Gardening

You set the blade down parallel to the soil and slide it around just under the surface of the soil. You hold the handle with a thumbs-up grip and stand up straight. No bending or back strain. I cover 500 square feet of planting beds in about thirty minutes.

The other hoes are shaped for mixing concrete in a wheelbarrow.



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I don't pick every weed out and throw it in the aisle. That's wasted work. If that little weed is going to try to regrow, I will hit it again next time.

I also have a dandelion digger for those deep rooted plants that show up. I roto-till the aisles two or three times per year. That old tiller gets harder to start every year, though. Sometimes I hack at the aisle with a cultivator, or throw down cardboard if the vines cut off the aisle. Cardboard is slug habit, so we are careful not to overwater the beds.