand trowels and forks
Child size rakes, spades and forks. Use border or adult size tools if pupils are older
Old dust pan bushes or dish washing brushes to clean tools etc

Before you buy or have gathered all your tools and equipment it is worth considering where and how you are going to store them
Do you have room or money for a shed or is there an existing storeroom that could be used? This should be clean and dry to stop the tools rusting
Teach your pupils to always put their tools away clean- so they last longer and they are nice for the next pupils to use
Discard any tools that are broken or unsafe.
It may be useful to gather old bins or buckets to store the tools upright. Consider making racks or fix hooks to the shed walls to hang the tools. Mark the different hooks for each type of tool
Consider tool safety at all times and think about who will have access to the tools & storage area