Monday, 02 January 2012 05:43
The garden cart has played a fundamental role in the establishment and maintenance of countless gardens. A garden cart is not a wheelbarrow. Instead of having a single, squat tire, a garden cart has a large body boxed in by wood, sometimes aluminum, flanked by two heavy-duty-bicycle –size tires.
The tires’ size and the fact that they are centered along the wooden bed make a garden cart useful in a different way than a wheelbarrow. This card lets you move a much heavier load, up to 400 pounds if a high quality cart. That’s because the large wheels move smoothly over bumps, and carry most of the weight.
With a garden cart, you mostly just pull the weight, in contrast to a wheelbarrow, which requires you to lift and push. The large high-walled bed of the cart makes it possible to haul around large amounts of bulky materials. Quantities of organic materials are what make great soils, and great soils are the foundation of great gardens, whether vegetable gardens, traditional flower gardens or stately or fruitful trees. Hauling compost, leaves, or stones for borders is made much easier with the use of a cart.
A garden cart can last many years. The wooden bed can be replaced with new plywood if it falls into disrepair. Save your back…look into getting a garden cart.
