Maintain your garden tools regularly to ensure they remain effective throughout the gardening season. Shovels, axes, lawn ...

Unlike garden shears, which are similar to scissors in design, loppers are designed for use with both hands, which allows the user to exert greater force for cutting large branches. “Loppers are ...

Get to know the blade. Put on gloves and safety goggles before you start, then secure one handle of your shears in a table vise. With a coarse, bastard-cut mill file in hand, “inspect the blade for ...

The next step is attending to the blades on hand tools like pruners and loppers. I like to keep mine clean throughout the growing season by wiping them down with cleaning wipes and occasionally hosing ...