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  • From: "Maggie" <snowbird AT frontiernet.net>
  • To: "Market Farming" <market-farming AT lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: Re: [Market-farming] small tillers vs hoe
  • Date: Tue, 17 Jun 2003 23:04:29 -0400

I have just discovered the "hula hoe" Shaped like a square except for sides
which are slighly rounded. Just go back and forth on the soil and takes all
weeds out with little trouble. best tool I ever bought. I got mine at
Chase Pitkins
----- Original Message -----
From: "Marie Kamphefner" <kampy AT grm.net>
To: "'Market Farming'" <market-farming AT lists.ibiblio.org>
Sent: Sunday, June 15, 2003 11:50 AM
Subject: [Market-farming] small tillers vs hoe


>
>
> Regards to the list:
>
> I am tired of hoeing between plants by hand. It's wearing me out. I am
> thinking of getting one of those small tillers like a Mantis or
> something similar. Does anyone have any experience with those and would
> care to give me advice about what or if to buy? I wonder if one would
> get just as tired lugging it around. I am using a plain old hoe that I
> got at Walmart - well, it has a fabulous yellow fiberglass handle -
> perhaps a different kind of hoe would be better? I've seen all the
> different kinds of hoes offered at conferences and shows but I don't
> know which kind to get. I'll bet one of my books has information about
> hoes, but I'm just too tired to get up and find one. One of the things
> I like about hand-hoeing is the quiet. One can hear the birds sing, the
> wind rustling the leaves and the soft scuffling sound of the hoe going
> through the soil. A tiller would ruin all that, but maybe I would have
> time to sit in the shade and listen to the birds sing and the leaves
> rustle?
>
> Marie in Missouri
>
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