Azadas

[timmyc]

We bought a Chillington Hoe last week-end and it's great - hard work when your muscles aren't used to it - but fantastic for quick clearing of ground!

[timmyc]

[sallylockhart]

Hoorah! OH's azada was delivered at the weekend, and very nice and shiny it is too (he had to have his birthday present early as it didn't come particularly well disguised - only the blade was wrapped in cardboard and the address was written on that - as i said to the postie - ooooh - i wonder what that can be  ;D)

anyway, if it stops peeing it down / snowing / hailing any time soon i'll get him to have a go and let you know how it is.

meanwhile the neighbours might be thinking we are axe murderers as the azada is sitting in the living room!  :o

[Robert_Brenchley]

I wouldn't worry; Lizzie Borden took an axe to her parents not a hoe.

[sallylockhart]

Right - report on the azada

In a word - marvellous  ;D ;D ;D

OH dug over the potato bed in a miraculously short space of time and then asked what he could dig next! No lower back pain whatsoever  ;D

Only one slight problem - the thing is too b****y sharp! My nicely marked out string lines didn't last very long, and I keep finding slices of last years parsnips about the place!

Can't complain though.

[Robert_Brenchley]

That's what I find; the things go straight through roots. So I only use mine where there are no deep-rooted perennials to get out.But once the soil's reasonably clean, there's nothing like it.