hoeing
Breaking garden soil
Hoeing is using a hoe—a long-handled garden tool with a flat blade—to break up soil, remove weeds, or cultivate around plants.
The work is repetitive and tiring: I spent the morning hoeing between the rows of beans.
In slang, hoeing can mean engaging in promiscuous behavior, from the noun ho.
Part for gripping
- bladeFlat cutting edge
- sharpeningMaking more cutting
- wooden handleTimber grip for tools
- diggingRemoving earth below
Extremely physically demanding
- sweatMoisture from skin pores
- toilStrenuous, prolonged effort
- effortApplied energy toward goals
- muscleContractile body tissue
bending · stooping · calluses · blisters · fatigue · repetitive · manual work · fieldwork
Yellow flower, white puffball
- crabgrassInvasive lawn weed
- thistleSpiny flowering weed
- bindweedTwining parasitic weed
- purslaneSucculent edible weed
chickweed · pigweed · nutgrass · quackgrass · cultivation · chopping · scraping · uprooting
Cultivating soil for crops
- furrowingCutting narrow trenches
- cultivatingDeliberately developing or tending
- aeratingIntroducing gas into
- looseningReducing tightness or tension
turning · breaking · seedbed · soil preparation · ridging · hilling · mounding · bedding
Plot for edible plants
- flower bedsCultivated planting areas
- rowsSide-by-side sequences
- plantingPlacing seeds in earth
- seedlingsNewly germinated plants
compost · mulch · harvest · organic · kitchen garden · allotment · raised beds · market garden
handle
Part for gripping
- bladeFlat cutting edge
- sharpeningMaking more cutting
- wooden handleTimber grip for tools
backbreaking
Extremely physically demanding
muscle · bending · stooping · calluses · blisters · fatigue · repetitive · manual work · fieldwork · hand tool
dandelion
Yellow flower, white puffball
purslane · chickweed · pigweed · nutgrass · quackgrass · cultivation · chopping · scraping · uprooting · clearing
tilling
Cultivating soil for crops
- furrowingCutting narrow trenches
- cultivatingDeliberately developing or tending
- aeratingIntroducing gas into
loosening · turning · breaking · seedbed · soil preparation · ridging · hilling · mounding · bedding · trenching
vegetable garden
Plot for edible plants
- flower bedsCultivated planting areas
- rowsSide-by-side sequences
- plantingPlacing seeds in earth
seedlings · compost · mulch · harvest · organic · kitchen garden · allotment · raised beds · market garden · plot
- farm choresmilking cows, milking, egg gathering, mucking stalls, hay baling
- weed controlweed killer, herbicide, weeding, hand weeding, herbicides
- gardeninggardener, gardening, flowers, seeds, soil
- manual laborfarming, lifting, carrying, shoveling, loading
- outdoor choresmow, mowing, rake, raking, weed
- weedingthistles, crabgrass, hand weeding, herbicide, weed killer
hoeingplowing
Turning earth for crops
rototilling · tilling · harrowing · disking · hand weeding
hoeingharvesting
Gathering mature crops
reaping · planting · sowing · irrigating · fertilizing
hoeingresting
In a state of stillness
idling · relaxing · lounging · sitting idle · taking a break