Garden Tool Care
If you speak to any avid gardener about his or her favorite tool, the gardener can be passionate in describing this hoe, those pruners or that little garden cart that has become a great buddy. And it’s no wonder; using good tools makes gardening work much easier. A few years ago, I bought some gardening tools at a discount retail store (I won’t mention the name) for what I thought was an inexpensive price at the time. I thought I had made a great buy until I went to use them. The hand pruners would not cut anything. They were too dull for small stems and too weak for woody thicker branches. The hand trowels bent immediately after digging into soil that had been well amended. They turned out to be no bargain at all once I had to throw them all away. On the other hand I bought similar tools about 20 years ago (ones I considered very expensive at that time) and I still use them today! Lesson learned is always buy the best tools you can afford. Look for blades constructed with steel...