Grow Guides
Practical guides for people who actually use their tools: keeping blades cutting cleanly, choosing the right shape for the job, cutting technique that plants recover from, and getting a harvest dried and stored without losing quality.
Care & Repair
Cleaning, oiling, sharpening and the small fixes that bring a stiff pair of snips back to life. Start here if you already own the tool.
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How to Remove Sticky Sap & Resin from Pruning Snips (What Works, What Damages the Blade)
Ten minutes of pinching tomato side shoots or cutting back a basil plant, and your snips start to drag. The blades feel gummy, they do not spring open as quickly, and the cuts start to crush instead of slice. Leave them overnight and the residue sets into a dark, varnish-like film that will not wipe…
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How to Sharpen (and Clean) Micro-Tip Snips & Bonsai Scissors Without Ruining the Fine Tips
Fine-tipped snips and detail scissors are the easiest pruning tools to sharpen badly. The blades are short, the tips are narrow, and the whole point of the tool is a precise cut right at the very end. A few heavy-handed strokes on the wrong side of the blade, or on a coarse file, and you…
Choosing Tools
Blade types, blade shapes and sizes compared honestly, including where each one stops being the right choice.
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Curved vs Straight Trimming Scissors: Which Blade Do You Need for Herbs & Indoor Plants?
Pick up two pairs of micro-tip snips — one with a straight blade, one with a gentle curve — and they look almost identical. Use them for an evening on a crowded shelf of herbs and they feel like different tools. The straight pair goes exactly where you point it. The curved pair reaches around…
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Bonsai Scissors: What 40 mm and 60 mm Actually Mean
The millimetre figure on a pair of bonsai scissors is the blade length, not the size of the tool and not the thickness of stem it can cut. Here is what it changes.
Technique
How and where to cut — pruning, pinching, propagation and sanitising between plants — for herbs, houseplants and bonsai.
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The Indoor Pruning Hub: Tools, Techniques & Plant-by-Plant Guides
Most indoor plants never get pruned on purpose. They get pruned by accident — a dead leaf pulled off here, a leggy stem snapped there — and then the plant grows lopsided, thin and tall, reaching for a window. A few deliberate cuts a month fix most of that. This hub collects everything we have…
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Sterilizing orchid cutting tools: why alcohol is not enough
Rubbing alcohol handles bacteria and fungi but not the two viruses that spread between orchids on a blade. What actually works, at what strength, and where to cut a spike.
Harvest & Dry
Harvesting, trimming, drying and storing so the work you put in during the season survives the last two weeks.
In the meantime, the Harvest & Curing Checklist below covers the essentials.
The Tools Behind These Guides
Every guide is written around gear we actually make and use. Browse the trimming shears, trays, and scissors growers reach for at harvest.
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The Harvest & Curing Checklist
Until the full guides land, this is the short version: the drying window, the snap test, the burping schedule, and what to do when something goes wrong. Tell us where to send it.
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