Choosing The Right Pruning Shears

The Beet: A Podcast For Plant Lovers

Epic Gardening

Home & Garden, Education, Leisure, How To

4.8 • 1.6K Ratings

🗓️ 11 May 2018

⏱️ 8 minutes

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Summary

Getting the best pruning shears is a necessity. Your pruning shears are one of your best tools as a gardener. How else do you get rid of excess growth or keep your plants trimmed to an appropriate size? But choosing the best pruning shears for your task can be a matter of personal preference, or it can be job-specific. Most of us have a few different types available depending on what we’re doing. Today, I’ll help you break down the various components of a quality pair of pruning shears and decide what, exactly, you’ll need to get your job done. With a quality pair of pruning shears, you’ll have no problem keeping everything properly trimmed! Learn More: Best Pruning Shears: Different Snips For Your Pruning Needs Keep Growing, Kevin Follow Epic Gardening Everywhere: YouTube Instagram Pinterest Facebook Facebook Group Twitter Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	What's up everyone? Welcome back to the show. Today we're going to be talking about
0:05.4	pruning shears. Might be a little bit of a dry topic, but honestly I find it
0:11.1	fascinating. There are so many different types of pruning shears.
0:14.0	What are the best ones? I've tested quite a few in my day and you know the real answer to this
0:20.0	stuff is always it depends. There's different types of pruning shears there's
0:24.2	different types of gardeners and so what we're going to talk about today is
0:27.2	some general ideas on what you're supposed to be looking for in a pruning
0:32.1	shear what makes one good and what makes
0:33.7	one bad, and then at the very end I will go over a couple of my top picks for pruning
0:37.9	shears depending on your unique situation or the type of pruning she cheer that you want.
0:42.6	Okay?
0:43.4	So let's go ahead and get into it.
0:45.3	How do you choose the best pruning shears?
0:48.2	Well, it really is going to depend on the type of work you're doing.
0:51.0	So if you're doing delicate detailed trimming work or you're trying to
0:55.2	really get in there with some thin snips, that's going to be a different product than if you're
0:59.9	trying to break down a dry woody bush to get rid of it. So let's go over some common features of
1:07.2	pruning shears and what they offer and that's going to help you decide which one you actually
1:11.4	need. Okay, here we go. Blade styles and types of cuts. So,
1:17.0	bypass pruning shears for most people are going to be the perfect choice. They're called
1:22.0	bypass shears because what's happening is the
1:25.5	upper blade of the shear slides completely past the lower blade in sort of like a scissor motion.
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