The Entire Hoe Collection!

The Entire Hoe Collection!


American Standard - An Old Standby



Pointed American Hoe – Red, White and Blue



Plow Hoe, From Poland



The Winged Weeder – A Super Hero Hoe!



Grub Hoe, When You Need a Hardworking Hoe!



Collinear Hoe – Sharp!



Putter Hoe, But Not For Golf



Gooseneck Hoe Coming After You



Push Hoe – When You Are Tired of Pulling



Half Moon Hoe on a Foggy Morning



Rogue Hoe Dog - Sharp, with a nose for weeds!


Scuffle Hoe - For the indecisive - do you push it or pull it?


The Garden Hoe - A Gardener's Best Friend, and A Weed's Greatest Foe


Three Old Hoes


Stirrup Hoe - Cuts down weeds like a true champ!


A Ro-Ho Gardener, a unique hoeing machine!


A good American hoe, well-used, but still very useful.


The Cobrahead, no weed is safe from it's quick strike.


The Circlehoe, runs circles around weeds.


An old Asian hoe, reminds us of the timelessness of gardening and gardening tools.


The Deck Digger, because even decks need to be hoed on occasion.


This old grub hoe has a secret past!

The Let-Us Weeder... good in the lettuce patch and any patch!

The Hooke ‘n Crooke™, it's more than "just a hoe", it does everything!

The hoe●dag®. As handy a hoe as I've ever used. It digs, dugs, dags, and I love it!

The Fork Hoe, perfect for moving mulch and cultivating the hard-packed soil!

The Corona® Garden Hoe. Red-handled, professional quality, a good hoe for any garden.

The DeWit Pull Spork Hoe from Garden Tool Co. When you can't decide "fork" or "hoe", you can't go wrong with a spork hoe!

The Rake 'n Hoe. It's a hoe... and a rake!

The Corona oscillating hoe. It works on the push and the pull so you can weed twice as fast.

The Broot Garden Weeder. As tough a hoe as you'll find among stirrup type hoes.


From time to time, I get a few questions about my hoes, and a request or two to show them all in one post rather than in individual posts. Well, here you go, for all to see, my "hoe collection" on display.

Does anyone have a favorite hoe that isn't like one in my collection? If so, let me know, I'd love to hear about it!

Yes, I've got a few hoes on my "want" list, like any good collector who has a collection.

Yes, these are mostly working hoes. I do use them, some more than others.

Oh, and how did I get the hoes posed like they are? I used a "MacGregor Tool Butler" of course!

(This post last updated May 16, 2009, with my newest hoe and a few links to sources.)

Happy Hoeing, Everyone!

Variegated Phlox

I like variegated leaves, so naturally, I purchased Phlox paniculata "Creme de Menthe". However, sometimes variegated leaf plants send up shoots that aren't variegated. I need to get aggressive and cut out the green shoots and give the variegated side a chance to grow or soon I won't have a variegated phlox at all! The blooms are pink and white.

Lost Label - Sundrops?

I've lost the label for this plant, but I think it is a variety of sundrops, Oenothera, perhaps the species is fruticosa. The flowers are nice and bright and open all day long. The foliage is slightly variegated or mottled with gold.

Or, who knows, this could be something else completely. Like I said, I've lost the tag.

I do know this self sows a bit, but with some hoeing up in the spring, I can contain it to more or less this one clump, so I wouldn't be afraid to share a start of it with others.

If someone recognizes this as something else, please comment!

Japanese Tree Lilac

I once again have lilacs blooming. My Japanese Tree Lilac (Syringa reticulate 'Ivory Silk') is just beginning to bloom. It doesn't smell quite as heavily as some other lilacs, but if you get up close and smell the flowers, you can definitely tell they are lilacs.

I think this is a good small tree for the garden, and not planted nearly as much as it should be. This tree should only grow 15 - 20 feet tall and 10 -15 feet wide. Fall color isn't the showiest, but that's okay because I like the bloom, which occurs after most of the other spring flowering trees like pear trees, crabapples, and redbuds have finished blooming. The only other tree I can think of that is also blooming right now are the catalpas.

By having several varieties of lilacs, I now have lilacs blooming from late April through early June, with just a week or so at the end of May without a lilac in bloom. I just need to find a variety to fill that one week gap and I'll have almost 6 weeks with at least one species or another of lilac blooming! See this previous post for more info on lilacs.