Photo by Rick Gush
I ca n’t live without my garden scissors hold !
normally when I wax poetic about by my garden tools , I ’m talking about stout , blacksmith - made shovels , picks and trowel that I can get here in Italy . Today , however , I ’m going to glorify one of my rarely - bring up but often - used garden tools : my scissors .
Many other garden tools can be used or else , but scissor hold are safer . My hand have several slight scar from my garden knives last skew-whiff and a few adult scars from my pruning shears , but I have dead no scars from my scissors . Garden scissor grip are also very inexpensive . I devote 32 euro for my latest pair of garden shears , but I only paid 1 euro for my duet of scissors .
Garden scissor hold are really good for harvesting shekels and other soft thing that need to be cut . With my garden scissors , I can well bring down a head word of lettuce , cut mash off the vine or harvest herb , such as marjoram and sage . Scissors are also not bad for harvest home flower . I cut a minor bouquet of roses with my scissor grip yesterday .
A yoke of garden pair of scissors is obviously a honest tool for cutting twine and twist tie . I use a muckle of green , plastic - covered wire to tie up plants in the garden and wrap caboodle of herbs and flower . I used the scissor hold to cut the twist - affiliation for supporting the peas yesterday , and I used the scissors for cutting ties for a caboodle of herbs that I harvest today .
Scissors are , of course of instruction , a great tool for cutting clobber like plastic sheeting and shade cloth . It rain down hard a few twenty-four hours ago , so I used my scissors the day before yesterday to thin out up some sure-enough plastic cement bags to make protective wrap for a one-half chemise of special cementum that came in a paper pouch .
pair of scissors are good for dig holes in wraith cloth to allow cord to be attached , and they are also expert for open up composition board box of escargot meal and opening move sacks of concrete . Scissors are also good for abstemious pruning in the garden , and I use them almost every daylight to keep my unruly beginning jasmine trellis look nicely trim . Back when I had a mountain of bonsai plants , I had a whole retinue of expensive Nipponese shears , but the pruning tool I used most often was my regular dyad of scissor hold .
Perhaps the practiced but least - frequent use of scissors in the garden is for thinning seedling . I have majuscule trouble seed sparsely , so everything from radishes to cultivated carrot and pea tend to germinate and become a second crowded in my garden , and none of those do well unless the plants are space by rights . So , I want to do a lot of seedling cutting .
In my youth , I used to pinch the seedlings with my finger or pull out the undesirable baby plants , but pulling out seedlings often causes root damage to neighbour seedlings , whose root are intertwined with the seedlings being removed . Once I discovered using scissors for thinning seedlings , I never went back to the other method .
Scissors are the out-and-out must - have garden tool for your garden .
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