With its short rigid tines a bow rake is excellent for leveling a bed after digging it up with a shovel or garden fork. Bow rakes will also remove stones and debris from the soil.
Just as its name implies a leaf rate is used for removing leaves, grass clippings, pine needles, and other debris from your lawn and garden bed.
A thatching rake has crescent shaped blades that you push and pull through the lawn to remove dead grass known as thatch.
If you take only one hand tool to the garden it should be a hoe and cultivator combination, use the fork as a cultivator then turn it over in use it as a hoe. Its strength and balance make it a popular garden tool.
A weeder or as it is sometimes called a dandelion weeder is used to remove individual weeds in garden beds or in the lawn. Basically a weeder that has a wooden or plastic handle attached to a metal shaft about a foot long with a sharp pointed or forked tip. To use it you plunge the tip into the soil to disturb the ground around the weed so it can be removed.
A small hand-held tool with three prongs is called a cultivator. This device can be used to mix fertilizer into the soil or to weed in small confined areas such as a container or raised garden bed. There are also long handle cultivators for working the soil while standing.
The thin high tensile stainless steel blades of the weed eraser slices effortlessly through packed soil, cutting weed roots off underground. Great for any garden bed, it is especially handy for weeding tight spaces like planters,window boxes, raised beds and between rows. the large opening leaves soil in place. It's efficient design will allow you to cultivate around existing plants and not damage their roots.