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 ...

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 ...

Tools lose their edge and become dull. That’s a fact of their existence. But it’s also a fact that they need not stay that way. Sharpening nearly anything, from a shovel to a putty knife to a plane to ...

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 ...

At the start of growing season, part of the necessary prep every homeowner with hopes of a greener yard tacks (or should tack) onto the to-do list involves the cleaning and sharpening of lawn mower ...

Why do I need to sharpen my lawn mower blade? When you mow your lawn with a dull lawn mower blade, the grass doesn’t cut. It tears. The jagged edge of a torn grass blade allows diseases to enter the ...

Dull lawn mower blades are no good for your yard. Instead of cutting grass cleanly, blades that are nicked or pitted rip grass blades which can lead to disease. Sharpening your mower blades every few ...

After gathering everything you need, disconnect your mower’s power source. If you have a gas-powered mower, remove the spark plug. If you have a battery-powered mower, remove the battery. With a gas ...