You aren’t going to be doing any forceful chopping with this hoe but it feels sturdy and the stainless steel has been mirror polished, the blade is sharp and cuts through the soil and digs nicely. You can change your choices at any time by visiting Cookie preferences, as described in the Cookie notice. There are quite simply too many styles of hoes to speak about and if I’m honest and went on about all the different sub genres of hoes, I would probably fall asleep telling you. As I'm sure you figured out from reading this far, the answer is either "It depends" or "A couple different ones". This dutch hoe has been developed by Spear and Jackson with the help of the guys from the Kew Gardens horticultural team and in my mind the best overall garden hoe.

So as you go through my site you'll watch me document some of the professional garden installs I make as well as the major projects I take on at home. I tried to use large tools for key parts of the sculpture such as the big g-clamps and sickles in the body.But, I like to think that when someone sees a sculpture of mine that celebrates a wild creature they may take a moment to consider the beauty of that creature and think about why that animal needs to be conserved or its habitat preserved.

The blade is sharpened on both sides, with one side being slightly curved to provide a cutting edge.

These almost prehistoric looking birds nest on craggy shorelines and are often seen resting with outstretched wings. I don’t always make exciting big animals like some other artists (lots of wildlife artists paint lions, tigers and eagles) for me I find an ant or a lizard as interesting as a giraffe. It pretty much goes without saying that if you look after your tools you will get much longer use out of them. Obviously it’s even lighter when used with the Fiskars QuikFit Handle, which is the short handled option. The long handle of a garden hoe also makes it more comfortable to use than other handheld de-weeding tools because you can work standing up straight, rather than bent over.