Comments on: Wheel Hoe Day

By: Garden of Eatin » Weeding made…….. fun?

Garden of Eatin » Weeding made…….. fun? — Sun, 25 May 2008 19:29:13 +0000

[...] completely lose my garden then spray anything toxic, so after reading about Tiny Farm Blog’s wheeled hoe, I decided I’d give the cheaper and smaller scale one a try. This one is from Lowes, locally [...]

By: Robin

Robin — Thu, 25 Oct 2007 20:10:43 +0000

I love my wheel hoe. I can turn my 14 year old daughter loose in the 15′ x 30′ garden and 20 minutes later she’s done. It’s a huge labor saver.

By: Mike (tfb)

Mike (tfb) — Thu, 25 Oct 2007 18:41:36 +0000

Hey marci: It’s expensive and a luxury, or even unnecessary, for a smaller home garden, but if you’re microfarming, probably from a quarter acre (1,000 sq m) up , it pays for itself in no time. On my two acres or so, I can easily spend, say, 10 hours a week hand weeding, for at least 15 weeks, a total of 150 hours. If I save half that time, that’s 75 extra hours to harvest, plant more stuff, whatever, and I’ve gotta be worth at least $5 an hour. With those really conservative figures, that’s $375 in the first season! (Sorry for rolling out the arithmetic, but it often comes down to that! :) Plus, wheel hoeing is fun!

By: marci

marci — Thu, 25 Oct 2007 14:57:01 +0000

Looks/sounds wonderful, but three hundred bucks?
For a tiny farmer? Zowie!

By: Mike

Mike — Thu, 31 May 2007 06:23:57 +0000

This fine tool (even sweeter after day two!) is from Valley Oak, in California, USA. There are other wheel hoes available from the US, but too expensive to ship (export) to where I am. You can search the web for…”wheel hoe”. And there’s a whole wheel hoe system from Glaser, which I think is from Europe (Switzerland?). Valley Oak came recommended in Growing for Market, and I talked to toolmaker/farmer David and he’s cool!

By: Kevin

Kevin — Wed, 30 May 2007 19:53:04 +0000

Looks like a tool I could use too! Let us know where to get it.
Kevin

By: Sara

Sara — Wed, 30 May 2007 07:27:33 +0000

Where did you get this fabulous tool? - it looks like it will make work alot easier.
I thought the toolmakers note was great - made me chuckle.
Sara from farmingfriends