By Jennifer Poindexter
horticulture tools are something we use regularly around the garden but frequently take for granted . One thing I ’ve learned over my year of gardening is to take fear of your tools .
If you do n’t , they become excessively lousy , rusty , do n’t sour very well , and can even spread disease . I like to have a cleanup number for my garden tools to keep everything mold as it should .
My typical routine throughout the garden time of year is to pick my putz with oily water any time I deal with questionable plants .
If you see something that looks sick or pathological and your garden dick touched it , clean the tool . This could halt the inadvertent spreading of a disease around your garden .
I also wish toclean my toolswith warm water supply and scoop after each use around my garden . Then I place them on the shelf in my glasshouse and allow them to be heated by the Lord’s Day .
My greenhouse develop passably hot over the summertime months , so I feel surefooted that my tools are desexualise .
At the end of each time of year , I round off up all of my tools and give them a bathroom with warm water supply and dish liquid . This remove anything which may have built - up throughout the garden season .
Then I dry out them with a towel and spray each instrument with cooking atomizer . This oil anything that needs it and keeps everything looking shiny .
Again , I ’ll place the tools on my workbench in my glasshouse and take into account everything to harden . I ’ll complete the project by putting everything away for the wintertime .
If I happen to pull my tools out over the wintertime months ( as I like to raise sure dusty weather crop ) , I clean them with max and water before deliver them to their storage location when done .
This is how I care to keep my tools unclouded to assure they last and also to avoid spreading disease . Consider cleaning your tools throughout the gardening time of year and at the oddment of the season as well .
More About Garden Tools
https://hort.extension.wisc.edu/articles/maintaining-lawn-and-garden-tools/
https://extension.colostate.edu/topic-areas/yard-garden/tool-care/
https://extension.umn.edu/planting-and-growing-guides/clean-and-disinfect-gardening-tools
