Harbour Housewares Full Size Azada Garden Digging Hoe with Wooden Handle - 110cm

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For clearing away the autumn leaves and drawing lines in your soil to plant vegetables and vibrant flowers for the summer, our wide selection of garden rakes will help you keep your garden looking neat and tidy. The GARDENA hand hoe is part of their combisystem range of tools that lets you combine different handles and heads.

The double edged stainless steel blade allows excellent cutting on both the push and the pull movements. There are specially designed teeth to aid the pull motion when cutting to make it easier to cut through the soil and make cuts. The blade has a width of only 13.5cm which to be quite frank could have been slightly wider, especially when the Fiskars QuikFit Push-Pull Weeder has an extra 2cm on it. It’s not the end of the world but it just would have made more sense to me to make it the same size. Nevertheless, I really like this tool because it makes it very easy to use for extended periods of time and does exactly what it’s designed to do. ProsFor small gardens such as those contained in boxes, consider getting a hand hoe. It’s small and designed to be held in one hand. B. Handle The handle is the secret for using these digging hoes. It acts as a lever to break the compacted soil loose and lift it from the ground. You can actually lift the end of the handle with one finger. It has been specially designed to provide more hoeing power with less effort on your part. The hoe head can chop straight through tree roots and clear the densest of weedy ground. Briars and woody growth pose no problem, and you are able to clear the root system at the same time.

Lastly, in my eyes the light weight options are always going to be better, as long as you’re not going to Fisher Price to buy your tools you should be ok. Heavyweight tools are needed of course but we assess the workload and use them accordingly. Which material is best for the blade? Ask any gardener worth his salt which tools they class as important and I guarantee that a garden hoe will be high on that list – much easier than a weeder, but lighter than a spade. Hoes have been used since ancient times to clear or shape soil in preparation for planting, to remove weeds, to harvest potatoes and other root foods, as well many other uses.The design is simple enough, a blade on the end of a shaft, but a wide range of different sized and shaped blades have been used over time and across the world, for various purposes including weeding or breaking up soil like a fork or spade. Garden hoe – so many to choose from The Chillington Heavy Duty Hoe or Digging Hoe is a garden tool for digging what could be described as 'virgin ground' or hard ground. This impressively robust tool is the mainstay of some agricultural workers and market gardeners, just as the garden spade is to the DIY gardener. In fact this tool is far superior and faster than your typical garden spade. There are quite simply too many styles of hoes to speak about and if I’m honest and went on about all the different sub genres of hoes, I would probably fall asleep telling you. But there are three main types of hoes worth knowing about as knowing how they work then means you know how to choose the right tool for the job. It can be quite fun teasing the labourer and watching him struggle with the wrong hoe from time to time though too. Types of hoe You get a whole lot of hoe for this price 😀 I’m talking the soil breaking, weeder incase your mind wandered then 🙂 Firstly, the price here is inexpensive even though the price is actually subjective to what you want to use the hoe for and as there are so many different styles of hoe I wanted to choose a decent option for the most common style of hoe.

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If you wish to return your item to Robert Dyas, you can do so by the following method: 1. Request a Collection via Robert Dyas Customer Services One downside of the chunky handle is that gardeners with dainty hand, particularly women, may find it a bit uncomfortable to use. Digging deeper and then breaking up the sod - this is where we would recommend getting a digging hoe with a heavier head. That allows the blade to get deep enough into the soil so as you can pull the sod up and then chop it using the blade. - Heavier digging hoes take a lot of physical effort There are four main types of garden hoes; Dutch, draw, stirrup and heart-shaped. Each varies slightly in shape and can, therefore, be helpful for different tasks. The long soft grip at the top of the handle provides a comfortable place to hold for gardeners of different heights.

handles are not easily available for the tools that are sold in garden centres and DIY superstores. The Head measures 215mm x 165mm and is about as heavy as you could use comfortably, weighing 1.1kg.The head itself is a dual design with a grub hoe on one side and two prongs on the other. Use the flat blade to dig up roots and loosen hard soil. Use the prongs to remove shallow weeds and aerate already loose soil.

In some countries these tools are known as digging azadas or heavy duty azadas. They are a superb tool partly because you can do so much varied work with them. For example besides cultivating land for vegetables and gardens they are in common everyday use for: Scottish Highlands & Islands postcodes: AB, FK, HS, IV, KA, KW, PA, PH, ZE, LL58-LL78, IM, TR, PO30-41 Dutch hoe: This is the most common garden hoe and is often the easiest to use. Used standing upright, a Dutch hoe has a sharp, wide and open blade that skims just below the surface of the soil to sever weeds from their roots. So whether you refer to them as a Chillington Heavy Duty Hoe, a Digging Hoe, Heavy Duty Azada or Digging Azadas here in Europe, they are certainly a "Great Tool" what ever their name is around the world.It's also a tool that can last a life time. I suppose we should call them "Grandpa's tools", because you will most likely find them in his garden shed. The handles are rough and ready and do the job in hand better than other modern tools.

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It really depends what you plan on using this hoe for as people use them for slightly different things. The handles just slot into the head and remain loose but you can make a better fit by soaking the handle end in water or better still Linseed oil. The hand hoe comes with a short removable handle that you can replace with a longer Gardena handle when you don’t want to bend or kneel when gardening.