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Every job has its tools, and landscaping is no different. Here are some of the general tools you’ll probably need to buy (or borrow):

 For planting perennials, annuals, and bulbs: Square-nosed shovel, long handle pointed shovel, garden spade, stiff-tined rake, hand trowel, hand pruner, and a hose and spray attachment. Optional equipment includes garden gloves, knee pads, plant labels, soaker hose or other irrigation system, bucket, and a bulb planter.

 For planting trees, shrubs, and vines: Square-nosed shovel or garden spade, hoe, stiff-tined rake, and a garden cart or wheelbarrow.

 For hardscape: Posthole digger, pick, digging bar, hammer, handsaw, square, nail set, chisel, plane, circular saw, power drill, power sander, power screwdriver, caulking gun, sawhorse, and stepladder. Also get a level (traditional carpenter’s level or one of those spiffy, efficient, but more expensive laser levels).

 For planting lawn seed or sod: Sharp knife, roller, broadcast spreader, and soil preparation equipment, including a rotary tiller and heavy rake.

 For maintenance: Lawn mower/riding mower, weed whacker, hedge clippers, hand pruner, loppers, pruning saw, hoe, lawn rake, and stiff-tined rake.

The advantage to having separate price tags attached to the various sections of your plan is that you then have an idea of how big a bite each new step will take out of your budget. Keep in mind, though, that the estimates you start with may change — go up, that is — by the time you actually begin the next phase.