Over the weekend I needed to harvest a large bag of spinach. There were two ways I could have done this, either pull the entire plant out by the root or pinch off leaves one at a time.
I prefer using the second method. This allows the plant to keep producing if the growing conditions are right.
The problem was that I had injured my hand a couple of weeks ago and the pinching motion really hurt my finger. Using a pair of scissors could have been used, but then I would have needed two hands… one to snip the leaf and the other to hold it and put it in the bag.
It came to me out of the blue… there was a way I could snip the spinach leaf and pop it into the bag all with one hand in one smooth motion, I would just use my Fiskars that I normally use for cutting flowers.
This handy little tool resembles a pair of scissors. It has a cutting blade and a springy clamp that gently holds the stem of the flower you are cutting. This allows you to reach into a bed to cut a flower with only one hand.
I found out it works just as well on Spinach!
Bob