Harvesting Tools

We reach for our Felcos every day for pruning, thinning and deadheading. This classic tool is our hands down favorite for top quality and reliability. You only need to buy them once and, with good care, they’ll last you a lifetime.

Felco's are wonderfully comfortable to hold, versatile and light enough for constant use, and you can absolutely rely on them for all your serious pruning and every day garden tasks.

Felco's hardened steel blades and an angled cutting head give you efficient and easy cutting power. Their forged aluminum handles and ergonomic handle grips provide a lightweight and comfortable non-slip grip.

Available in two sizes:

Model #2:
Felco’s most popular flagship pruners.
Overall length 8.4 in. Weight: 8.4 oz.

Model #6:
Especially comfortable for smaller hands. 
Overall length: 7.7 in. Weight: 7.3 oz.

Felco worked with master Japanese hand tool makers to develop these new lightweight all-purpose Kitchen Garden Snips. With their ergonomic design and high-quality chromium blades, these snips make everyday gardening tasks fast and easy.

Use them to harvest vegetables and greens of all sizes and types, cut flowers, remove spent blooms or do light pruning. They are equally handy in the kitchen for prepping fresh herbs and greens.

The snips have a flexible pin spring and soft, well-padded, shock absorbing handles that ensure maximum comfort and reduce muscle strain. Because they feel great in your hand, you can use them comfortably for hours (which we do!). The attached slip-over strap makes blades easy to secure. A great tool for every kitchen gardener. 

Overall length: 7.5 inches, Weight 4 oz.

Having tools with reliably sharp blades ensures the quick, clean cuts so essential for plant recovery and health and saves you both time and energy. Keep your Felco products in top shape with this new, easy to use sharpening tool from Felco. It is compact enough to fit in your pocket and enables easy, uncomplicated maintenance.

The sharpener keeps the edge on your pruners and kitchen garden snips with just a few strokes on the tungsten carbide sharpener followed by the finer second carbide stone. A handy 7mm and 8 mm hexagon socket allows you to quickly adjust and fine-tune the moving elements. And, like everything from Felco, this sharpener is made to last.

Our FAVORITE "go to" tool for a multitude of everyday gardening tasks; trials manager Lindsay carries and uses her Hori Hori every single day. Its polished, top quality stainless steel blade has 2 working edges: a serrated sawing edge and a cutting edge. The Hori Hori is perfect for all kinds of digging (In Japanese, Hori Hori means “dig dig”), sowing seed, planting seedlings, transplanting, every kind of weeding chore, and easy harvesting.

You’ll find the convenient inch marking on its blade invaluable for sowing seeds at just the right depth. The tool easily digs out deep tap roots and the blade’s serrated edge literally scrapes weeds right out of the soil. Better than any trowel, the Hori Hori is perfect to dig holes, cut sod and divide perennials. When harvesting, it cleanly pops out root vegetables like potatoes and beets or cuts squash and pumpkins from the vine.

For fast and effective garden weeding, we rely on and use this lightweight Japanese hand tool every day in our trial gardens. Its sharp, laminated carbon steel blade quickly and easily scrapes weeds right out of the ground, efficiently and cleanly cutting through their roots, even tenacious taproots. With its pointed edge, the scraper is perfect to carefully weed around other plants and is great for weeding containers. You’ll also find the blade good for digging.

We also use this multipurpose tool as a planting aid to make perfect shallow furrows down or across prepared garden beds and then directly sow seeds into the uniform, straight furrows.

Overall length: 13.25 in., Blade 5 in., Weight 7 oz. Blade can be easily resharpened.

Available both right and left handed.

For over 140 years, this small family business near Chesapeake Bay, MD has been making quality traditional split-oak baskets by hand for hard-working gardeners and market farmers. Part of our national craft heritage, their basket making process is documented in the Smithsonian Institute.

Baskets Are Available In 2 Sizes:

Square Basket: 13x13x4 in. drop-handled basket is perfect for herbs, flowers, and salads. Originally designed in the 19th century as a pie man’s basket!

Rectangular Basket: the perfect workhorse: larger 18x12x4 in. size is big enough so only one trip from garden to kitchen is necessary.

Please note: Baskets ship directly from the vendor. Allow 2 weeks for delivery. Sorry, we cannot ship to Alaska, Hawaii or Canada. Please provide a street address for delivery; we cannot ship baskets to a PO Box.

Our favorite gloves – hands-down!  We’ve tried about every type of glove out there and we still swear by Atlas nitrile gloves for everyday gardening duties.

Made of breathable nylon knit, the thin and grippy nitrile coating offers good protection without compromising dexterity. They’re perfect for fine motor tasks like planting out seedlings, weeding and sowing – anything where you need to be able to feel what you’re doing. Plus, nitrile is three times more puncture resistant than ordinary rubber – protecting your palms and fingertips from splinters and thorns.

Elasticized wrists keep dirt out without being too tight. And they’re washable, too, holding up well without shrinking or snagging.

We offer Small, Medium and Large gloves in four bright colors that make them easy to spot in the garden: Pink, Orange, Purple and Green.

Even if you’re not a “hat person,” you’ll love this comfortable, lightweight (4.3 oz.) hat that has a 3-inch brim you can fold up or down. The Vineyard Hat looks attractive and stylish both working in the garden or when you’re out and about. It provides reliable UVP 50+ sun protection on hot, sticky days and has a breathable cotton polyester ribbon and a removable, adjustable chinstrap with bead accents.

We find the Vineyard Hat a perfect companion to wear everywhere on hot sunny days. It folds flat, so can be be carried in your bag, backpack or tossed into in a suitcase and then pulled out whenever it’s needed. We offer the Vineyard Hat in two shades: pretty “Blue Verbena” and classic neutral “Bark.”

Dimensions are: 12.5” x 12” x 5.5”

This is the hat that we grab in the morning and never take off all day, all summer. Sometimes you hardly know this ultralight, breathable 2.2 oz hat is on!

With its strategically placed ventilation panels and wicking sweatband you don’t get too hot. The 4 inch crescent brim protects from sun, but tapers for great peripheral vision and the dark under brim absorbs glare. Made of 100% nylon, with an ultraviolet protection factor of 50+, the hat strongly resists stains and repels water.

The 5 inch neck sun cape protects your neck from sun; when not needed, it folds back into the hat and you won’t know it’s there. Easy sliding back strap adjusts for a perfect fit. Hidden pony tail opening for long hair. The slender but strong chinstrap for windy days folds away when not needed.

Our lightweight, breathable Sun Seeker hat is great-looking and protects both your face and neck with its 4.25 inch crescent-shaped brim and excellent UPF ultraviolet protection rating of 50+. The cute rear tie provides adjustable sizing, with a convenient opening for ponytails of all shapes and sizes.

The Sun Seeker packs flat for easy travel and is water and stain resistant with an interior wicking sweatband. Best of all, it’s comfortable and very light weight, just 2.3 ounces. We offer the Sun Seeker in a lovely purple larkspur shade with a patterned under-brim.

Besides making short work of our big tomato harvests, we use it for easy paper-thin slices of onions, lettuce, cucumbers, peppers, radishes and pickles and all kinds of fruits like apples, pears, mangoes, peaches oranges and lemons and for perfect thin hard-boiled egg slices.

A boxed set of 3 well-made precision tools you can rely on for fast and efficient kitchen work. American-made of surgical quality, high carbon stainless steel with a lifetime guarantee. Dishwasher safe!

The Paring Knife is the perfect size for everyday cutting tasks, and feels right and balanced in your hand. Hand sharpened, with a hollow ground blade for maximum edge retention, this “go to” knife will be the most used tool in your kitchen.

The Vegetable Peeler features a dual-edged blade whose swiveling design peels effortlessly both away or towards you. Makes quick work of peeling carrots or celery for snacks & lunch boxes, or making perfect chocolate curls! Serves right or left-handed cooks.

Small but mighty! This high-quality razor-sharp Japanese fruit saw was originally designed for pruning fruit trees to increase production and encourage plant growth, but we love it for everything! It’s versatile and effective for cutting through the small branches of fruiting and non-fruiting trees and shrubs like roses, blueberries and more. The wooden holster and leather loop keeps the carbon steel blade safe and its smaller profile makes it easy and convenient to carry around. A fun way to make your pruning work easier! 

Overall length: 10.5”
Saw length: 6”
Materials: Carbon steel blade, wood handle 

Every gardener needs a good hat. Our current favorite is the Ultimate Coverage Garden Hat with a UPF50+ rating and a generous 5-inch brim. Made of durable paper-cotton Ultrabraid, it holds its shape without being stiff.

Durable and stylish, it’s comfortable for hours in the garden or at the beach – or even at the music festival. Features an inner stretch band and adjustable chin cord to help stay put. Unisex style and sizing, it fits most heads and measures 23 1/4 inches in diameter. 

A garden essential! We never go into the garden without these all-purpose little scissors. They are the perfect size to cleanly and quickly trim dead leaves, cut flower stems, harvest greens, vegetables, or cut sprigs of fresh herbs and blossoms. We also keep a pair in the kitchen for everyday cooking tasks like snipping herbs and scallions and cutting thin bones. 

Sharp 1.6” blades are precise for cutting thin lettuces or spinach leaves and strong enough to cut a whole head of broccoli or cabbage at its base even if you do not have strong hands. Flexible soft-grip handle fits comfortably in either hand and is especially good for folks with arthritis or tendonitis.

Made of high carbon-steel and hard chrome-plated to resist rust/sap, stay sharp and last for years. Cheerful purple handle makes them easy to spot in then garden. Made in Japan.