Harvest Your Crop With A Hand Pruner
Growing your own herbs and vegetables can be a very enjoyable pastime, particularly when it comes time to enjoy the crops you have grown. Being able to walk out into the back garden and snip off a leaf here or pluck a few vegetables there is a very satisfying experience. For this reason it is essential that you have the right tools for harvesting your produce and that you do not damage the plants in case it affects the production of more.
In order to cut the leaves and the small stems when harvesting from the garden you will be using a pair of hand pruners. If you are inexperienced with buying hand pruners you should know that there are two types of hand pruner and they are designed for two different types of pruning.
The first type is anvil pruners. These pruners consist of a sharp upper blade that closes onto a metal block-like blade. The lower blade is the anvil part of the pruners and they are designed for cutting twiggy sticks and dead branches. This is the type of hand pruner you would use at the end of the growing season when your plants have completed their growing cycle and they are dying back. Anvil pruners would crush the delicate stems of young and growing plants.
The hand pruners you will become most acquainted with are bypass pruners. Bypass pruners look very much like a pair of scissors, although the blades of a pair of bypass pruners are curved so that the stems are cut more cleanly. The blades of bypass pruners pass closely by each other so that the plant is not damaged when the stem is cut from the trunk.
You might find that whenever you head out into the garden you will take your hand pruners with you in case something needs to be cleaned up or so that a particularly tasty looking vegetable can be harvested and brought inside.
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