Good Housekeeping-Approved Gardening Tools You Can Get Via Shipt
Affordable outdoor must-haves to make your summer-weather work a breeze.
Summer gardening isn’t just about sitting back and admiring the results of all your spring planting—it’s when the real work begins. By this time of year, your garden is in full swing, which means staying on top of tasks like deadheading flowers to keep them blooming, harvesting herbs and veggies at their peak, and staking or trimming fast-growing plants. There’s also weeding and regular watering (especially necessary during heat waves) to keep everything healthy and alive.
To make all of that happen without breaking the bank, you need the right equipment. That means plenty of garden ties on hand to keep plants growing upward, gloves without holes and that actually fit your hands, a hose long enough to comfortably reach the back corners of your yard, and tools sturdy enough to last more than one growing season.
Thankfully, you don’t need to spend an afternoon running errands to stock up on all these things. With a Target Circle 360 membership, you have access to Shipt, the same-day delivery service that can bring you all the gardening tools and outdoor essentials you need—with no price markup (excluding select alcohol retailers and items; terms apply)—directly to your door. And not only will you have access to Target, but you can also shop from other local stores that Shipt works with, such as Lowe’s. Thanks to Shipt, you can spend more daylight hours with your plants and fewer of them standing in line. With that in mind, here are some gardening favorites that are Good Housekeeping-approved.
The medium-duty version of a Good Housekeeping favorite, this vinyl hose is both crush-resistant and so easy to manipulate that it has the Arthritis Foundation’s “Ease of Use” stamp of approval, too.
Awarded the Good Housekeeping Seal of Approval, this fast-acting weed killer works by dehydrating whatever nuisances — dandelion, crabgrass, clover — are populating your yard or mulch beds, and kills them within hours. Best of all, the solution is easy to use and safe around people, pets and even bees when applied as directed.
Gardening for long periods of time can be tough on the body. Working with tools like this one, which has a special ergonomically designed handle that’s padded for extra comfort and control, is a must to help prevent wrist strain as you dig and loosen soil.
You need a lightweight but durable pruner if you’re going to be cutting back lots of stems or branches. (And let’s face it — you are.) This one has an easy-open lock mechanism, is easy to grip and resists rusting — which is why it’s our best overall pick.