garden hoe
Soil-chopping tool
A garden hoe is a long-handled tool with a flat metal blade set at a right angle, used for breaking up soil, weeding, and cultivating.
The user chops or scrapes the blade along the ground while standing upright, making it easier on the back than hand weeding.
Various specialized designs exist—stirrup hoes, warren hoes, Dutch hoes—but all share the basic form of blade perpendicular to handle.
She spent the morning with a garden hoe, clearing weeds from the vegetable beds.
- raised bedElevated planting structure
- weedsUnwanted wild plants
- weed controlEliminating unwanted vegetation
- soilGround matter for planting
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cultivate · blade · long handle · handle · furrow · till · vegetable patch · dirt · rows · chop · cultivator · vegetable · mulch · planting · breaking ground · wooden · rust · tool shed
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