Now that the snow is finally melting away, it is a great time to start cleaning up your yard and garden for spring.  After the snow has melted, your can begin to start picking up dead leaves, branches and more off of the ground and clean out your flower beds.  It is a good idea to remove all of the dead plantings and get rid of any weeds that are sure to grow back bigger and stronger than last year.  This simple clean-up now should help prepare your yard for plantings in the later part of spring and early summer and helps to reduce the amount of weeds in your yard during the summer.  Here are some great gardening tools that are sure to make your life easier during the spring: 

• Every gardener needs a forged bow rake to help break up dirt and help to remove loose grass and dead grass.  This type of rake is also ideal for removing weeds in your garden and flower beds.  You will find many uses for this rake in your garden.
• To help make clean-up even easier for you, a garden cart is ideal for toting around dead branches, weeds, garden debris and even hauling around yard waste bags.  The EZ Hauler Dumping Garden Cart is a very durable cart that is perfect for hauling a variety of things around and makes cleaning much easier.
• Don’t forget to stock up on twine to bundle up dead branches and more. 
• It is also a good time to clean out and organize your shed or garage and put away any seasonal ornaments that are on your lawn. 
• Another gardening tool that will make removing small dead branches from the trees or larger plantings easier is the Fiskars PowerLever Hedge Shears.  These shears are designed to give you more leverage when cutting to make cutting much easier.