Maintain your garden tools regularly to ensure they remain effective throughout the gardening season. Shovels, axes, lawn mower blades and pruning tools all require cleaning and sharpening to perform ...

If they’re properly sharpened, power hedge trimmers are a great time saver over manual trimmers for maintaining neat hedges and other landscaping. If your power trimmers are continually getting jammed ...

Your hedge trimmer is an important tool if your lawn includes bushes, shrubs, and other landscaping features to tame and maintain. Here’s the thing, though: You can only get the kind of tight, ...

There are numerous ways to sharpen tools: an angle grinder, bench grinder, or grindstone just to name a few. But often all you need is a file. It's inexpensive and gives you greater control than a ...

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 ...

13:28, Tue, Apr 28, 2020 Updated: 13:28, Tue, Apr 28, 2020 As Britons stay home under the Government's lockdown guidelines, many are putting their time and energy into tidying up their garden. With a ...

Dear Carol: I have a collection of gardening tools that require sharpening, manual hedge shears, clippers, small shears, etc. Any suggestions on sharpening garden tools? -- K.B., Onondaga Hill. Dear K ...