How To Treat Garden Tool Handles

Fine sandpaper or steel wool will take care of small rusty spots.

How to treat garden tool handles. The right way to sharpen a garden tool. Stop settling for dull rusty tools and cracked handles. Wrap a piece of 120-grit sandpaper around the base of the handle where it meets the shovels metal blade.

If youve rinsed off and dried your rakes shovels trowels garden forks or other hand tools after each use you wont have to do much at the end of the season. The handles of these tools are quite rough and splintery. Sign up below for free access.

Id first sharpen the tools before doing the handle oiling. Music by the Jingle punks. The handles stay smooth throughout the gardening season.

In this video I refurbish an old shovel that sat out in the weather for years. Scrub away stubborn soil with a scrub brush and use paint thinner to remove sap and pitch. It was rusty and the handle was dry rough and dirty but at least the head was still firmly attached.

Then I do it again before putting the tools away in the fall. Apply another coat of boiled linseed oil only to wood handles that are. Veg oil would work but it would need a while to soak in.

I sanded off all the original varnish grim and filth and got it to smooth bare wood. Clinging wet soil is the main cause of rust on garden tools. Apply a thin layer of oil with a.