dibbles

Hole-making garden tools

Dibbles are pointed tools used to make holes in soil for planting seeds, bulbs, or seedlings.

The word is the plural of dibble, also called a dibber.

To dibble is to plant using such a tool or to make holes in the ground: She dibbled holes for the onion sets along the row.

planting

seedlings

Newly germinated plants

  • sowingPlanting for cultivation
  • holesOpenings through material
  • spacingInterval arrangement between objects

rows · furrows · transplanting · bedding · propagation · nursery · germination · depth · soil · seeds

tool

trowel

Flat blade for spreading

  • hoeWeeding and tilling implement
  • spadeFlat-bladed digging implement
  • transplanterTool for relocating seedlings

cultivator · seeders · planters · awl · stake · fork · rake · weeder · mattock · pickaxe

gardening

horticulture

Cultivating plants systematically

plot · greenhouse · mulching · watering · weeding · harvesting · growing · tending · backyard · market-garden

agriculture

farming

Cultivating land for food

  • cropCultivated agricultural plants
  • fieldArea of specialty
  • tillageSoil preparation for planting

husbandry · agronomy · arable · harvest · cultivation · traditional · manual · subsistence · smallholder · peasant

Opposites
gardening tool function

dibblestampers

Interferes harmfully

shovels · plows · rollers · rototillers · rakes

scale of soil disturbance

dibblesexcavators

Machines for digging earth

backhoes · bulldozers · trenchers · plows · steam shovels

Family

dibble, dibbled, dibbling, dibbler

Familiarity
Top 1,000,000
Profile
Used worldwide · Timeless · Concrete · Rated G