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Post by brownrexx on Nov 22, 2019 8:52:00 GMT -5
The gardening season has ended for the year for many of us. Do you do anything special to your tools before putting them away for the season?
I don't actually use a lot of hand tools, mainly a shovel, rake, pruners and garden shears for cutting twine and small stems.
My tools are stored in my attached garage, so not exposed to the elements.
I basically just brush off the dirt or give them a squirt with the hose and they sit in the garage for the winter.
I wash my pruners and shears under running water and they also sit in the garage for the season. I do not use any disinfectants on any of my tools.
Garden gloves usually get thrown away and I start the next season with bright new ones.
The roto tiller has Stabil added to the gas tank and then it sits in the shed until next year.
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Post by Laura_in_FL on Nov 22, 2019 9:33:39 GMT -5
The garden season never ends here, so I never put garden tools away for the season. Since we got the shed, the large manual tools (rakes, shovels, etc.) and the powered tools (lawnmower, weed whacker, etc.) are kept in there when not in use. I keep some of my less frequently used hand tools in bins on shelves in the shed as well. I also have my fertilizers and soil amendments in the shed now, so they are no longer exposed to weather and rodents like they were on the back porch. Critters, probably rats, have chewed holes through the screening multiple occasions in the past to get to organic fertilizers when they were kept on the back porch. So far nothing has chewed through the aluminum siding or plywood flooring of the shed to get to anything. But I keep a trowel, a hand pruner, and my hori-hori knife hanging from hooks on the potting bench, which is on the back porch. I use one or more of those three tools practically every time I go to the garden, so it is a lot more convenient to have them on the potting bench, where I can grab them on the way from the house to the garden. It's also convenient to hang these tools up on my way back into the house. I think I am going to start keeping a pair of garden gloves there, too.
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Post by pepperhead212 on Nov 22, 2019 10:01:33 GMT -5
The Stabil is the only thing I do for any of them, too, but I use that year round, at least in the things I don't often use, like the hand mower and the 'tiller. I put some in the Cub Cadet with the last refill. The hand tools just hang where they always do. I keep things like trowels in the shed, the back porch, and even a heavy plastic one in the garden area at all times - why go looking for them? lol I did put that one away in the shed for the winter, however.
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Post by paulf on Nov 22, 2019 11:09:12 GMT -5
Hand tools get all the dirt cleaned off and metal parts sprayed with WD-40 (used to be rubbed with oil, but now the lazy in me uses a spray can). The tools with engines either get the gas emptied out or stabilizer added to the tank.
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Post by ladymarmalade on Nov 24, 2019 8:59:47 GMT -5
I'm pretty sure all my garden tools are still in random positions in the garden since I never got out there to clean up.
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Post by september on Nov 24, 2019 10:55:27 GMT -5
I have some old hand tools that stay out in the garden so I can always grab them on one of my unplanned random passes. I try to put them under an overturned tub before it snows, but missed doing that this time. If the snow melts, I may try to get them, but I have a feeling they may be there until spring. The tools I don't use a lot get stored in one of the old horse stalls, but they get no special cleaning because they get put away one by one as I am done with them.
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Post by Tim Horton on Nov 25, 2019 14:44:36 GMT -5
I HATE... Going to a barn or building and having to go to other buildings to get tools for the project at hand. So I try to keep a kit in each building. Easy to do as you find tools at garage sales, thrift stores and such.
Garden tools and such get stored in the big shop and under the lean to at the end of the lean to car port off the little shop..
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