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 ...

Frequent, minimal sharpening keeps tools working their best. • Hoes, shovels: Use a 12-inch mill bastard file, preferably with a handle on it, and make a smooth, sharp edge by filing in forward ...

How many times have you gone to use the wire stripper and it wouldn’t strip? Because a wire stripper must bite into the insulation before it is pulled away, the edge on it must be clean and sharp.