Some of the posts, people having a pop at Monty, why? What’s the poor chap done, his crime is no other than seeking to bring his own experience of gardening to others and shedding some light on a subject that’s has a great diversity of opinion, which is well documented on this blog.
Marlon Kettle did you ever find out which knife it was? With 4 pages of answers I scrolled through them all thinking someone would have an answer but as often happens, the original question got lost in the mists of irrelevance
This is such an old thread I doubt the original poster will see your question. I suspect from the description in the first post that this tool may be a Hori Hori knife.
It's a multi-purpose traditional oriental tool. A combination of knife with a cutting / serated edge and a dished blade which allows it to be used for hand digging (ie as a trowel).
Some people swear it is almost the only hand tool of this type that they use. I'm quite tempted to ask for one for my birthday - but only because I've reached the stage in life where I have all the tools I actually need and enjoy trying out different versions of the same thing.
I think people particularly like this tool because it's a digger and a cutter in one and you can cut and saw through roots when you're planting in congested areas.
Quite a few YouTube videos about it and info in Google.
Heaven is ... sitting in the garden with a G&T and a cat while watching the sun go down
Hori Hori (mine is from Niwaki) is the best garden tool I have ever purchased. Once you start using it you can’t imagine gardening without it. Well I can’t anyways.
I first saw one in action at the Painswick Rococo Garden last summer. I asked the gardener about it and she said it was virtually the only tool she now uses for working in borders. If it's good enough for the pro's it's good enough for me and I got one. It really is a great piece of kit. The Swiss Army knife of the garden.
This morning I used it to pop in a few rocket plants in the raised bed and, on the way back to the potting shed, used it to hoick out some buttercups growing beside the lawn.
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Some of the posts, people having a pop at Monty, why? What’s the poor chap done, his crime is no other than seeking to bring his own experience of gardening to others and shedding some light on a subject that’s has a great diversity of opinion, which is well documented on this blog.
This is such an old thread I doubt the original poster will see your question. I suspect from the description in the first post that this tool may be a Hori Hori knife.
It's a multi-purpose traditional oriental tool. A combination of knife with a cutting / serated edge and a dished blade which allows it to be used for hand digging (ie as a trowel).
Some people swear it is almost the only hand tool of this type that they use. I'm quite tempted to ask for one for my birthday - but only because I've reached the stage in life where I have all the tools I actually need and enjoy trying out different versions of the same thing.
I think people particularly like this tool because it's a digger and a cutter in one and you can cut and saw through roots when you're planting in congested areas.
Quite a few YouTube videos about it and info in Google.
When you don't even know who's in the team
S.Yorkshire/Derbyshire border
This morning I used it to pop in a few rocket plants in the raised bed and, on the way back to the potting shed, used it to hoick out some buttercups growing beside the lawn.