Small Garden Tools
Maintaining Your Small Garden Tools
Whether you have a small herb, vegetable or flower garden, choosing the right garden tools needed for the job is important. Our small garden tools consist of pro-grade mattocks, rakes and brooms, shovels and spades, and many other items for the gardener or landscaping contractor. These tools will be a welcome addition to any gardener’s tool shed. It is equally as important to maintain your lawn and garden tools so they will last for years to come.
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Suggestions for Maintaining Your Small Gardening Tools:
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Always remove all of the soil from your digging tools after each use.
Usually hosing is all it takes, but use a screwdriver to remove caked or dried mud. - Never put your tools away wet. Allow them to dry completely before storing to prevent rusting and handle rot.
- Rub linseed oil into your wooden handles once each garden season to help preserve them.
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After each use, wipe the metal parts of pruners, shears, and loppers with an oily rag.
Alternately, you can wipe your tools dry with a clean rag, and then spray lightly with a penetrating oil such as WD40 ®.
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Thoroughly clean any tools that have been used for chemical applications.
Fertilizers and other chemicals will rapidly corrode any metal parts. -
Sharpen your cutting tools as well as the blades of shovels and spades during the gardening season.
A hone or whetstone should be used for sharpening cutting tools.
A file should be used to remove nicks and smooth the edge of your shovels and trowels.
Gardening is fun; and the physical and psychological benefits of a home garden are many. Using the best small garden tools for the chore will make your gardening tasks all the more easier.