It's the time of year when the weather is having its first faltering steps towards warming up. Every now and then you'll look down and shake your head at the few dim bulbs that are sending up green shoots (daffodils, I find, are the main offenders). Yes, spring, that magical time of year when a young man's thoughts turn to... gardening! Why, what did you think we were going to talk about?
While Heimerdinger Cutlery has a lot of knives, we also carry some Felco gardening tools, which I'll be talking more about in a few days. More importantly, we also sharpen garden tools.
Bring us your dull, your nicked,
Your hedge trimmers longing to be used,
The refuse from your garden shed.
Send these, the unusable, rust-stained to us,
We grind their edges behind the shop room's door.
Now is a wonderful time for locals to bring in their gardening tools to be sharpened. What do I mean by that? I mean your limb loppers, your grass shears, your pruners. Sadly, I don't think we sharpen mower blades anymore (I'll double check that for you tomorrow), but we do sell sharpening stones so that you can touch up the edges yourself.
Luckily it is still early enough in the year, and we've gotten enough snow, that nobody has brought any by. Yet. Bring them by now, before it's too late! Before Carl is buried under a pile of sharpening work!
Better yet, go ahead and mark your calendar for this winter. January and February are the best times to bring in big sharpening jobs, because they're slower. The holidays are over, Derby is far off, so there aren't many knives in. It's not a time when you'll need your gardening tools, so it's perfect. But for now, just go ahead, bring them in and we'll get you ready for Spring.
More Spring prep to come. Watch this space!
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