{"id":390,"date":"2013-08-06T07:00:44","date_gmt":"2013-08-06T14:00:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/?p=390"},"modified":"2013-08-03T01:07:45","modified_gmt":"2013-08-03T08:07:45","slug":"tips-for-garden-tools","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/articles\/tips-for-garden-tools\/","title":{"rendered":"Tips for Garden Tools"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/hortoris\/5387207972\/\" title=\"Tool heads by brianpettinger, on Flickr\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm6.staticflickr.com\/5217\/5387207972_f90f6873e0.jpg\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" alt=\"Tool heads\"><\/a><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Get the key tools right to make your garden easier and more pleasurable.\n<li>A Spade that is light enough for your physique and a stainless steel blade will not get claggy with soil.<\/li>\n<li>Secateurs for snipping, pruning and cutting. Have one good pair for important work and another for the &#8216;grunt&#8217; jobs that are a bit tougher. I have a good bypass (scissor type) pair for pruing and an anvil pair for hard work<\/li>\n<li>Lawn mower electric or petrol depending on the lawn size. As the adverts said &#8216;its much less bovver with a hovver&#8217;.<\/li>\n<li>Trowel made from forged steel  will stand hard work and cut into soil easily<\/li>\n<li>Wheel barrow with a pneumatic tyre carries heavy loads and I prefer it too the ball type wheel<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Gardeners Tips<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Buy the best quality you can afford if you are going to make a lot of use of the tool. It is surprising how many tools don&#8217;t get used all that often so plan out what you need. Over 80%  of the work will be done by the items in the list above.<\/li>\n<li>Hire the tools and equipment you only need occassionally. Be sure you are trained on the use and risks of hired tools.<\/li>\n<li>Pay a tree surgeon to cut hedges, prune and trim trees. They will have the right equipment andwill side away the waste.<\/li>\n<li>Maintain the tools you have:\n<li>Put linseed oil on wooden handles to keep them smooth and in good condition<\/li>\n<li>Store metal wheel barrows upside down to help slow rusting from the rain<\/li>\n<li>Keep blades clean and honed I use a wet stone to remove dried sap and keep sharp<\/li>\n<li>Power tools need a cutout and an extension lead if your garden is large<\/li>\n<li>Spray tools with WD40 or similar to keep rust free and moving<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Get the key tools right to make your garden easier and more pleasurable. A Spade that is light enough for your physique and a stainless steel blade will not get claggy with soil. Secateurs for snipping, pruning and cutting. Have one good pair for important work and another for the &#8216;grunt&#8217; jobs that are a bit tougher. I have a good bypass (scissor type) pair for pruing and an anvil pair for hard work Lawn mower electric or petrol depending&#8230;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"><a class=\"btn btn-default\" href=\"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/articles\/tips-for-garden-tools\/\"> Read More<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">  Read More<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-390","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/390","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=390"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/390\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=390"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=390"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=390"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}