>>1669218Mattocks and picks are specialized tools for stone and stony ground. Like those soils you'd find where there's not much top soil left or in mountainous areas. If the ground is that bad, it is better to use raised beds, made from all the stone all over the place. You need to use eye protection when using them with stone. They are great for trenching in heavy compacted clay soils, like deep soils for a foundation hole/trench.
>gardening toolsThis can depend on your gardening methods. For instance, some raised beds are nice when sitting on the wall and using short handle tools. Open ground or low wall raised beds will need long handle tools. You may find you'd want something motorized like a tiller or you may simply want to cultivate the very surface with a Garden Weasel. A Garden Weasel is a brand name, but there are several knock offs. That type of cultivator is good for soil with high tilth, but not good for untilled or heavy clay soils with low tilth.
Here's a few that I use. A wheel barrow is a must and I have one with a solid tire, which takes a lot of headache out of airing up a tire all the time.
Left to right, top to bottom:
Leaf Rake
Weed Puller (for pasture)
Garden Weasel
4-tine Rake (for general use and high tilth soil weeding)
Spade head shovel (for all digging jobs; make sure to sharpening)
Manure/Gravel Fork (for moving semi-loose or matted materials like compost, gravel, or manure)
Hay Fork
Garden Rake (mostly for smoothing soil or filtering debris from top soil)
Garden Hoe (general weed removal, soil moving in a bed, and scraping)
Short D-handle tools are good for tight spaces like in a chicken coop,
Garden Fork (moving compost, manure, or hay; also good for lifting potatoes for harvest.)
Square Shovel (good for edging and scrapping flat surfaces; like in a stall or coop)
Manure Fork (same as above manure fork but for small areas)
