You don't need much, and you certainly don't need it all at once. But a few good tools make the heavy days lighter and the fiddly jobs quicker. These are mine — honestly rated, all of them things I use, not things I was sent.
At a glance
Red Gorilla flexible tub
Weeding, woodchip, soil, harvest — endlessly useful
Spear & Jackson dibber
Neat, even holes for seedlings and seeds
Seeding Square
Spacing seeds for square-foot growing
Gardena watering lance
Reaching the back of the bed, under the leaves
Burgon & Ball wooden trug
Gathering the harvest (the nicest job)
Haemmerlin puncture-free wheelbarrow
Hauling soil, woodchip and the harvest
If you're just starting, work down the list from the top — the cheap, everyday few first, the wheelbarrow and broadfork only once you know you'll use them. I've written about most of these in full, and the order I'd buy them, in the posts below.
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