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  • From: road's end farm <organic101 AT linkny.com>
  • To: Market Farming <market-farming AT lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: Re: [Market-farming] hoes
  • Date: Sun, 13 Mar 2005 12:47:56 -0500


On Mar 13, 2005, at 12:29 PM, TxBeeFarmer wrote:

We're talking serious hoes now.

http://www.strikingtools.net/hoe.html

Mark (West Texas Zone 7b)
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Yup. Those are grub hoes; and a nice selection of them, too. I've got a couple, and they are available a number of places. They're great for an entirely out of control situation, and/or an occasional spectacularly stubborn weed (a young tree or old grapevine, for instance, that managed to survive preliminary tillage). You can take a good hard swing with lots of muscle behind it and not break them. But they're not what I want for small to moderate sized annual weeds in a series of long rows; they'd probably move a lot more soil than necessary (thereby bringing up more weed seed into the germination zone); and they'd certainly wear me out a lot faster, as they're a much heavier tool used as a chopper.





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