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Monthly Mornings: How to Choose and Maintain Your Garden Tools

Blunt Secateurs? Learn to clean and sharpen your own pair. Well chosen tools, like a good pair of secateurs, should last a lifetime, if you know what to buy and how to look after them. Bring along your own secateurs and Jenny will guide you through cleaning and sharpening your own pair. There are so many different garden tools to choose from but how do you pick the right one? The wrong tool can make a job hard to do and at worst cause injury to you and your plants! Which tools are worth investing in and which tool are likely to remain unused. What can we do to extend the life of our tools and how can we keep our blades sharp? In this gardening workshop, we will look at what are the essential tools every gardener should have to hand and introduce some lesser-known tools that can make garden tasks easier to perform and less likely to cause joint strain. We will also look at how to extend the life of our tools and keep the blade of our snippers nice and sharp. You Will Learn: -Why spades are not all the same -How a selection of different tools can make light work of weeding. -How to choose the right cutting tool for the job. -How to preserve the life of your tools. -How to clean & sharpen your own pair of secateurs The Venue: Our very own studio space is set within the grounds of Old Barn Garden Centre, Dial Post, South of Horsham.