All potatoes in and rairng to get them heaped up which is fine because one of the lovely allotmenteers is going to let me use a contrapton that they have made. It is a triangle shape stuck on the end of a handle?. Obviously home made. My next door neighbour had the same and it was ideal but.... he left and I do miss him but was terrified that of course his hoe had gone too!! Fortunately I said to another lovely gentleman "Don't know what I shall do without Alan's hoe" Bless he said its ok you can use mine. Think there is definetley a space in the market for some one to make them because it makes life as easy as it could be. Or has anyone got any better ideas???
(http://www.cmsgardens.co.uk/images/jam20.jpg)
see http://www.cmsgardens.co.uk/wolf.htm
(http://www.get-digging.co.uk/pointed.GIF)
That Wolf ridger looks an advance on the old version.
But I find that with any of these type-designed things - including the wheel hoe ridger that I stupidly bought (going cheap!) - the soil has to be in perfect, untrodden, friable condition. Which it never is!!
So my money would go on the old-fashioned one below.
Quote from: tim on April 22, 2006, 18:27:22
the soil has to be in perfect, untrodden, friable condition. Which it never is!!
So true, with my clayey loam I only need a bit of dew and the surface cakes into a skin, that breaks off in pieces, like when snow has a hardened skin that breaks like a meringue.
There's an old type of hoe I've come across with a blade in the shape of an equilateral triangle at right angles to the shaft. Is that what you mean? I've been wondering what they were for.
This is where the Tiller comes in handy by removing two tines it furrows and fluffs the soil beautifully 8)
Robert yes it is equal sides. Thanks Tim and amphibean they look just the job!!
Draw hoes: kind of like the triangular number above but rectangular instead. A tad over £3.00 at B&Q (own brand).