{"id":1910,"date":"2014-11-21T00:00:44","date_gmt":"2014-11-21T08:00:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/hortlib\/tool\/garden-tip-101\/"},"modified":"2014-11-21T00:00:44","modified_gmt":"2014-11-21T08:00:44","slug":"garden-tip-101","status":"publish","type":"tool","link":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/hortlib\/tool\/garden-tip-101\/","title":{"rendered":"Garden Tip #101"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Seize the opportunity offered by stormy weather to clean and sharpen your garden tools. William Bryant Logan, author of <em>Smith and Hawken&#8217;s The Tool Book <\/em>(Workman, 1997), suggests a simple maintenance regime. First scrub the dirt off your shovels, trowels, forks and pruners, then plunge the long handled tools into a sand filled bucket to which a bit of vegetable oil has been added, finish off by wiping everything off with an oiled rag.<br \/>\nFor pruners dulled by use and abuse a little sharpening work now translates into clean cuts that heal quickly. Fine Gardening offers  detailed <a href=\"http:\/\/www.finegardening.com\/video-how-sharpen-pruners\">pruner sharpening instructions with video<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Seize the opportunity offered by stormy weather to clean and sharpen your garden tools. William Bryant Logan, author of Smith and Hawken&#8217;s The Tool Book (Workman, 1997), suggests a simple maintenance regime. First scrub the dirt off your shovels, trowels, forks and pruners, then plunge the long handled tools into a sand filled bucket to which a bit of vegetable oil has been added, finish off by wiping everything off with an oiled rag. For pruners dulled by use and&#8230;<\/p>\n<div><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/hortlib\/tool\/garden-tip-101\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Garden Tip #101<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":0,"menu_order":0,"template":"","keyword":[67],"class_list":["post-1910","tool","type-tool","status-publish","hentry","keyword-tools-and-equipment"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/hortlib\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tool\/1910"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/hortlib\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tool"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/hortlib\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/tool"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/hortlib\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/hortlib\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1910"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"keyword","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/hortlib\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/keyword?post=1910"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}