It won’t matter
even if you’re not an experienced gardener. It doesn’t require professional
skills to maintain a beautiful garden as long as you know the basics of
protecting it, you’re cool. Taking care of your garden tools is one necessity. Tending
a garden starts with the proper usage of garden tools. Keeping your garden
tools away from rust that damages your garden tools making it difficult to use.
Here are some ways you just need to take note to protect your garden tools from
rusting.
1. Keep garden tools clean and dry
It’s
substantial to keep your garden tools clean and dry to prevent it from getting
diseases, fungi, insect eggs that can transfer to your garden making your
garden plants lose its natural stature. Maintaining a clean garden tool will
also increase its life to last long and you don’t need to replace it
frequently. It’s much cheaper and more efficient that way.
2. Remove rust
Rust
can cause your tools to get stuck easily so, it’s important to wipe it off. If
we don’t remove rust the sooner it dominated on your garden tools, it can cause
a damage to the natural environment of a garden.
3. Polish garden tools
Polishing
of garden tools is a given task. Polishing helps to keep rust away from your
tools. So, sanding them down is a way to remove splinters that make garden
tools in a bad shape. Specially if your tools are metal or even wooden, it’s
more prone for rust to spread.
4. 4.Sharpen garden tools
Sharpened
tools can help and save time. It can make your job easier because of how
convenient it is. Like for digging soil, if your tools are sharpened it’s easy
to use and the soil won’t be that hard for you to dig.
5. Season with oil
Moisturize
garden tools to prevent from rusting and cracking. Like in skin, to make it
healthy and young looking, we moisture it with skin products. But with tools,
we lubricate it to make sure if was still reliable and ready to work when
needed. The metal need grease for smooth movement and to avoid it from rust.
6. Sterilize
Germs
can form if tools are not sterilized properly. That’s why it’s important to
cleanse it to destroy germs that can harm the tools. It will not just protect
the tools but also the garden.
7. Store in a dry place
Storing
it in a dry place can secure your tools from being harmed and transmitted with
germs, bacteria, and diseases. Dry place is a safe place for your tools to not
cause rust. Storing it in a dry place and airy place—like a shed will prevent
your tools from resting to the floor where dampness is lurking that can cause
damage to your tools.
Rust is just a typical problem a gardener can encounter. This is just some extra ways you can find to protect your tools. We suggest that you should start with the fragile pieces like hand trowels or shovels that is much exposed compared to your other tools. You just need to wipe down all metal or wooden surfaces with oil-based lubricant before keeping them. This will secure the seal to not form any cracks on the tool and moisture cannot enter and wear down the parts of the metal surfaces that could lead to dents in time.