• 248 customer reviews

    From gardeners just like you

  • Free shipping

    On every order

  • No-hassle replacement

    If a tool breaks, we send a new one

  • Works in either hand

    Left- or right-handed

Less squeeze, same clean cut

  • 1. Squeeze gently

    The blade bites into the branch.

  • 2. Relax your grip

    The ratchet holds the blade in place while your hand rests.

  • 3. Squeeze again

    Each click cuts further until the branch is through.
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Adaptive gardening tools that do the hard work

What gardeners tell us

  • ★★★★★

    "Really eases the irritation to arthritic hands when pruning time comes around. I give them top marks!"

    Ratchet Pruners customer

  • ★★★★★

    "I garden professionally, still, though I am now 70 years old. I find these pruners surprisingly useful."

    April C.

  • ★★★★★

    "I purchased my pruner on Amazon in 2016. It’s still working great."

    Mike R., Arizona
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Paul and Nancy Grimm, the founders of TGF. The couple are wearing blue tops and smiling at each other against a backdrop of a green woodland

Made by a gardener who needed it

The Gardener's Friend began when founder Paul Grimm's own hands started to fail him and he couldn't find pruners he could still use. So he made his own.

Today the brand is run by Red Earth Commerce, a family-owned company in Oklahoma, with the same goal: keep you gardening for longer.

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