tools that do the tedious part for me (on sale this week)

This week I'm cutting down the last of the tomatoes and prepping a few areas for planting bulbs. It's the busiest stretch of my gardening season, and the stretch where I'm most grateful for a few tools that take the slow, sore-hands, all-afternoon jobs and make them shorter. Amazon's Prime Big Deal Days runs today and tomorrow (October 6 and 7), and several of my favorite less-fuss tools are part of it. I know, a sale email isn't why you open these—so I kept the list to things I use myself...