How To Treat Garden Tool Handles

Stop settling for dull rusty tools and cracked handles.

How to treat garden tool handles. The handles stay smooth throughout the gardening season. Our best tips for succeeding with hand tools. Now I started applying the coconut oil.

Id first sharpen the tools before doing the handle oiling. Sign up below for free access. At the end of every gardening day spend a few minutes to.

Linseed oil from flax seed is a great choice for garden tool handles. The right way to sharpen a garden tool. I use boiled linseed oil rather than raw linseed on my tool handles.

From this point on you can use 120-grit sandpaper to open the pores on the handle and apply boiled linseed oil annually to ensure long life. Alternatively you can clean dry tool handles with a metal brush and damp rag the goal being to relieve the handles of soil and scum that has accumulated in the crevices. If youve rinsed off and dried your rakes shovels trowels garden forks or other hand tools after each use you wont have to do much at the end of the season.

Wrap a piece of 120-grit sandpaper around the base of the handle where it meets the shovels metal blade. Some garden shovels need to have the original rivets sawed off in order to remove the old handle. Coconut Oil is typically solid at room.

How to take care of your wooden tool handles. Each spring I sand our gardening tool handles with 120-grit sandpaper and then rub a coat of boiled linseed oil on them. Music by the Jingle punks.