{"id":5162,"date":"2011-04-05T18:31:04","date_gmt":"2011-04-05T17:31:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gardeningregisterblog.co.uk\/?p=5162"},"modified":"2019-10-20T14:53:48","modified_gmt":"2019-10-20T13:53:48","slug":"geoff-hamiltons-easy-way-to-clean-your-gardening-tools","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gardeningregisterblog.co.uk\/index.php\/geoff-hamiltons-easy-way-to-clean-your-gardening-tools\/","title":{"rendered":"Geoff Hamilton&#8217;s Easy Way to Clean your Gardening Tools"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/gardeningregisterblog.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/geoffhamilton.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-15741\" src=\"https:\/\/gardeningregisterblog.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/geoffhamilton.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"215\" height=\"281\" \/><\/a>I was chatting to my brother about remembering the wonderful Geoff Hamilton showing us how he cleaned his gardening tools.<\/p>\n<p>Looking through his book &#8220;Gardeners&#8217; World Practical Gardening Course&#8221; I found the article on page 29; here&#8217;s what to do:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Fill a box or tub with sharp sand and pour in a bucketful of old engine oil<\/li>\n<li>Before putting your digging tools away, shove the blades into the sand and work them up and down a few times to clean and oil at the same time<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Sounds good to me so I think I&#8217;m going to keep one at the allotment.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I was chatting to my brother about remembering the wonderful Geoff Hamilton showing us how he cleaned his gardening tools. Looking through his book &#8220;Gardeners&#8217; World Practical Gardening Course&#8221; I found the article on page 29; here&#8217;s what to do: Fill a box or tub with sharp sand and pour in a bucketful of old [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4836],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5162","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-chat","czr-hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gardeningregisterblog.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5162","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gardeningregisterblog.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gardeningregisterblog.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gardeningregisterblog.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gardeningregisterblog.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5162"}],"version-history":[{"count":13,"href":"https:\/\/gardeningregisterblog.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5162\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15742,"href":"https:\/\/gardeningregisterblog.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5162\/revisions\/15742"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gardeningregisterblog.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5162"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gardeningregisterblog.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5162"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gardeningregisterblog.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5162"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}