How to Clean & Sharpen Your Garden Hand Pruners

No other gardening tool takes as much wear and tear as your hand pruners. We use them for regular pruning and we abuse them trying to cut branches much too big for them, confuse them for hammers and even expect them to cut twine and clip grass. To keep your hand pruners in top shape, despite the abuse, you need to keep them clean, sharp and lubricated. That may sound intimidating, but hand pruners are actually very simple to clean and sharpen and goodness knows they probably need it.