Anyone who has a garden already knows that a garden needs to "be put to bed for the winter" and "reawakened in the spring." These seasonal garden plans help maintain the overall health and beauty of your garden during the rest of the year. The only problem with this type of garden maintenance is that you need some heavy construction equipment during early spring and late fall, and then you do not need these pieces of equipment the rest of the year. To buy them just to have them is often too expensive, but garden rentals can help in all of the following ways.

Rototillers

Renting a rototiller in the early spring or late fall helps you churn the soil and let it breath before planting. It acts as both an aerator for the soil in which you will plant and the soil that already has plants. Additionally, any plants that become dead stalks during the growing seasons can be churned under during these two times of the year, acting as fertilizer for the plants that are already there and for any other plants you intend to plant. To buy a rototiller you may spend a couple hundred dollars, but to rent one is just a few dollars for a short block of time or a little more money for an entire day if you have a lot of garden that needs tilling.

Lawn Tractors

Sure, it would be nice to have a lawn tractor, especially one that is compatible with lots of extra add-on features. The reality of it, however, is that you may pay as much for a lawn tractor as you would for a used car that is about ten years old, and you cannot drive it anywhere else but on your lawn. Even more difficult is the problem of where to keep such a large piece of equipment. Instead, for less than it costs to rent a moving truck for a day, you can rent a lawn tractor, test it out, use it for whatever you need to use it for, and then return it. If you want extra parts, like a front loader, a trail-behind aerator or a wide-cutting lawnmower accessory, that usually costs extra per the hour block or per day.

Personal Dump Bed Vehicle

The last piece of garden equipment, a dump bed, gives you all of the benefits of a dump truck and hauler but in a size more suitable for your yard. If you have a lot of rock, dirt or mulch that needs to be moved and repositioned during your semi-annual garden maintenance, then it makes far better money sense to rent one of these than to buy one. They are as large as a small jeep, and most people do not have that kind of storage space for such a seasonal vehicle on their property. A new one will also cost you as much as a new car, while a used one is on par for the price of a used car with low mileage. The nice thing about these one-time rentals is that you may just be able to drive it home because it resembles a low-bed pickup or open jeep (which means you may not have to trailer it back to your house).