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February 12, 2011

Tool Time: Fiskars pruners

Fellow garden bloggers Amy Stewart of Garden Rant and Gen Schmidt of North Coast Gardening review Fiskar's new pruners in this video.

They describe a swivel grip and talk about how much more ergonomic it feels for gardeners with hand issues, and they compare it to Felco pruners with fixed handles.

However, the Felco pruners I recieved for Christmas last year have the swivel grip, and I found it annoying. It felt like I could never get a "grip" on my pruners, and I thought perhaps it was so that lefties could use them more easily!

If you look around the YouTube version of the pruners review, you will see these ladies checking out other Fiskars tools.

Oh. And notice the guest appearance by the chicken. Too cute for words.

Posted by Susan Reimer at 8:00 AM | Permalink | Comments (2)
Categories: Garden tools

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I'll be checking these pruners out. Lately hand and wrist strain is an issue and these look like an answer. Loved the chickens....

Posted by: ruth | February 12, 2011 9:28 AM

Chickens (plural!)

Posted by: Dahlink | February 12, 2011 12:31 PM

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About Susan Reimer

Susan Reimer has spent 16 years writing about raising kids - among other topics - in her column for The Baltimore Sun. And every time son Joseph or daughter Jessie passed another milestone - driver's license, college, wedding or a move to a new military duty station - she has planted another garden. Now she will be writing about those gardens - and yours - here on Garden Variety.

Susan isn't an expert gardener, but she wasn't an expert mother, either. Both - the kids and the gardens - seem to be doing well in spite of her.

She lives in Annapolis with her husband, Gary Mihoces, who loves to cut his grass but has noticed that there seems to be less of it every time the kids pass another milestone.

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