Budding Knife Views

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Budding knives are extremely thin-bladed, with both right-handed and left-handed versions. Image 1 shows opposite sides of a typical right-handed budding knife--the side of the blade shown on the upper knife is flat (unground) while the opposite side (the lower knife) is ground down to the cutting edge. Many budders prefer high carbon steel blades (rather than stainless steel) because they are more easily kept sharpened to a razor edge.

Image 5 is a side view showing the relatively shallow depth of the point of the budding knife as it starts to make the vertical part of the T-incision. The bark is quite thin and very soft, so a sharp knife easily penetrates and cuts the bark with very little pressure. There is no reason to cut into the wood--with practice, you can feel the knife tip as it penetrates the bark and makes contact with the wood.

While they don ’t get the same attention as a trowel or fork, a garden knife is an essential tool for any gardener. They are great for so many tasks from simple digging to something as advanced as budding a rosebush. I became a believer when Blake gave me a Hori Hori knife for Christmas one year. I went quickly from wondering what he was thinking to wondering just how I had ever worked in the garden without it. I found myself using it for jobs ranging from planting, weeding, repotting, cleaning out cracks, dividing plants to opening the bag of potting soil, and it

For harvesting your fruits, vegetables or herbs, you can choose from a variety including the asparagus knife or the mushroom knife made by Burgon and Ball or the our best selling Japanese serrated blade hand sickle. For the more advanced gardener, Victorinox, the people who make the Swiss Army Knife, makes several great choices for pruning, grafting and budding. And for a really big clean up or cutting job, check out the brush hook from DeWit, a big bad boy that will cut almost anything. So before you get back out into the garden this spring, maybe itt’s time to buy yourself a great gardening knife.

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