Vinegar’s natural acidity helps loosen rust and dirt from your gardening tools with little to no effort. Regularly cleaning gardening tools prolongs their lifespan and minimizes cross-contamination.

Over time, as iron, steel, and other ferrous metals are exposed to oxygen and moisture they can undergo oxidation, a chemical reaction that eats away at the metal and rust your tools. Left long enough ...

Whether you inherited them from your parents or grandparents, or got them for a great price at a yard sale or flea market, you may have some rusty tools sitting around your home, basement, or garage ...

Steel wool is a great tool for helping remove surface rust on metal. Available in various grades from fine to super fine, ...

We all know that double-dipping a chip in a shared guacamole bowl is rude. It's also unsanitary because you can transfer your bacteria to the communal bowl of dip. The same thing happens when you clip ...

While we might try our hardest to always keep our tools clean and dry, they may still battle rust. When your prevention methods fail, common wisdom might be to toss out the damaged tools—and sometimes ...

Hand pouring a can of cola in clear glass - Rfranca/Getty Images Having a variety of essential gardening tools is important if you want to maintain a healthy yard or garden. It can be a challenge ...

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When I lived in the country, my late husband and gardening pal, Hank, filled a huge pole barn full of antique tools he’d collected and the equipment needed to refurbish them, so I had all the stuff I ...

The Springfield News-Leader in Springfield, Missouri, partners with the Master Gardeners of Green County each week to bring readers a question-and-answer column with some of the expert horticulturists ...