Have a new garden or just new to gardening? Follow these tips to get your landscape in control: 1. Clean Up - If you don't have tools, buy at the very least, a rake, a shovel and a pair of pruning shears. Walk around your yard. Rake the grass, trim dead branches and dig up diseased plants. Instead of throwing all this perfectly-good garden waste in the garbage, toss it in a heap in the corner of your garden to make the start of something essential to every gardener: a compost