As soon as the temperatures outside climb up and the sun comes out more often, hobby gardeners can hardly wait. The new gardening season has finally begun. For many, things can't go fast enough. Spades, scissors & Co. are grabbed and off you go. Stop! Before the garden tools are taken out of the winter quarters and used, they should be checked for functionality. This is particularly important with pruning shears. If you cut with blunt scissors, you risk injuring the plants. Besides, it's a lot more fun to work with proper tools, isn't it?
Pruning shears lose their sharp edge over years of gardening. This has nothing to do with the quality of the secateurs, it just happens. After all, the relatively small tool often has to cut thick branches and branches. In order for your secateurs to impress with a clean cut again, they simply have to be sharpened. If you haven't done this before, you're probably wondering how it actually works. I can only recommend the above video from the YouTube channel Gartenzeit TV. All steps are shown and explained in detail here. Then nothing can go wrong!
By the way, the same procedure also applies to lawn mowers: Sharpen the lawn mower blade - sharp cutting edge for a clean cut