Secateur holsters

SECATEURS are the gardening tool most people tend to have. They are essential for all forms of trimming and light pruning as well as dead-heading and general tidying, so most of us pick them up automatically whenever we go into the garden, even if we are not going out to do any pruning.

The trouble is that carrying them in a pocket, whether it is a jacket or coat, jeans or trousers, means that before long the point of the blades starts to wear a hole in the fabric. This is not really something you can avoid, because they have to be placed in the pocket blades first so you can draw them out by the handles,