Editing Gardening (section)

== Tools ==
Regardless of historical time period, location, scale, or type of garden, all gardening requires some basic [[tool]]s.<ref>{{Cite web |last=College |first=Dartmouth |date=2023-01-22 |title=10,000 Years Ago – Ancient Stone Tools Provide the Earliest Evidence of Rice Harvesting |url=https://scitechdaily.com/10000-years-ago-ancient-stone-tools-provide-the-earliest-evidence-of-rice-harvesting/ |access-date=2024-03-15 |website=SciTechDaily |language=en-US}}</ref> For the majority of human history, people have managed with significantly fewer resources compared to modern times. Agriculture was built on the use of hands, stones, sticks, human ingenuity, and fire.<ref>{{Cite journal |last=Fussell |first=G. E. |date=1966 |title=Ploughs and Ploughing before 1800 |url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/3740696 |journal=Agricultural History |volume=40 |issue=3 |pages=177–186 |issn=0002-1482 |jstor=3740696}}</ref> The essential tools used in pre-[[Bronze Age]] gardening were non-metal (primarily stone, bone, wood, or copper) knives, axes, adzes, [[foot plough]]s, sickles, hoes, baskets, pottery, digging sticks, animal-driven ploughs, animals, and fire for clearing land.<ref name="Snir-2015"/><ref>{{Cite journal |last=Zhao |first=Zhijun |date=October 2011 |title=New Archaeobotanic Data for the Study of the Origins of Agriculture in China |url=https://www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/659308 |journal=Current Anthropology |language=en |volume=52 |issue=S4 |pages=S295–S306 |doi=10.1086/659308 |issn=0011-3204}}</ref><ref>{{Cite journal |last1=López-Bultó |first1=Oriol |last2=Piqué |first2=Raquel |last3=Antolín |first3=Ferran |last4=Antón Barceló |first4=Joan |last5=Palomo |first5=Antoni |last6=Clemente |first6=Ignacio |date=2020 |title=Digging sticks and agriculture development at the ancient Neolithic site of la Draga (Banyoles, Spain) |url=https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S2352409X19305516 |journal=Journal of Archaeological Science |volume=30 |issue=102193 |doi=10.1016/j.jasrep.2020.102193 |bibcode=2020JArSR..30j2193L |via=Elsevier Science Direct}}</ref><ref>{{Cite journal |last1=Lander |first1=Faye |last2=Russell |first2=Thembi |date=2018-06-14 |title=The archaeological evidence for the appearance of pastoralism and farming in southern Africa |journal=PLOS ONE |volume=13 |issue=6 |pages=e0198941 |doi=10.1371/journal.pone.0198941 |doi-access=free |issn=1932-6203 |pmc=6002040 |pmid=29902271|bibcode=2018PLoSO..1398941L }}</ref> Up until the [[Green Revolution|green revolution]], these simple tools, although continually improved upon, would continue to be the backbone of agricultural societies.<ref>{{Cite journal |last=F. Frolik |first=Elvin |date=1977 |title=The History of Agriculture in the United States Beginning With the Seventeenth Century |url=https://digitalcommons.unl.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1456&context=tnas |journal=Nebraska Academy of Sciences and Affiliated Societies |via=DigitalCommons@University of Nebraska - Lincoln}}</ref>
[[File:7264 Canterbury Agricultural College farm.jpg|thumb|Harrowing a field on the Canterbury Agricultural College farm in 1948.]]
The [[Industrial Revolution|industrial revolution]] created a large increase in the availability and impact of agricultural tools. These tools include [[tractor]]s with modern implements, manure spreaders, [[cultivator]]s, mowers, earth-moving machines, hedge trimmers, strimmer's, wood-chippers, [[two-wheel tractor]]s, complex irrigation systems, [[plastic mulch]], plastic shelters, seeding trays, indoor [[grow light]]s, packaging, chemical [[fertilizer]]s, [[pesticide]]s, [[Genetically modified plant|genetically modified seeds]], and many more.