{"id":3770,"date":"2018-10-15T05:00:00","date_gmt":"2018-10-15T12:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kk.org\/cooltools\/fiskars-softouc\/"},"modified":"2018-10-13T16:34:41","modified_gmt":"2018-10-13T23:34:41","slug":"fiskars-softouc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kk.org\/cooltools\/fiskars-softouc\/","title":{"rendered":"Fiskars Softouch Micro-Tip Pruning Snip"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Fiskars&#8217; PowerGear Bypass Pruner, <a href=\"https:\/\/kk.org\/cooltools\/fiskars-powerge-1\/\">previously reviewed<\/a>, is the handiest, most used tool in my vegetable garden, but it&#8217;s too big and clunky for precision cutting of young salad greens and herbs. For that task, the company&#8217;s Pruning Snip is an outstanding and inexpensive tool.<\/p>\n<p>Snipping action requires little effort because the short blades are quite sharp and a spring in the center of the handle returns the shear to its open position after each cut. A small garden scissors could work almost as well as the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/exec\/obidos\/ASIN\/B00004SD76\/cooltools-20\">Fiskars Softouch Micro-Tip Pruning Snip<\/a> ($12), but the spring-activated light-action cutting makes a big difference for ease of use. Like the larger pruner mentioned above, this model gives a lot of cutting output with disproportionately little input. This shear is also useful for carefully thinning densely grouped seedlings by cutting the excess plants at their bases.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Precise garden snip<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0},"categories":[38],"tags":[],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3770"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3770"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3770\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":32371,"href":"https:\/\/kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3770\/revisions\/32371"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3770"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3770"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3770"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}