Garden tools can sustain a lot of wear and tear during the growing season, so cleaning and maintaining them is essential if you want your tools to last. While it may be tempting to wait until spring ...

Vinegar’s natural acidity helps loosen rust and dirt from your gardening tools with little to no effort. Regularly cleaning gardening tools prolongs their lifespan and minimizes cross-contamination.

Over time, as iron, steel, and other ferrous metals are exposed to oxygen and moisture they can undergo oxidation, a chemical reaction that eats away at the metal and rust your tools. Left long enough ...

"This is so helpful." Gardener shocked by how effective 1-ingredient hack is at removing rust from tools: 'Look how clean this thing got' first appeared on The Cool Down.

Easy tips for cleaning your garden tools. Learn easy tips to clean your gardening tools to stop rust, prevent disease and give them longer life. Tom Butzler from Penn State Extension talks you through ...

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By Karen Gibson With the holidays behind us, now is a great time to turn attention to garden tools. Whether Santa brought new ...

We all know that double-dipping a chip in a shared guacamole bowl is rude. It's also unsanitary because you can transfer your bacteria to the communal bowl of dip. The same thing happens when you clip ...

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When I lived in the country, my late husband and gardening pal, Hank, filled a huge pole barn full of antique tools he’d collected and the equipment needed to refurbish them, so I had all the stuff I ...