scuffle hoe

Mr. Wilson pulled a scuffle hoe from the golf cart and showed how this was an essential tool for the older gardener.

Hoes resembling neither draw nor scuffle hoes include:

There are two main classes of agricultural hoe: draw hoes for shaping, and scuffle hoes for surface weed control.

A scuffle hoe is used to scrape the surface of the soil, and to loosen the top inch or so, and to cut the roots, remove, and disrupt the growth of weeds efficiently.

Many gardeners swear by a drip system, but Mr. Scanniello likes to work the soil with his scuffle hoe - and hoeing is hard to do between the many lines of a drip system.

He also pointed out that when the scuffle hoe was not used as an aid in getting up, it was a superb weed decapitator, one that doesn't stir up the soil and thus encourage other weed seeds to sprout.