pruner
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Use sharp snips or bypass pruner to make a clean cut that looks tidy and closes up quickly.
From Seattle Times ● Jan. 17, 2024
Her mother works as a gardener and pruner in the Washington area.
From New York Times ● Jun. 17, 2018
Chances are her arsenal includes a dinged-up trowel, a dull hand pruner and garden gloves with gaping holes.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 30, 2016
"He was nice but he was depressed," said Eugene Hernandez, a tree pruner staying at the shelter.
From Reuters ● Mar. 23, 2015
The pruner should be able to distinguish fruit-buds from leaf-buds in such species as cherries, plums, apricot, peach, pear, apple, and so prune as to spare these buds or to thin them understandingly.
From Manual of Gardening (Second Edition) by Bailey, L. H. (Liberty Hyde)
To harvest, wait until after the first light frost, which will sweeten their flavor, then pull hips off the plant or clip them using scissors or pruners.
From Washington Times ● Oct. 13, 2023
Use a clean pair of pruners to cut about a quarter-inch below the node at a 45-degree angle.
From Washington Post ● Feb. 23, 2022
Disinfect pruners and planting pots and containers with a solution of one-part household bleach and ten-parts water.
From Salon ● Jul. 13, 2021
Felco No. 2 hand pruners are a Swiss-made classic, the crème de la crème of garden pruners and, lately, hard to come by.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 6, 2021
He had his gloves and Great-Uncle Jim’s special pruners.
From "Unusual Chickens for the Exceptional Poultry Farmer" by Kelly Jones
