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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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, ...

Once your gardening tools are clean and neatly put away, it's time to get them out again - for sharpening. Sharpening is a pleasant wintertime activity, one you can do mostly indoors. And you'll need ...

Hedges never really went out of style in my neighborhood, where some are so perfectly shaped they look as if they'd been trimmed with manicure scissors. Poke a finger between the leaves of some of ...