BY LEE REICH Associated Press
June 24, 2021
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The wire weeder, left, and the winged weeder are two hoes that effectively and easily skim just beneath the soil surface to keep weeds in check. (Lee Reich via AP)
I’ll bet that in some corner of your toolshed or garage, an old hoe is leaning against a wall. A hoe that hasn’t seen use in a long, long time, having been replaced by, perhaps, a gasoline- or electric-powered tiller, chemical weed killers or mulches.
Hoeing is not much in vogue these days, perhaps because it seems to require what Charles Dudley Warner, in his 19th century classic “My Summer in the Garden,” said every gardener should have: “an iron back with a hinge in it.”