Collection: The Celtic Farm

The Celtic Farm: Leather, Waxed Canvas, and Steel Garden Gear

The Ultimate Leather Garden Tool Belt and Holder keeps your tools on your hip and your hands free. Genuine leather pouch on an adjustable nylon belt that closes comfortably up to a 44-inch waist. Three pockets, and the inner one carries extra rivets so a sharp blade cannot work its way through the seam. Metal hardware throughout, an outer pocket sized for pens and markers, and a master gardener's fingerprints on decisions that small. Leather this thick darkens and softens as you handle it, which is the logic running through the whole Celtic Farm line: materials that keep a record of the work.

Aprons for long days on your feet

Both aprons hang from crossback straps, so a loaded pocket pulls across your shoulders and leaves your neck alone. The Waxed Canvas Gardening Apron is the heavier of the two, in waxed cotton canvas with leather accents, double-stitched pockets sized for pruners, clippers, and garden scissors, a dedicated phone pocket, adjustable straps, and a detachable ring for clipping a tool or hanging a towel. The French Style Crossback Apron is its opposite number in cotton linen: light, breathable, two roomy front pockets, relaxed enough to slip on over anything, and machine washable. Wax sheds damp soil, linen goes in the laundry. Pick by whichever problem you have more often.

Bags meant to be loaded

The Waxed Canvas Garden Tool Bag and Organizer measures 18 by 14 by 14 inches and puts eight exterior pockets around one large central compartment, with sturdy handles and a closure flap over the top. The canvas is water-resistant, so dew and spilled potting mix wipe off. Tools are sold separately. The Gardener's Premium Leather Tool Bag takes a different route to the same job: thick leather, brass rivets, seams both stitched and riveted, a flat bottom that keeps the bag upright while you fill it, and 7-inch dual handles for a heavy load. It works as well walking out of a farmers market as into a garden bed.

Small tools, sharpening, and knee protection

The Professional Dual-Blade Gardener's Knife is the one to carry daily, with a rosewood handle pinned in brass, a straight blade for grafting and propagation, and a curved blade for pruning and dividing tubers. The folding 4-in-1 Multi-Tool packs a pruner, saw, grafting knife, and weeder into an aluminum body and ships with a protective case, and the Premium Stainless Steel Garden Scissors use Japanese-style curved handles for close work on herbs and cut flowers.

All of them dull eventually, which is what the Pocket-Sized Diamond and Carbon Steel Sharpener is for. It is a dual-sided honing paddle, medium on one face and fine on the other, small enough to live in an apron pocket and quick enough to use between beds. It handles pruners and snips, scissors, hori hori knives, shovels, hoes, and mower blades.

Down at ground level, the Waxed Canvas Garden Knee Saver puts close to two inches of padding between your knees and packed soil. Sixteen-ounce waxed canvas in hunter green, waterproof, 21.25 by 8.75 inches, a deep front pocket for seed packets and hand tools, and real leather handles backed with cotton webbing so it travels bed to bed with you.

None of this needs much upkeep, but it does need the right kind. Wipe waxed canvas with a damp cloth, let it air dry, keep it out of the washing machine, and re-wax it now and then to hold the water resistance. Leather wants a dry or barely damp cloth, an occasional conditioning, and a cool dry shelf. The linen apron is the exception: cold wash, hang or tumble dry low.