Last updated on June 14th, 2020
I RECENTLY PURCHASED A HORI HORI KNIFE. It’s a Japanese gardening tool with a concave center (like a trowel), and a sharp, serrated edge. Would you like to see what this nifty gadget can do?
In Japanese, hori hori literally translates to “diggy-diggy.” And diggy-diggy it does. Results of recent trials:
First, I tested the tool on wild onions (Allium canadense — sometimes called “Onion Grass”) that dared to emerge in my Woodland Garden.
The pesky onions came up effortlessly, bulbs and all.
Next, I let the tool have its way with Burdock (Arctium minus).
The burdock came up without a hitch, and with its tap root fully intact.
And finally, I slipped Mr. Hori Hori beneath a dandelion. (I refuse to remove all of this Taraxacum officinale from my property — I use the leaves to make Clara’s Dandelion Salad.)
That dandelion gave up without a fight.
The knife is made of sturdy stainless steel. It cleans up easily after a day of digging. Heck, after brushing away soil with my gloved hand, I could see my reflection in the Hori Hori blade.
Note: In addition to its use as a weeding-tool, Hori Hori makes a fine mirror.
Hori Hori even comes with a nifty sheath that can be attached to your belt. When you think to wear one.
Wanna add a hori hori knife to your collection of garden tools? You can purchase one, just as I did, from Amazon.
Melissa says
I was just looking at these online today, but decided I didn’t have the $$ right now. Would LOVE to win this!!
Rose says
Hi, Kevin! I’d use the Hori Hori Knife in my vegetable garden mostly, but it’d probably find its way into my flower beds, as well.
Louise McPhillips says
Would love to have this to hack away at our Alabama kudzu and other sundry weeds!
Vicki says
I bought something that looks similar to this, but when I put it in the ground to get a dandelion….it bent at the handle!!! Definitely not a good deal! Pick me! Pick me!
Julia Vitale says
I sure could use one of them! You make it look easy!
Joan Blurton says
Oh I would love one of these. I have some self seeding flowers that are difficult to get to the root of. Plus enough dandelions to start a dandelion wine store….
Marian Williams says
Anything that will help get the dandylions out of my flower garden will be appreciated!
Betty says
He Hori Hori would come in quite useful battling the horsetail that came with all that soil I had delivered for raised beds! Grrrrrr
James says
This knife would really come in handy in my garden.
Colleen Hajek says
Pick me! Pick me! Will be used for weeding and gardening at our new home in Arkansas.
Ray says
What a great tool. We have cedar seedlings all over the place and that tool would make digging them up for transplanting a breeze.
Hilary Seiler says
I’m glad you don’t remove ALL of your dandelions! My goal is to fill the yard with them.
Zoe Williams says
love garden tools, I have favorites, think this would be one quickly
Billie says
It’s my favorite tool and I buy them all the time to share with both friends and family. Thanks Kevin!
Heather Schlerf says
Ok-areally good gardening friend of mine swears by this tool. I personally use thrift shopped knives and cheap masonry trowels from Home Depot,.
Deb Hill says
I know the Hori Hori knife would love the soil in TN. Come on down Hori Hori…. come to Tn.
Suzie Winslow-King says
Hi Kevin,
Absent Prosecco, I’d use my Hori Hori knife as I weeded my mountain garden, and sipped a DIRTY martini, which would be “vermouth-less”, in answer to the martini question!!! Thanks! 🙂
Janice Seigler says
I would love to win one of these to go with my favorite garden tools. I have two vegetable gardens and this would be a great big help to me!
Jeanio says
I would love one of these! And of I can’t win it, I’ll buy it. But I don’t know where!
Linda says
That is one nifty tool. I would use it to turn dirt, weed and plant. I would love to win!!! Thanks
Carol Durusau says
I’ve wanted one of those knives for a long time. I’ve only had my first martini ever in the last couple of weeks so I have no opinion on which is better. Don’t know why I never had one, just never came up.
Neal Klabunde says
I was just telling my wife that we could have used one of these to dig holes in our straw bale garden.
Paula says
Ooooooh……want it!!! Kevin + Hori Hori knife = Dead Dandelion. I would love to try this guy out!!! I would use it around the swingset first!!
Amy says
Hi Kevin – My Grandmother had one of these and it worked wonders! I would love to follow in her gardening footsteps 🙂
Ramona says
Would love to have the HORI HORI tool. Probably making digging weeds much easier. Last year I blistered the pa;m of my hand and I still have problems with the skin drying out and cracking where the blister was.
Laura Shenk says
I would love one of these!
Todd Desautels says
Honestly I prefer a good vodka martini extra dry, well shaken and dirty. Enjoyed of course after a productive day in the garden. I wonder how well the Hori Hori would work carving a pumpkin?
susan says
That Hori Hori knife is nothing like I have ever seen ! Looks like it can do some pretty good damage to dandelions. As well it would make life a little easier for working in my garden …….Yes Vermouth , and three olives in my Martini please ! 🙂
Charla says
Love your giveaways! This would help so much since I have the up keep of my yard and my grandmothers yard now too!
Katreader says
I need to do a lot of diggy diggy. As you know, I have some weeds in my raised beds. As for vermouth-just a tiny splash in vodka (not gin) and olives (not onions)! Although generally, I’ll just drink my vodka neat!
Ellen says
Looks like an awesome tool! The weeds in my garden have taken over in my beds…looks like this tool would be just the ticket to get rid of them, and I’m going to try your newspaper weed smothering trick too. Besides, one can never have too many garden tools 🙂 Love your home and garden inspirations, Kevin. Always a pleasure to read.
Karen Ennenga says
I have been trying to revive a once beautiful garden that was neglected for years. It is a constant battle against weeds and volunteer trees that birds planted. Your Hori Hori knife sounds like just the tool I need for the job!
LINDA N. says
THIS TOOL REALLY LOOKS LIKE A GREAT HELPER AGAINST THOSE BRUTAL WEEDS!
Sandie says
Newspaper, mulch & I’m still fighting weeds in my beautiful veggie garden. Sure could use some extra “muscle”
sarah says
Hey Kevin,
I’d use the Hori Hori to get rid of onion grass and burdock just like you…along with some pigweed that needs to get gone as well.
I don’t drink martinis 🙂
Sarah
Lynn says
I have one similar to this and it has become my FAVORITE tool EVER! I would love to share one with my Mom!
SANDY L. says
Wow – sure would love one of these to help me with my flower beds!
wendy says
this makes me want to weed….almost
Bronwyn Wells says
I never go anywhere without my hori hori
Nancy Morgan says
Hot diggidy dog…looks WONDERFUL and useful for unwanted weeds!
KATIE N. says
I WOULD REALLY APPRECIATE WINNING THIS – I;M REALLY HAVING TROUBLE WITH THE WEEDS AND THIS WOULD SEEM TO HELP A LOT!
Sandy Poole says
Would love to have this!!! With us nestled back in the woods I could put it to good use!!!!!
Esther says
My mom loves to work in the garden now that it’s getting warmer. She’s getting older though, so I would love any tool that makes it easier for my mom to do what she likes.
Jenn says
Hi Kevin… I can imagine that a martini would be fine without vermouth but never without the olive juice! 😉
A Hori Hori would be lovely tool for my garden if I were to win it in your random drawing! Thank you for the opportunity to try!
Brenda Johnson says
Wow does that look like a weed weapon!!!! Nice! (and no vermouth please… save that for cooking)
Cathy says
I need all the help I can get in my wicked garden! Then maybe a martini.
Cynthia Pastor says
I spent the evening in the garden, and I could have definitely used this tool! It is already on my wish list on Amazon!
Susan says
I’ve been looking for one of these all my life and did not know it! Thanks. For sharing.
Oh, an no vermouth, thank you very much!
Vicki says
I love booze in my food;) And I adore my garden, but NOT the weeds! This would be great to own!
Diane B. says
I’d love to sample a few martini’s, some with, some without vermouth, while I’m dancing the Hora-Hora as I wield my Hori-Hori!
Donna Dunbar says
This would be fantastic for my war on tumbleweeds and goathead, which both produce very painful thorns that end up in my feet, my dogs feet and have even flattened the tire to my wheelbarrow.
I am not a martini drinker, so no comment there.
Beth Thomerson says
This would come in so handy with all the invasive bittersweet I have to dig up every year! As to the martini question, a tiny touch of vermouth is great, but it must be a super, super dirty vodka martini with blue cheese stuffed olive. Heaven!
Theresa gredig says
I would love to win one of these; I always wanted one.
Cairn says
I would love to win one. I might even give it to my Japanese father-in-law who loves to garden.
Yvonne says
Kevin I would absolutely love to have the Hori Hori to go with my Japanese Hoe – I have the most horrible of weeds to deal with in my gardens – Horsetail! Thanks so much for the opportunity.
Marjean says
Excellent tool! I have so many tap-rooted weeds invading the garden each spring that I’ve worn out several dandelion diggers. This would be even better!
pennifer says
I would use a hori hori to continue my attempts to eradicate the horseradish I foolishly planted in a 4×8 raised bed. The horseradish was tasty last winter, but I am completely unable get rid of it now.
Jennifer Lawver says
This looks like the perfect tool for my landscape damaged hands, imagine being able to weed my own garden again!
Dennis R says
Hurry, hurry & pick me to win the Hori Hori. actually, as I told you last week, i just use a regular stainless steel flatware knife from our 1st utensil set bought in 1974.
Lydia Crespo says
What a tool… Would love to have it 🙂 Thinking up hundreds of uses for it.
Sarah wilson says
It looks like it would be great to cut garden fresh asparagus!
Susan says
I learn something new everyday! Thank you for teaching me about the Hori Hori tool.
I enjoy reading your blog…it is a delight!
Karen K says
I am gadget-attracted, and think this hori-hori might be almostt as useful as my 50 year old cape-cod weeder.
Rebecca J says
Reminds me of my grandma who was an expert Bonsai gardener. Would love to garden like her.
I prefer my martini with Kaluha. And cream. Hold the vermouth.
pauline says
Always looking for something different and to make my gardening a little easier for this senior from Niagara canada. Love your site and facebook.
gloria says
No Martinis, thanks. I’m a sweet tea drinking girl from the south, now gardening in w. NY. Would use the Hori Hori to impress my friends with my great taste in gardening tools.
Mark says
Great tool!
Janice Straight says
Kevin,
I have to say. I love the English Scone recipe you shared. I make them a couple of times a month. I also buy cottled cream from the local grocery story and can I just say, nmmy nmmy nmmom.
Karen says
Looks like the perfect gardening tool!
Nicole says
Oh I’d love to be lucky enough to win this! I’d definitely attack the dandelions that have deeply insinuated themselves too closely to my tulips for me to use any other green method (that I have available) to remove them.
Jessica says
Kevin! My favorite gardening guru who saved my chives! I diggy diggy you!
Donna says
I would love one of these for gardening. My grandpa used to use something similar but I hadn’t seen it in years before his passing. Love your site, always something useful or interesting. Take care.
Alissa Morris-Alexander says
Thanks for the online demonstration of your Hori Hori knife. Looks like a fantastic garden tool. Use it well! 🙂
Mary Ellen Hern says
Dandelions! Which are in my shade garden, amidst my daffs, around the cut leaf Japanese maple, and in the hyacinth garden. Please choose me and empower me! How about chocolate martinis or pomegranate martinis? Thank you!
Elaine Donges says
I could use a new garden tool!
Michele Lawrenson says
Have wanted one of these for awhile now! Have a million uses for it in my home garden.
Emilie says
Like you site! Thanks.
Jackie Lehr says
Without!
Deanne says
This little gem would really come in handy and suspect it would be by daily sidekick in the love and care of my meticulously groomed one acre garden. I’d love to have one!
Beth says
I hope I win. This would be an awesome tool for gardening!
Julie says
Oh I’d love this! My yard backs up top the wild so trying to keep them separated isn’t easy, this toll could really help me out.
Lisa Grandstaff says
I think this would be a great addition to anyone’s potting bench or gardening arsenal. I would love to be the lucky one, but I know whoever gets it will give it a good home.
Cathy F says
this tool would be so useful……..re, the martini – there are so many drinks people call ‘martinis’ these days, I think they’ve forgotten about vermouth. I think if they serve the mishmash in the classic glass, they call it a martini.
Linda W says
Weeds, weeds, go away! Hori-Hori, come to stay!
Lanie says
What a great tool! Thank you for sharing!
cindy says
So many uses…so little time!
Robert Meehan says
I’ve been putting a sharp edge on my trowel for a long time. No serration but even shovels, hoes, they all work better with an edge to ’em. But free is free so I’ll take a shot at the lil Hori Hori. Just the name of it makes it worth having. 😉
PattyM says
Oh what I could do with a Hori Hori! The Dandelions would SHRINK away in fear!!!
Lorraine says
That looks like just what I need for the burdock, the English ivy, the dandelions, the Japanese bamboo, and the list goes on and on…If I don’t win, I think I’ll have to get one!
Joan says
Wild onions are the plague of my shade garden! Hori-hori needed!!!
gina says
I didn’t even know I could get rid of onion grass! It’s so stubborn I’ve just been trying to learn to love it. =)
Sue Wein says
The Hori Hori looks so cool
It could become my favorite tool…
In the garden, in the wood
I’d like to win one…if only I could
Robin says
Boy, I could use one of those on some really stubborn burdock. It sure looks like it would do the trick.
anita says
OMG. The perfect weapon in the Eternal War Against Weeds.
And BTW, Sue Wein, love your “pome”.
Chris says
I’d use it to tackle all the burdock and bindweed that have moved into my borders!
Vicki says
OMG, to have one tool that tackles all of the various weeds I face in my rather expansive garden beds wold be just fantastic! I could have used it yesterday when I was racing against time to get as much done as possible in one hour… I hope my luck will be in this week!
And I do not drink martinis, just wine, but my martini-loving spouse believes that the right amount of vermouth is to wave the vermouth bottle over the top of the glass….
Laura W says
I love weeding, and this tool will make me unstoppable!
Kathleen says
Kevin my husband is old school and loves, loves, loves dandelion salad. He will stop on the side of the road and pick them if he see’s them. Of course we have a nice size veggie garden and several flower beds that need lots of weeding so this tool may not go back into it’s handy case that often. But I promise to take great care of it if we are to win such an awesome tool!
Gladys says
Ooooo….would love a tool like that. Many weeds to contend with on my 2 acres.
Vodka Martinis……LOVE EM…nice and dirty with just a tiny bit of vermouth.
Linda Anderson says
Wow! Never even knew such an awesome tool existed!
Rebekka says
Oooo! Would be a nice edition to my gardengadgets. And always with vermouth – and olives… Always olives
Suzanne Gravelle says
I have weeds that could succumb to the efforts of this knife. Love the translation!
Sandra C says
Kevin,
Your winter sowing advice was terrific, and I had success with most of my seeds! Now, I have to tackle lots of weeds, hopefully with a Hori-hori.
Tammy says
Kevin, I’ve been reading about these in a number of places lately and they sound like just terrific tools! Thanks for making one available to a lucky commenter.
tammy says
What a neat little tool!!!
Kimberly B says
Awesome!
Susan says
Martini’s are definitely better without the vermouth, but definitely need the olive (however, a lack of olive won’t kill the maritini). Love this article about the hori hori knife. I would help a lot in my garden, getting rid of some pesky weeds that I have a hard time getting out. I can also use it as a planting implement for bulbs and small plants that a trowel is really just a bit big for.
Debbie Yates says
Thanks for the info. I’ve been looking at these for a while. Debbie
Susan says
I also would love to have one. I have been using my significant other’s 3′ long giant diesel mechanic’s screw driver and a hammer to pound it into the ground to remove burdock, thistle and other nuisance plants. This would be a definite improvement 🙂 .
Lauren says
This would be a great addition to my garden tools!
Sharon Barnes says
I would put this in my little garden caddy to use whenever it was needed
Meg says
I’ve been looking at that tool for a long time but never swooned enough to buy it. I use my old scuba dive knife to get a roots but it isn’t concave. This just might be better in my rocky Massachusetts soil.
Bethe says
This tool just might get that nutgrass out of my raised beds!
Karen Driscoll Diorio says
Gardening and Martini’s or Martini’s and Gardening…..Either way is a Good thing…..
Honor says
Would love a tool that makes it possible to remove burdock!
Tara says
As a brand new gardener, I’d love to have this tool to make the more menial and less enjoyable part of the hobby easier!!
And gin martini–no vermouth.
Annie B says
That sounds like a great tool. All you fellow Midwesterners stay safe.
Allison K says
It sounds like something I need to add to my garden arsenal! Over the weekend I scoured the stores around here, and can’t find any tool like this.
Also, I prefer the classic: 6 parts gin, 1 part vermouth. Otherwise it is just a glass of gin, not a martini! (And puh-LEEZ, not vodka! Gah!!!)
Tammy says
I would love to win this!! I have a ton of weeds to use it on!
Jennie says
Wild onions are taking over my yard. If I don’t win this Hori Hori, I’m buying one next week.
constantine says
With vermouth! Stir carefully with a hori hori.
Kate says
Ooh I’ve always wanted a hori hori knife and now you’ve really convinced me I need one!
Diane from Boston says
I would use this knife on the dreaded Japanese knotweed. Fighting Japanese weeds with a Japanese tool!
Donna says
This would be a perfect present for my son!! He has been a wonderful help with our yard. He has talked of a tool like this.
Julie Dacus says
I had an aluminum weed digger that was part of a matching set. Whilst digging dandelions from the lawn it snapped in two. Also, my husband speaks Japanese so perhaps I could convince him to use it.
Amy says
Oh – I love hori hori knives! My herbalist friend has one and loves it. She used it to weed my flower bed one time and it was really quick. I have a plethora of plants in my backyard that I’d rather not be there – so this would be quite handy.
Martini? I have lovely memories of my grandparents making them with gin and a splash of dry vermouth with a twist of lemon. We would drink them while sitting on their little lakefront patio before dinner. There were always cheese and crackers, or some little appetizer as well. It is probably one of my favorite memories of my grandparents living in upstate NY.
Diane Laura says
I usually don”t enter contests but this is something I could really use. Ilove the way you show us how everything you do works out.
mike says
My sister gave me a Hori Hori some time ago and I use it constantly…my tool of choice for any weeding and planting tasks that don’t require a shovel. Incredibly durable, thoughtfully engineered, and ergonomically designed. I enjoy saying the name of the tool when people inquire…”It’s a WHAT?!” Glad you finally took my sister’s advice and bought one, Kevin, but you may be remiss in giving your extra away…I have a fear of misplacing mine and not finding it.
Kelly M says
Looks like this crazy little tool would make me ‘the master of disaster’ for all the weeds popping up in my garden …… I have a vision in my mind kind of like the bugs screaming “RAID !!” in the tv commercial but it’s weeds in my garden screaming “Hori Hori”.
Nora says
I would use the tool for just about anything that does not belong in my garden…including but not limited to the grubs and slugs.
Dianna says
Leave it to the Japanese….they have been gardening for years and years before
we have in America. Someone who has been gardening for that long would make
up a tool that only a gardener can covet from one country to another. Could really
put that tool to good use.
carmen says
I would like to wreak havoc on my ivy with one of these! Btw, thanks for your inspiring blog, I feel like such a slacker when I see your lovely gardens.
Nancy H. says
My perennial beds and I spent some quality time together yesterday…this looks like it would do the job so well! This is going on my wish list!
Rosiland Ball says
I would love to put one of these hori hori knives to work in my garden!
Debbie says
This looks like a real threat to the weeds in my garden! Thanks for the chance to win!
Adam says
Looks like a pretty sweet tool.
Mary Lou in Central NY says
I would be very happy happy to win a hori hori tool! Thank you for buying a second tool to give away!
Linda says
I would love one!
Michael says
I would dig the heck out of some weeds with this thing!
Suzanne says
Thanks for giving us a chance to learn about and possibly have the chance to try new things.
Erin Brady says
I just love a tool that makes weeding easier. And even more, I love having drinks in the garden. I put tables and chairs in my vegetable garden and love to drink wine out there. Soo relaxing … Oh yeah we were talking about weeding…..
Sandy says
Hmm…the Hori Hori Tool sure looks like it does a better job than what I’m using (I think it’s a Dandelion Weeder – that’s what I can tell from looking it up on the internet). It does a good job. But Boy Oh Boy, that Hori Hori Tool sure looks like it can cover quite a bit more ground, and that would serve me greatly.
My Dandelion weeder isn’t really used for Dandelions ( I like those in salads too!) but it is used for other weeds. Since it is smaller/thinner I also use it to aerate the soil in some of my plant containers.
Thank you for the opportunity to enter this drawing.
What a great website! So much info –
Thanks again!
M Campbell says
I love that it translates to Diggy Diggy! Oh and I usually go vermouth.
Michelle A. says
That tool would be perfect for my dandelion harvesting as well as getting rid of some pesky Canada thistle.
Louise Brouillette says
I’d use it to get out some stubborn weeds–it looks amazing!
BTW, since you mentioned burdock–my friend and I were walking and we came upon what we thought was a large patch of what we thought was rhubarb. I broke off a stalk and tasted it–it wasn’t rhubarb! I looked it up when I got home and found out it was burdock.
Thanks for the great giveaway!
Shirley says
Nice little gadget. I can see that it would be very handy.
P Miranda says
Weeds that would be banished with the hori hori (love that name): wild onion, plantain, burdock, thistle, and an unidentified tall weed that is taking over my part-shade side garden. Thanks for the generous giveaway! I love your blog.
badger gardener says
The martini is the one cocktail I’ve never developed a taste for thanks to a bad gin experience in my younger years that still hangs in my memory. Never tried a vodka martini, so I can’t offer an opinion on w/ or w/o vermouth. I did recently purchase vermouth for your chicken and tarragon cream recipe so perhaps I’ll need to have a taste test.
Laurene Stopford says
Who wouldn’t want one of those cool thingies?!!
Melodie says
I told you you’d like the Hori Hori!
Yogini55 says
Always great to hear of a new tool for the arsenal! Also have found the gloves you are wearing in the photo to be some of my favorites!
Judy says
This is just the tool I need! I’d love to have one!
Diane says
With vermouth (and lemon zest 🙂 no olive)
Cheryl says
This is a great tool. Still trying to pull and dig up those weeds.
Walter says
I have one of these that looks almost exactly like yours. It is great. My gardens are 95% woodland and this tool is great for planting in the root dense woods!!! Give it to someone who has a woodland garden! Or give it to me and I’ll give it to someone I know who has one!!!
A word of caution though to all. Both edges of mine are razor sharp. I forgot this important fact and ended up at the ER getting stitches in the nuckle of my left index finger. Came periliously close to cutting a tendon. Whew! As a result, my wife has banned me from using sharp objects on Sunday afternoons!!! I won’t go in to the gory details of how it happened but all is well and I still use by Hori Hori extensively.
Behold says
What a great looking tool! I’m not a martini person; I’m more of a whisky/whiskey person and would agree gardening and cocktails do go together.
John C. says
A Classic Martini should be mostly Gin and then show it the cork of a Martini bottle; olive or Silverskin onion optional
Tiffany says
Do people garden without a cocktail? Hmm. Not me. I bet that knife would be excellent to harvest asparagus also!
Sharon says
I would love to have a shiny hori hori knife like that. The one I got is stealthy black, but doesn’t have the depth markings that yours does.
Maria says
Wow, this tool would make my weeding so much easier. Would love to own one. Would love to win one.
Sherry says
Just discovered your site. I could definately use this on our farm. Am making rhubarb tart tomorrow.
Lori says
Would love it cause I too have those pesky wild onions to get out of my yard and flower beds…….so go a head and pick me.
Barbara says
Anything to ease the drudgery of weeding would be a welcome addition to the garden!
Heidi Haas says
Would love to win this tool! I have so MANY dandilions – and I don’t want them all…
Susi says
Just the perfect thing to murder all those little-becoming-big weeds that chose to smile in the face of Preen!
Durelle says
Oh I would love the hori hori! The right tools make the work so much easier!
christina says
Oh,I would love this tool!
Janet Hatcher says
I would love me a hori hori as I know I could POP out a ton of various weeds. I love Clara too! Thanks, Kevin!
Margaret Garstin says
The martini would certainly make the weed digging with the new knife more fun – with a splash please!
David says
There is an army of dandelions attacking my yard from all sides. The Hori Hori will bring balance to the natural beauty of my yard.
Jonna says
These are fantastic for everything. My friend uses his for planting and harvesting as well!
Frani W. says
I need this!!!! I have plenty of weeds like everybody does who gardens, but I have a gazillion Green Briars coming up this year due the the wonderful rainy spring. The Hori Hori would be perfect for getting them while they are small. If I can’t win, please tell me where to purchase a Hori Hori. Thanks for giveaway!
Kelly says
Martina’s are better with vermouth, if the vermouth is of a good quality. Otherwise I will just have my gin on ice, maybe with a splash of lime, maybe not.
I am planting my first ever garden this year. I am going to need all the help I can get, and I love all kinds of tools. I have a feeling this would be a very handy tool to have in my “just started” collection.
Kelly says
Oops, typo 🙁 Martini
Christy says
This Hori Hori gadget looks like the perfect inspiration I need to get out there and tackle the weeds until I throw my back out.
Pam says
I learned about the fabulous Hori Hori knife in Master Gardener Class this past winter and have been lusting for one ever since. If I won this one I would strap that baby to my waist and show it off at the next neighborhood cocktail party. I think the boys would be impressed.
Di says
I’ve been looking for one of these for awhile ~ I’ve read where they are great and now you confirmed it. Vermouth? My mart? Bombay Sapphire and I slowly pass the vermouth bottle over it ~ but NEVER forget the olives!
Patti P. says
Anything to help me with the pesky weeds would be appreciated! Thank you for all of your inspirational posts!!!
Marie says
No vermouth necessary. Just take the vodka from the freezer (no sense diluting it!), and serve. Add olives for a more savory flavor, or some limoncello for sweetness. Or hey, Kevin, try this summer treat: Sweet Tea Vodka with Limoncello martinis. :o)
Leda says
I just bought a house with a garden completely overrun with weeds. This would be a life saver!
p.s. Gin and Vermouth, always
Jayne says
I just came in from weeding my garden, and saw your blog. What a great tool. Thank you, I love reading your garden news, and going on your garden tours. Lovely !
Eliza J says
That is one wild looking garden tool! I have been pulling such nasty weeds with deep tap roots out of my garden….that looks like it would make the job much easier than hacking away at them. Waiting for the rain to go away and things to dry up in New England. I had hoped to get “all” of my garden in this weekend, but that looks doubtful. Thanks for the opportunity to enter this awesome contest.
Stephanie says
Oh my goodness what a beautiful weed assassinator! I think I need this. =)
Martha says
I love tools! I love gardening tools, kitchen tools, woodworking tools, hand tools, power tools–and really really need one of these!
Clare says
I would use this a a gift for mother. She is getting on and would appreciate still being able to garden.
Susan in MI says
WOW! This looks like one super garden tool! Would LOVE to win one.
Lisa G says
This would be an AMAZING gift for my green-thumbed hubby! Even though he has the green thumb, I’m the one who loves to weed, so I might use it more than him…which would make it an even BETTER gift, right?!! 🙂
Stephanie says
Looks like a great gardening tool and I’d love to win it!
Bob Barr says
Hendricks Gin, no vermouth, shaken and served dirty. Hori Hori worky worky when removing plants from my earth boxes.
Susan says
Is a martini better with or without vermouth? ummm, ahhhhh…neither? I’ll stick with wine haha.
Maureen says
I could definitely use this tool as I am looking at a weeds in my yard and my sister’s as well….she has a new yard that has not been kept properly and I am the family gardener!
Ann Marie B. says
Another use of dandelions? Roast the root and make tea out of it. It’s supposed to be good for liver detoxification. You may already know this but I wanted to inform you just in case you didn’t.
Rebecca says
I am the proud owner of a hori hori knife that I purchased from Smith and Hawken several years ago. It is my trusty garden tool. Might suggest as it weathers that you paint the handle, as the wood ages to the color of dirt – making it hard to find in your garden when you drop it!
Carol S says
I have a woodland garden for a front yard…the hori-hori would be great for planting amidst the roots as well as weeding…I think I have 4,000 Japanese maple seedlings! I do pot some up and give them away…
Sharon says
I love to work in my flower beds and one of these would help.
Cyd says
I would love the Hori-Hori tool to remove plants that keep invading my flowerbeds uninvited. Also dandelions in my lawn.
(p.s. I have a nephew, his wife, and two little children {one a baby born just this week} living in Japan. Does that give me a little advantage?)
Angela says
I would love this- I just gave myself a giant blister by using my trowel to rescue the strawberry patch from dandelions (I was absentmindedly glove-less of course).
Jeanne says
Love to have this tool for my dandelion removal.
kriss says
Must work much better than my knife!! Right?
Keila says
Hi Kevin,
The Hori Hori would be a wonderful tool for my vegetable garden! I hope you have a wonderful Memorial Day weekend!
Barb says
Hi Kevin
Looks like an awesome tool to make work easier!
Barb
Linda Stone says
What a wonderful tool! Absolutely something I could use ;o) Got the best-ever long-handled shovel from qvc.com which forms into a sharp point, with sharp edges and a folded down top edge perfect for pushing downward with one foot. Cost a small fortune, but was so worth every penny. This looks like the perfect complement.
Norma says
WOULD love one of those!!!! And…..wine and gardening certainly go together……but then again…..other things that go with wine…….reading, house keeping, cooking……Mmmmm…most things go with wine, lol
HAPPY MEMORIAL DAY WEEKEND!!!!!
gnomepete says
Similar to Wilcox trowels, but thinner and sharper it seems.
Sandy says
Great idea don’t have to pull out the snips!!
Patricia Kovalchuk says
I would love to try this tool. I love to garden and anything that would make things easier would be great.
Patti says
Oh my aching back..This would certainly help me remove all of the old invasive herbs in my medicinal garden…
Robin Ann says
I would LOVE this gardening tool to get rid of those pesky weeds in my garden.
linda says
happy Memorial Day! i would love to win this knife! it would replace a much used trowel i have!
thank you for offering this giveaway!!
^)^ linda
krystal says
It looks awesome it would look even better in my gardening bag 🙂
V Joanne Heyob. says
A woman can never have enough gardening tools.
Karen Johnson says
This looks like it would do a number of things that need to get done in my garden and lawn.
Donna says
Hurray! Hurray! I hope I win!!!
Paula Riley says
Yes! I would love to win this, I would help my husband with all the yard work he does with this great tool!
Thanks ,
Paula
Peggy says
This knife sure would help dig up those weeds!
ThinkerBelle says
Gardens and Cocktails- yes & yes! You will love this article on how to “grow” your own cocktails! http://www.organicgardening.com/cook/garden-party
Jennifer says
Who knew such a lovely tool existed?!? Now I do! You’ll think me uncivilized but I don’t like martini’s unless they are fruit flavored. 🙂
Laura says
I weed, therefore I am.
Deborah says
It looks like a tool that would come in very handy in my yard. ME VS. the WEEDS>>>
Blessing!
Clarice Lofgran says
What a great tool! I’d love to win it! thanks for the chance !
Margie says
I have had one for at least 15 years – Mother’s Day present from my husband – where ever I go in the garden it goes with me. We had seen one when we spent a day a Heronswood on Bainbridge Island and he decided I needed one.
Don’t pick me.
Marg Buck says
I would use this at the community garden.
Jan Naher-Snowden says
I recently scrounged up cedar planks from a neighbors old fence that they have torn down. I am itching to get my raised beds constructed, filled and operational. What a great reward this tool would be for all the hard work that I have ahead of me! Here’s hoping!
Valerie C. says
I have nothing like this right now. I’d use it often 🙂
sandi says
How thoughtful to think of your audience and offer a gift – great marketing!
What gardener couldn’t use one of these. I’m a new fan of your website and I’m really enjoying your content – thank you so much for all you do.
Happy when I’m in the garden with Mother Nature!
Barbara Chaisson says
Oh, I would so love one of these. I have constant weed upkeep in my horse pastures….we live on 3 acres…..so, I am not talking about huge pastures……just keeping them weed free would be great. There is some sort of weed that has these painful little thorns that hurt for hours. No matter how careful I think I am…..sooner or later I grab onto one to pull it and suffer for hours afterward. This tool would be a huge blessing……..
Lynda says
A Martini is best when you simply wave the bottle of Vermouth over the glass of Vodka.
Nancy W says
Great giveaway, this would help me with the millions of dandelions we have in our yard!
Linda King Pruitt says
How wonderful would it be to win this tool and be able to think of you each time I used it, shouting, “Hori hori!! Diggy-diggy! Take that you weed!
terri akin says
Never had one, and it’s time to weed the roses, now getting ready for their second southern Callifornia bloom!
Sandra Leonard says
I used to live in Japan and so many tools there that are now available here! Very clever one, this.
Dee says
A swirl of vermouth around the glass followed by ice cold gin & a sizable green olive……..absolute heaven.
As for that fabulous garden tool – well, it looks like that puppy would come in handy just about everywhere in my gardens. it’s a keeper!
I so enjoy and love your website.
Gaye M says
This looks like a great tool – and I have (too) many unwanted guests in my flower beds!
debra says
looks like a cool tool. I wonder if it works for lefties…
Laura says
Just wave the vermouth over that martini – I want dust on those olives!!
Oh, and the hori hori would be a great addition to our soon-to-be-homesteading toolbox.
Revenda` says
This looks like a very handy tool to have in the garden.
Ret says
I insist on doing all of my own gardening as large as my yard is, however, I’m getting older and the roots seem to be getting stronger. I actually weed with a kitchen serated knife to help.. This item is just what I need!
Heather says
I’m attempting to fix up the yard this year and this knife sure would help with the weeds and maple seedlings all over the place. The drawing is on my birthday! What a great birthday gift this would be!
Cosette says
Wow, neato, that looks a lot more effective than a cape cod tool. I always use a shovel which mixes up the dirt and mulch and looks a little messy and invites more weed germination.
Have a great day Kevin!
Pam says
If I win, I will use it on burdock, dandelions, and Japanese knotweed (the latter being a particularly fitting use, I think).
Chris Ellingson says
I’d love one of these knives to help keep my garden weed free 🙂
alisa says
Looks like this would make my gardening easier !
Vanina says
Looks like a great tool, I love the name!
Sharon says
I know the Japanese are wonderful gardeners, efficient and sure. Would love to win this tool! Thanks for offering this drawing!
Sandra Allen says
Hi Kevin,
I like any tool that makes work easier. I use a inexpensive knife to cut back flowers that finished blooming. Your tool looks like a gardener invented it!!!!!
Have a nice weekend,
Sandra
Diane says
I love this and would use it often! It seems we get more weeds every year and I won’t use chemicals in my gardens.
Candace says
A gardener never has enough tools!
KokHeong McNaughton says
I’d use the knife for harvesting my horseradish roots. Never done it before so it would be a first.
Jeanne Dwyer says
Yet another great tool to make gardening easier. Thanks, Kevin!
Jane says
Anything to make gardening easier. The older I get, the harder it gets. Still enjoyable.
Nola Stowe says
Thanks for the recipes and tips! You’ve inspired me to try african violets as a house plant and other things! Thanks for the contest!
Karen Moore says
Just one? I have 52 acres to dig in. OK, It’s a horse farm. The actual gardens comprise about 5 ares. Looks like a wonderful tool.
Happy Digging!
Andrew Ksalow says
Me likey the Hori Hori.
Barbara says
Ooh. What a nifty looking tool! It’s like a one stop shopping eradicator for the garden and beyond. Since kneeling this year is a no no due to having both knees replaced in 11 months, this would be a weeding lifesaver.
Denise says
This would be a perfect present for my husband for father’s day!!!
Ronnie Bush says
Kevin,
I detest weeding. This tool would sure help me get it done with less effort!
Thank you for your wonderful and informative newsletter!
RB
Deb Steiner says
I love your articles; a little bit of everything tossed in with gardening gems! I have not seen the Hori Hori knife before; it could inspire me to start a tranquility garden with fei shung incorporated into it…who knows:)
Victoria says
I would love to see this knife make short work of the cane grass that plagues my yard. !!
Karin says
Yes, want to diggy diggy too
Vicki says
I dig good garden tools!! I am now digging greens (AKA weeds) to feed my brand new hens in their brand-new-to-me chicken coop becase they cannot free-range until they have been here for three days.
Shirley says
A hori hori huh?? Ok..toss me into the mix.. maybe I’ll get lucky this time?? You are a hoot !
Vicki says
I dig well-made garden tools!
Carol M says
Looks like a great gardening tool..& yes to vermouth…
Chris Scott says
It looks like the Hori Hori would be handy in dealing with the hard ground and tight spaces around my mobile home. Would love to try it !
Janice says
What a cool knife! Nothing more frustrating than trying to “chop” a root with a regular trowel when trying to work in the garden. Thanks for the opportunity to win a Hori Hori.
Diane K says
The way YOU rave about this tool makes me certain it would be of enormous help to me in my vegetable and perennial gardens. There is a continuous mess in my yard from previous owners and as I tackle the existing and slowly add new, thisvHori Hori would help me get through the tough soilbin the mountains a little easier. I am notva Martini girl but maybe a campari, rose or iced cold beer would be great.
Cathy Evans says
My dandelions are totally out of control! I would love one of these.
Rosemary says
Am ready to start getting rid of all those weeds!!!!! (at least the ones that have escaped)
Diane K says
I am better at gardening than with my ipad!
juanita says
Wine, margaritas and hori hori – who could ask for anything more.
Lois E. says
Here I am, soon to be 80 years old and haven’t heard or seen this tool.
Sure would help in gardening today, as some of those weeds just won’t
let go. Enjoy your web site so much. Read every word. Thanks for
all your information.
KZ says
Always thought this would be a great addition to my garden basket. The weeds would take one look at it and submit.
Ann says
My weeds need the Hori Hori …. pick us, pick us …. pleeze
Rosemarie says
I would love to win this tool! I really enjoy your web site with the pictures of your home and also thank you for the wonderful recipes.
Sherry Graf says
I would love to win the Hori Hori Knife. It would help me in our garden in the beautiful Sierra Nevada foothills of California! Have a wonderful weekend everyone!
Susan says
Oh my goodness, I could keep Mr. Hori Hori busy for weeks. And if nothing else, the name is just fun to say!
Barbara says
I want one! I want one!
Kimmer says
oh do I have some weeds that would hate to see this tool coming!
Misty Huffman says
Wow, lots of comments. I really enjoy the great information and tips that you share. I need a hori hori for the plantain that grows in my garden. I think it would be great for getting the entire root out.
Stephanie says
This is the most useful too ever. My mom has one that I am continually stealing. It’s uses are preactically endless in the kitchen garden, weeding, planting, harvesting, and it never bends like those useless pesky trowels do in our clay soil!
Linda says
My husband and I have been lucky enough to obtain a large plot in a community garden here in Oregon.
This first year is a learning lesson and with about 75 large plots it is large and there seems to be a continual problem with garlic, be it wild or not. It seems to come back every year and it is everywhere in the garden area. It is one of the most difficult things I have ever tried to remove and I we are being told if you don’t get all of the root, it will just continue to spread.
this Hori Hori would be a miracle tool for us.
Would love to WIN this amazing tool.
Fingers are Crossed!
Thank you,
Linda
Celine says
Yes, please!
Marie says
The Hori Hori would be a huge asset !! I love your website because it reminds me of the 1825 yr old house of my childhood and gardening in New England. Can’t wait to use your newspaper mulch come fall/winter before our rainy season. Wondering how well it works amending our Santa Barbara clay soil? The joy of cooking has become a thing of the past because of disabilities…but…love your efforts :).
Thanks Kevin, you are a joy!!!
Susan M. says
If I’m fortunate enough to win the Hori Hori, I will diggy diggy through the maze of cedar hedge roots in my garden, planting and transplanting my perennials! Thanks for the chance.
Anna Lapping says
I was just thinking today that I need a “diggy-diggy” thing to get after the weeds in my garden. I would love to win it.
Madfortulips says
Kevin,
Love your posts so much..from baking,gardening,entertaining, house renovation to how to serve a smashing cocktail!
Annie says
I don’t like martinis, but I have learned I should always grow Kentucky Colonel mint for mint juleps – and I’m from the Northwest!
I’ve always wanted a Hori Hori, but never splurged on one.
Deborah West says
I love garden tools! Thanks Kevin!
Lourdes Fay says
That looks like a VERY useful tool! I could use something like that so my husband can rid our yard of weeds!! Notice I volunteered him. tee hee
Leslie Thistle says
My daughter needs this!!
Nadira says
The Hori Hori tool will be just up my street. The dandelions and other weeds in my garden would not know what hit them.
Teal Lockard says
What an interesting tool! I prefer vodka dirty martinis…
Linda Moore says
This looks like a terrific tool. I could use this in and around my garden. Hope that I win.
Judy Hines says
That tool looks so nifty!
Linda Sago says
this certainly would make my alley cleaning much quicker and easier! need something sharp and sturdy!
Joanie N. says
Love to be in the garden… Planting, weeding, watering or just
enjoying the bounty of nature. A vodka martini with a small
splash of vermouth and a pick with an onion is delicious.
Benny Salter says
The HORI HORI is just what I need to dig in hard CLAY CLAY in my yard.
Judy Hines says
Looks like a wonderful tool! Gotta have one. Love your site, Kevin.
Bill says
diggy-diggy, sippy-sippy
Ouida Lampert says
I bet it would be awesome at dividing perennials, too.
Carole68 says
Well, count me in (if you can send to France). We have lots of dandelion and wild potentilla with carrot shaped roots, so it would definitely come in handy… plus I love all things Japanese.
As for Martini, I’m sorry but I’m no good in this matter.
Sherry says
what is your secret to actually sitting in your garden and enjoying it? I tend to only see what work is left so it is hard to sit and soak it all in:)
Doris T says
This looks great! This would be great with both vegetable and flower garden. Speaking of which – I am headed outside! Thanks for sharing
Lynne Hammes says
All the better to dig up multiples and share!
Brenda says
I would absolutely LOVE one!!!! Living on 5 acres with lots of landscaping to care for, the knife would be fabulous!! Thank you for the opportunity.
Anne says
Looks like a great tool for gardening. I am a complete novice at gardening especially in a difficult area like Northern Nevada with altitude and a dry climate as challenges!
Donna says
I would drink an extremely dirty martini, with Cinzano, and donate the Hori as an auction item for our Pan Mass Challenge fundraiser on Cape Cod. We will Hori the hell out of cancer. THANKS!
Jan says
Dig, Dig, away….
tery bigley says
It would be great to dig herbal roots for drying too!
Have to get one of those!
Matt says
Would love to have this.. Starting a Master Gardners class soon.
Nancy Oden says
Kevin – How come I just got this email and there are already 285 comments ahead of mine? When did this actually go out?
Well, it’s still cool and rainy on the North Coast of Maine, but the Dandelions have been blooming for a couple of weeks and I’m eating lots of them in salads. Admiring their flowers, too.
Most people work hard to kill Japanese Knotweed, aka False Bamboo, but it’s actually FREE FOOD!
Google Recipes for Japanese Knotweed and see what you get. I like it steamed over brown rice. Tastes very like lemon-y asparagus.
I brought a bowl of it over to my foodie restaurant-owning friends and asked them what they though it was. They guessed Fiddleheads or Asparagus with Lemon. And they liked it.
It contains Resveratol, which is what’s good for you in wine and grapes. So, there, FREE FOOD IS GOOD!
Cheryl says
I most definitely need this tool. I’m thinking it would not only help in my gardens, but I can think of several kitchen uses also–coring large tomatoes, de-seeding butternut and acorn squash, scooping out seeds from bell peppers, hollowing out loaves of bread for dip–
Rachel Ginther says
Love your newsletter and site, thanks for all the great info and recipes! Love Hori Hori knives, can’t possibly have enough! Thank you!
Elizabeth says
#1 no Vermouth means no martini! Sorry that’s just a fact
#2 I would love this knife! Any tool that would help with the weeding chore
Would be GREAT!
Hope you enjoy your memorial weekend! Cold, windy and rainy here in Maine 🙂
Deena says
I am pretty convinced I live in the center of Weedville, USA. Any weed eliminating tool has become a must have for me. Thank you – love all of your great info and ideas.
Dianna says
would love to win this for my stubborn thistles
Joanne Yates says
spring flower flurry
life and death play out the game
come! hori-hori
My humble attempt at a holiday haiku. Happy grdening…<3
Joanne Lattrell says
My garden could really use a “diggy-diggy” with all the weeds that just sprung up, thanks to all this rain.This looks like a very useful tool. I’ll pass on the Martini and have a Margarita instead.
Please pick me, love reading your blog
A wet mountain gardener in VT.
Bev says
Looks like a great tool to own!
Patrice says
It’s a passion I am trying to develop. The right tools make every endeavor better. Just a whiff of vermouth with my martini please.
JANE D says
With advanced arthritis, this tool would do the trick on the many “volunteers” on my little acre of paradise….Arthritis is limiting, but will power wins out!
Riley says
You should be proud with the number of comments posted. I do not believe it is because we all would like to win. Your post is a refreshing read that I enjoy immensely. As for the knife, I only have one arm that works so a multipurpose tool like this would be great. Now for the martini, If you like them dry, hold the filled chilled glass next to you lips and softly whisper, “vermouth.”
Patricia Nugent says
I would really love this.
Nancy Carr says
My gardening tools are in sad shape. This would be perfect. Thank you.
Judy says
looks like a tool i should have for these deep rooted weeds!!
Carol says
This looks like a useful addition to garden tools.
Sandy says
Kevin,
Hello from Skippack, PA! I’ve been busy getting the property ready for a backyard graduation party and would put this tool to use getting rid of all the weeds in a grove of trees (so that it would look somewhat like your woodland area). You are quite an inspiration -I love your website from the gardening tips to recipes!
Anne says
How about using saki instead of vermouth in a vodka martini and garnish with a bit of cucumber. A hori hori in one hand and a saki martini in the other, I could get a lot of weeding done!
Barb Ewer says
Father’s Day gift for my Master Gardener Hubby! Wish me luck!
Pat G. says
Happy Spring Kevin!
I just had a blood orange martini made with Ventura Blood Orange (a seasonal thing) Limoncello. Try it if you can get your hands on Blood Orange Limoncello. Matini-dirty and no vermouth.
I have seen the Hori Hori demonstrated. It is a wonderful tool.
Karen says
I vote for martini’s WITH vermouth. Almost anything is better with Vermouth. Except maybe gardening with a diggy-diggy. That sounds amazing in itself.
If I win, I will celebrate with martini and toast you from the belly of my garden, which is awesome because I found out about your blog in early spring and did some winter sowing and now I have plants up the wazoo!!!
Love the recipes too. Food, drink and gardens–Can’t think of a better threesome!
Thanks!
.
Jan says
Looks like such a handy tool…would love to have one in my garden tool box!
Laura Graham says
Your gardens look like a bit of heaven to me. Thanks for the journey. Oh, the beautiful blooms, pool, and statuary. I would love a hari hari cultivator. I have many weeds to go and plants to plant before my garden looks well tended like yours.
Happy Memorial Day to you and yours.
Susan Rutherford says
Hi Kevin,
Love to see what is going in your garden! I also really enjoy the plant take! And the recipes are marvelous. Thanks so much!
Delores Short says
I would love to have a new friend in my garden like a Hori Hori knife –what fun !!
Arianna says
This year, my garden is not just for “snacks” but for food for my family. We/ve been hit by the sequester……HARD. So, the only one working in the household is my son and that only part time. Taking notes from my mom about Victory gardens and what to eat that is “wild” around here. Dandelions, burdock and wild onions have all made salads at my house this year. Thank you for your help in making my garden a success.
Sheree Ashapa says
I would just look at the diggy-diggy while I drank a Vodka Martini (shaken, not stirred) WITH vermouth!
Sharon Rea says
I had a landscaper plant Aspens in 3 spots around my house. I LOVE the trees, the shimmering leaves and the sound they make in the wind, which we get PLENTY of here in Ames, Iowa. What I do NOT love, is all the little saplings that shoot up EVERYWHERE around the trees. They have shallow roots, and their root fingers spread and spread. So… most of my “weeding-time” has to do with these little mini trees. Would LOVE to try the Diggy Diggy on them!
Grazyna says
This looks like a great tool. We have lots of dandelions and I leave them in the grass but don’t want them in my flower and vegetable garden. Every Sunday I’m waiting for your e-mail. Thanks.
D. Roberts says
I love to dig in the dirt and get my hands dirty!
Bambi Lynn Lewis says
whisper Vermouth
Anne says
You ROCK, Kevin! Thanks for sharing.
Bill Criswell says
I would love this for the women at a shelter I volunteer at to get rid of nutgrass.
Mercy says
I’d use the Hori Hori on the burdock in my raised plating beds. those pesky suckers just won’t give up! I’m not much of a drinker, not because I’m anti-alcohol, I just get drunk WAY too easy, so I don’t think I’m the right person to ask about martinis.
Happy Memorial Day!
Barbara says
The weeds are stronger than plastic and rocks which were put down to keep the weeds away. Not working. This 79 year old lady would like a better way to stomp the weeds!
Lin says
Would love to use this on an unknown weed that has a little white star-shaped flower and bulbous root that seems to multiply every year no matter that I think I have gotten all of the bulbs out (hundreds) of the garden bed. Would make the job so much easier!
Love your site, Kevin!
Jody says
I could use a new one. The one I have is well-used and bent. A god one is pricey.
Marty says
My goodness this looks like something rite up my alley…..could have used it today!
Theresa Posluszny says
Were to start… weeds in the lawn, wandering jasmine ground cover vine, I bet the serrated edge would do a great job on those vines. So many places I could use it. To dig up and relocate the blue iris that are popping up in all the wrong spots around the little fountain/pond I have. I really don’t think the “diggy-diggy” would leave my hand. Hopeful/wishful it finds a home with me 🙂
(ps… Have a safe and happy holiday!)
Donna Roper says
This tool would be so handy for dividing asparagus ferns that out-grew their hanging baskets while under the house. These ferns I’ve overwintered for the last 4-years, and the birds ENJOY feasting on the bright red berries they produce in early Spring!!
Bev Hastings says
I would love this knife as I have a replacement shoulder and not a lot of strength. Never had a martini! Love your weBsite and look forward to seeing it and hope to try a lot of recipes.
Nikki G says
Love your blog, love your recipes, love your gardens, would love a Hori Hori tool!
Thanks for a chance to own one!
Lynnie says
B| LIKY LIKY B|
Diane says
Every female gardener needs one of these nifty tools. After digging weeds or planting seedlings, we can wipe it off and look to see if we have dirt smeared on our faces. It looks to be sharp and strong and would be nice for arms and hands that are not as strong as they once were. Thanks for sharing with us.
Don Beaver says
A DREAM TOOL FOR SURE!!!
Nan Ranger says
What a grand tool. Have heard of the Hori-Hori but never have known how to use it. Thanks for the instructions. I have many dandelions that I could dig up (if I win the drawing)……and send to Hilary who wants to carpet her lawn with dandelions.
Enjoying your web site!
Nikki says
Love the Hori Hori gardening tool. What a perfect gift not to mention what a perfect gardening tool it is!!!
Elizabeth says
I have tons of wild onions this year and this would be very helpful.
Jess H says
Perfect for my rampant dandelions that are taking over my lawn!
Diane Koeneke says
I’m new to gardening. I think I would find the Hori Hori Tool to dig out my brussel sprout stalks from last year! Thank you for the opportunity!
Earl says
this old man needs all the help he can get in the yard. would love to have this tool
Mary Howe says
I would love to win this knife, I have it on my wish list with popular seed company. Would really be cool to win
Jean says
I’m ready to plant my winter seeded perennials tomorrow. Thanks for the advice.
Deborah says
This tool has been on my list for some time. I battle dandelions and burdock annually.
Ian Lindsay says
Gin Martini WITH vermouth, thank you very much. And lemon twist. Nothing better after an evening pulling weeds!
Nancy Carr says
My gardening tools are so sad. This would be great.
Pat T says
Dandelions, creeping Charlie….so many weeds, so little time!
Julie Piehn says
I would use this to help keep my gardens beautiful for my guests to enjoy. Thank you for the opportunity to win this incredible tool 🙂
MIchelle H. says
We could really use this as we are starting up a vegetable garden.
Ava lansbery says
Shaken not stirred..
Would love a new weapon against weeds.
Susan says
Sadly, I no longer have a garden but…I like to go to a friend’s house & help with her. I’ll be house/cat sitting there next month & wouldn’t I love to present this to her? Oh yes…
PS: You are funny. But probably you hear this a lot? And often?
xo
madeleine says
I think this would work well for dividing plants.
Leslie Stewart says
Just thinking of buying one for my friend’s birthday
Marti Meyer says
Looks like such a useful tool. I leave all dandylions and rabbitbrush for my bees, but I’m sure I could use it on lots of other tough guys.
Karen says
One of these days, I will win!!! I am always into new and interesting garden tools!
Kathleen brown says
I would use this in my flower garden that has been overtaken by weeds!
Sharon Curley says
Would help me dig up all the wild geranium’s in my garden, they really spread fast. They have pretty flowers but one plant can take out your whole garden. lol
Cindy says
One of my master gardener friends swears by this tool–it’s her very favorite.
jim tinker says
that would be a great addition to my line up of tools for working in a wicking bed……
great for planting and plant removal
thanks for the opportunity
jim
Kathy Davis says
I would love this tool to dig out that nasty grass that keeps finding its way into my vegetable and flower garden. As to the Martini, I’ll mix it which ever way you like it, as I will be busy sipping my vodka paralizer 🙂 🙂
Vaiva says
I would diggy diggy a Hori Hori! Martini sans vermouth please… Thanks!
Roylyn parks says
Definitely for wild violets in my shady yard.!
JaneGrace says
I moved to New Zealand and took my Hori Hori knife. I had miner for about 10 years and it finally fell apart and I can’t seem to get them here. BTW I live in Kerikeri (NZ) which means dig dig!!
Priscilla Cuddy says
I will enjoy using the hori hori as I work to gain certification as “urban farmer.”
Tawna says
I would love to win and try it out! I have a lot of weeds and a yard that needs a makeover!
Nancy says
Definitely looks like a great tool to have. Count me in for the drawing!
Mary says
I love your e-mails and everyone needs a tool like this one.
Anita says
I would use Hori Hori as a Samurai warrior and Seppuku the roots of invasive morning glory.
Jean says
Love your website! And yes, I would love to win the hori hori tool!
Becky Harper says
Dandelions you say. I have a field of those across the street from us and I fight with them in my yard every year. So far I have filled2 trash bags full. Yep I would love one of those.
David says
I have two yards to clear weeds and more weeds than you can imagine. I would need a small army of hora hora tools…but I’d be glad to start with one…:)
Mary says
I love your e-mails. Everyone needs a Hori Hori.
Connie Leinen says
I bet that gizmo would be a great ice pick. (I always bring out the vodka, shaker and vermouth, but it’s only decorator vermouth – because a proper vignette needs at least 3 elements.)
David says
Oops…I meant hori hori….can’t spell!
Jeanne says
Hooray! Hori Hori. Weeds no mori worri.
Annie Hogsett says
Ah, I write crime fiction. I went, “Hmmm. Hori Hori Knife. Hmmmm…..”
But what really sparked my imagination was the remains of that wild onion. I have zillions of those.
Cindy Cassady says
Plants grow very well in Florida. This would be wonderful to use here. We have some
Vines that would be a real fight otherwise!
susan says
I would love to win the Hori Hori. I would definately come in handy getting rid of the pesky weeds in my garden. My martinis are usually made with Vodka so haven’t tried Vermouth. I guess I am a novice martini drinker. 🙂
Sandra Sather says
Oh the Cockle burrs this could dig. Thanks for a great site.
Jeanne in Toledo says
I could indeed use this tool – I have a great garden even though I live in an apartment – but there is horrid creeping ground cover from the other neighbors that encroaches. Not ok.
As for the martini question…could we just agree that a martini is gin and/or vermouth – and I’ll even stretch it to VODKA and/or vermouth – but all these froufrou nightmares that are served in a martini glass are NOT martinis? That’d make me happy!
bobbye samdahl says
another Proseco, please and thank you!
Mary says
A Hori Hori was my go-to tool until I misplaced it in a tangle of St. John’s Wart I was attempting to demolish. Mine was the carbon steel knife and when I found it a couple of years later buried in the dirt, it was rusted beyond use. That won’t happen with the stainless one and I’d sure love to have a replacement. It worked wonders scraping off moss layers in the garden beds and planting small bulbs. It can be a pretty wicked tool, so for whoever wins it – please take care while drinking that Martini!
myriam says
That tool would certainly be very helpful in the Georgia clay…
Beth says
I would wear that hori hori with pride on my gardening belt!! That would complete any outfit!
Sue says
Would love to try a new tool! Either way, thanks for telling me about it!
Gayle says
I would use it to dig up dandelions also but I would save the root, dry it and make tea. Great for energizing.
Lola says
I too could use this tool as I’m semi-handicapped. I hate those pesky weeds that I can’t get up without the root. Love your blog.
Kevin says
This would be handy in the garden as we have a lot of volunteer mulberry’s with LONG tap roots that are awful to pull…
Linda Jensen says
Sure could use this one!!
Bonnie Schlagel says
This would sure be helpful.
Jude says
Smilax vine – need I say more? Shiraz is my martini…
blake says
Hi Kevin,
Your gardens look great. Happy full moon. Always looking to add to my gardening collection of good, and useful tools
Lisa Counts says
That would be perfect to dig that pesky, as yet unidentified, vine in my flower beds!
Jill says
Would like to try the Hori Hori on my invasive plants- love your garden tour!
Joyce Spindler says
It looks like something that would work extremely well in summer baked red clay for some of the many tap rooted weeds I have.
Jacqueline N says
Our entire yard is hosta gardens and we have so many volunteer red Bud trees coming up. They have terribly long tap roots and this would be wonderful to use on them.
Lisa Horner says
I would love to have one! It is a beautiful tool!!
Shawnee says
Hendricks and cucumber~need I say more about gardening and imbibing?!
linda says
July/August are usually hot & dry in Arkansas, this would help get the weeds out! Thanks!
Ava says
I could have used it today transplanting 4 o’clocks, but the fun with weeds will continue all summer. Hope I win!
Patty Ghering says
I would love one of these for the weeds in my garden!
Pernette W. Behrendt says
i am 83 years old and that little instrument looks like the very thing i need in order to do my weeding job much faster and easier! Thanks for bring it to my attention.
Sheri Svyerson says
We need to have another button besides “like”—maybe “love” cause I LUV your website. Have tried many of the recipes and always get rave reviews. Hoping I win this tool:)
Jackson says
I have two words for you…”STAR THISTLE”, aka the Devil’s spawn. It is the most wicked weed I have ever encountered. diggy diggy me!
Cindy says
I need this..yesterday !! For help with pulling WEEDS!! 🙁
Pamela Zenk says
Love anything to help omit weeds.
Collie says
Would love to have another—our puppy chewed the wooden handle on ours! Great tool.
Charlotte MacD. says
Hi Kevin, This hori-hori looks like it would be good for a zillion uses in the garden. I love the idea of using it as a mirror.
I hope I win !
Sure do enjoy your blog.
Sunny Alexander-Stitz says
This looks like an amazing all around garden tool. I love your website and your insight 😉
Vickie says
I often wish I had a way to hook a garden tool onto my pocket to have handy as I walk around my gardens. This tool looks great.
Evelyn says
Saw these used in Japan by the gardeners!
Maggie Lyczak says
You are an awesome man! i learn so much from you!
shannon says
Hori Hori appears tp worky worky well!
I have used a similiar cool Tool AT zhe college where I earned a Hort. tec degree. It had two additional Function: a Sharp divit for cuting chord/twine & a serated edge for Division.
Kay Crichton says
Pick me, pick me! All my tools are ancient and gross.
Esther Robinson says
I was watching this tool in action at the Denver Botanic Gardens demonstration and thought it would be a great addition to my collection of tools that aren’t quiet doing the job. Sure would like to win it.
Barbara Ann says
This really looks helpful for vegetable, herb and flower garden.
Mary Jouver says
Love the information on your site! I get some great tips, recipes and ideas! I have lots of weeds and gardening projects that this tool would help me with.
John Stark says
Starting a new garden, I should have lots of weeds to try a hori hori on.
Beverly, zone 6 eastern PA says
I have a similar, but less sharp-looking, knife I use to slice up Zebra Grass rootballs, Switch Grass rootballs, Hosta divisions and Dutch Iris clumps. All have that woody root mass which is a real challenge to conquer.
My stand-in garden knife is one my husband removed from a parolee in the 80’s. He used to be a State Parole Agent. You never know where a good tool might come from! (This illegal knife has a secret compartment on the end to hide contraband.)
Anne says
This would be a GREAT companion tool for the Dig EZ pick and trowel that I just ordered!
Cecile says
I tried your recipe for chive pesto. Zing! So why would I like a diggy diggy? Partly because I have a sick left hand and my right hand is getting overworked with all the compensating I’m doing. And to be a role model for my neighbor on one side who’s fixated in blasting chemicals into the soil to have the perfect toxic lawn. But mostly because I dig digging out stuff from the ground after I get out the ample supply of Mother of all Rocks, up here in shale country in the NE US. I could also stick it (sheathed) in my leather tool belt or carry around in my garden tools bucket.
Chuck says
Just discovered this tool helping a friend at her garden. Works great. I really want one now.
Erika says
Burdock. Definitely burdock. Bane of my existence.
Charlotte Orth says
This looks like a nifty tool to have at my disposal! I have lots of thistles and hog weeds to dig out!
Sharon Coleman says
Even lasagna gardens have a few weeds, and I have beds that I have not yet lasagna-ed. so I would love love love to have a hori hori!
Sharon Conlon says
I’ve had a hori hori for a few years & love it. I would love to win one for my garden helper so he could have his own & not borrow mine when I need it. This is a great helper on weeds & any other roots that are tough to get out. Thank you for this opportunity
Jan midden says
Everyone needs a Hori Hori tool…
Hope says
The weeds have been terrible this year.
The only good thing is my goats love the weeds I pull from the garden and toss into their pasture.
Molly says
Hi Kevin
A few weeks ago while working towards my Master Gardener hours, one of the other
volunteers had one of these and it worked so great at getting out even sod. Thanks for
all your amazing recipes and ideas. Love love your home, if I lived in the area, I would beg
for a tour, but since I don’t, I will be satisfied (hmmm) with your pictures and comments.
Have a great and safe holiday weekend.
Martha says
This looks like a great weeder and It would really be put to good use in my yard this year. I have more weeds than usual and some of the weeds are really tough.
Jan says
I just finished trying to root out some burdock that hid from me. This would have been a useful tool! (grey goose, dirty, no vermouth)
Betsy says
I have only recently began to receive your newsletter and have so enjoyed it. Thank you. And I certainly DO think that cocktails and gardening go together. My favorite place to enjoy one or two (or three).
Carol says
I would love to use this good looking tool…..it would make those weeds easier to extract and be done with! I would love it!
Lina curry says
I would love to win this knife for my flower beds thank you
Carolyn Contois says
Kevin…you find the coolest stuff!
Nell says
Great looking tool. Wish I had one. Where can I buy it ? I like that it gets the tap root. Thanks for a chance to win and the tour of your GREAT GARDEN. LOVED IT.
Theresa B. says
I would love to use this in my new garden!!
Prem says
My sturdy gardening companion for last 5 years. I am never without it in the garden.
Renee G says
My weeds are crossing their leaves that I don’t win this.
Roxann says
My sister has one of these knives and LOVES it! I thought she was giving me one for my birthday…I got a knife sharpener instead:( BUT…the knife sharpener WILL sharpen my garden tools:)
Cindy Marino says
Kevin! Where was this knife last weekend when I was attacking the crazy weeds in my flower beds??? I LOVE the number markings on it, great for planting bulbs! What a find that was and this would be a great addition to my tool shed.
Lisa b says
Would love to win this!
Beverly says
Looks very useful for planting and weeding.
Patricia says
Dandelions and to turn dirt. Without vermouth and with extra olives;)
Jeanne says
Geeeeez xxxx there are a lot of comments!
dona alexis says
You have burdock. I have loosestrife. After 4 years of digging it up in my garden – try like 8 hrs. each Spring, I may have gotten a handle on it….. There is less big, long roots this time around then any other time.
Whew!!!
BTW: I would love to know: How do you do it all? I only have like 4000 SF, 1/2 is grass. And I can never have enough time to get the veggie and flower gardens up to shape . HOW do you do it?
Linda says
I’d sure like a Hori Hori tool like you’ve got to work on my unwelcome ‘weeds’ and such! You made fast work of getting rid of your ‘pesky plants’!
Lee says
I appreciate you so much. The knife would be great for uprooting just about anything or………
Your site is a delight to use since one can go back and find anything missed or to revisit. thanks for all your work. Lee
Skye says
This would be a Holy Grail item at my house. Lantana bushes self propogate all over the property & have tenacious roots. This would give me a distinct advantage.
Thanks so much for the chance to win.
Debbie says
If you don’t use vermouth, you should definitely serve it dirty with olives! It looks like a phenomenal garden tool.
Wonda Guidry says
This is a clever lil tool. I would love to have one of these.
Glenda Shaeffer says
I received this wonderful garden tool from my sister and would love to win one to give to my daughter for her 50th birthday which is in June. She used mine while visiting me and raved about it.
judit says
I would love to use this knife to get rid of wild onions
Judith
Bob says
That looks life a nifty tool to get rid of the wild violets, which I’ve been battling with for the past 4 years or so.
As for martini’s, with this cool rainy weather, I prefer a straight bourbon/ Whiskey, or a little nip of Benedictine 🙂
Rip says
cool gadget !!!
Angela says
Hello Kevin..I now live in Florida and enjoy gardening. This tool would be a welcomed addition to the average things that I own. P.S. I relocated to Florida 2 years ago from Princeton N.J. I brought one, just one plant with me from N.J. It’s an African Violet that I have had for years and wouldn’t part with it. I followed your directions on how to make “violet babies”..guess what? Two days ago I finally see the “baby” popping through….so excited!!!!! Thank you!
John Root says
I do not have one of these, and wow, would it ever be useful here There are so many dandelions and burdock that got away on my last year.
I just got home from work and was greated with a lovely single malt by my wife with a smile on her face. I wonder what she wants. 😉 Maybe to dig out dandelions? By the look on her face, I think not.
Sarah White says
this sounds like something I could use!
Bonnie Shileny says
Hope everyone is honoring our Veterans that gave their lives for our freedoms! Beautiful to be outside around all our flowers and plants!
Michele R says
I’m a new reader…pick me””
Wendy says
Wow! Lots and lots of comments to enter the giveaway. I also would use the hori hori to dig taprooted weeds from my lawn and gardens.
Katherine says
I could use it to tackle the crabgrass in my yard!
Lynd says
Love your website! Checking every morning for enough chive flowers to make chive blossom vinagerette.
Vicki says
Love your blog & would love to win that hori hori tool. Kevin, I also wanted you say your home is gorgeous. Looking forward to many more glimpses inside
Vicki
Nina Hedrick says
I just came in from weeding and your weeding pictures convinced me I need that Hori Hori knife!
Betty says
I really want to be out in the yard saying ‘diggy-diggy’ !
Liza says
Hori Hori – here you come 🙂
Great job, Kevin! Lovely to be part of your Garden for the House.
L.
Kris says
If it works on burdock and dandelions, I NEED one!! And just in time for my Birthday!!
LAVON EBLEN says
A Hori Hori is may favorite tool. If I could keep only one tool this would be it. Would certainly put another one to use.
Kathy says
The tool would be useful to you in transplanting a lot of small sunflower plants that were volunteers from last year.
A martini better without vermouth- how about martini with no alcohol.
Linda B says
Yes, to martini’s with vermouth! Yes, to needing a hori hori tool!
June says
What a clever tool to share! Thank you for putting my name in the hat for the drawing!
Penny says
Wow! That would be sweet! Thanks!
Paulette says
Recently discovered your website and love it. I used your newspaper weeding technique this weekend but had to stop as I ran out of newspaper. Will continue as we get more. This tool would be great for random weeds. Thank you for sharing your expertise and thinking of your readers.
Jean says
After many, many years of apt. living i finally have a cute small house with a yard as big as a football field. And i might say more weeds than grass.other than expert help which i could use from you. Ha Ha it looks like this knife would help alot. If i win i’ll excuse you from coming to Ga. to help with my yard work. and if i don’t win i’ll still love you and look forward to your e mails each week. As my grandchildren call me i can also be you Gran Jean.
Linda says
The Hori Hori would certainly be used in our gardens. No poisons here for the love of our dogs and the planet. The brunch casseroles was delicious!
linda says
This tool just might keep me from yanking on those weeds and leaving part of the roots only to regrow in a major assault. I use a trowel and weeding tool, but having a cutting edge would give me the edge against my own lazy methods.
Kris Fox says
Love this!! i want one!!!
Michelle in NYC says
I tenda little church garden around the corner and have been wanting one of these knives for a year now. But the modest funds always get used up on other essentials. I’d love to wing. Meanwhile I’ll be making Scape Pesto and thinking of you.
Nancy VanDyke says
This sure would help me in my huge flowerbed. It has gotten away from me.
Kara Udwary says
Well, I would definitely use the “Diggy Diggy” in my weed, oops, I mean flower beds!! In addition, since I don’t care for martinis (gasp!), I would go for a lovely fruity daiquiri! Yum!
Sherrill says
Kevin, that Hori Hori would be so helpful planting my sweet garden once we get settled from our move…can’t wait! Thanks for having this opportunity! S…
Anne Johnson says
Hope I’m the lucky winner of this drawing to attack invasive bullies (I was just pulling dandelions while hiking on state lands where fabulous wildflowers are in full on bloom right now). Love your blog–in fact, I’m about to whip up some chive pesto and a galette with cherries and rhubarb, Both yummy recipes have become favs.
Merrilee says
I look forward to receiving A Garden for the House every Sunday and I would love to have a Hori Hori knife to use in my garden. Thanks!
Sandi says
I would enjoy digging weeds and planting seedlings with it.
Sandy says
You always make my Sunday. Although I did look at your recipe for the brunch earlier in the week. Thank you for enriching my life!
Rachel Clark says
Hi Kevin,
The hori-hori knife is my favorite tool. Some how I have managed to lose two of them, so if I win yours, I will paint the handle neon yellow before even taking it out to the garden. Anyone who has never used one will be thrilled with this lovely gift!
Sally Cataldo says
I would love a little digging tool like that! Have never seen anything like it. Dandalions and burmuda grass o my, that would work at those nasty weeds!!! Yes, Yes, drinks in the garden for sure!!!!
Karen Johnson says
My cousin has one and I loved it!!!
Donna says
I could use this to attack the dandelions in my lawn…..Thanks..
Connie Hopkins says
Wow, that looks great. I would love to give it a try!
Joan says
I sure could use the hori hori garden tool for my lawn, I was just out there struggling to get the whole dandelion weed with the root, most of the time with no success. I’m sure this tool will surely solve the problem
malinda says
Help with getting out stubborn weeds would be wonderful!
Rebecca Madon says
I would love one!!! Every digging tool I buy I break..
Jeri says
Due to health reasons I was unable to do the clean up last Spring, this year I need all the extra help I can get . Your featured TOOL would help me so very much. I look forward to your blog each week. Love it.
Sandy Douglass Abalos says
I’d like to hori-hori up all the sprouts of Poison Ivy that I see coming up in my yard. Being seriously allergic to it, I bet I could clean the stainless steel blade easily to remove the urushiol oils before stowing in the sturdy sheath. Yes, please!
Joy says
Without vermouth, it’s just gin.
stephanie says
Wow lotsa posts! I had one similar to this before and loved it!
Michelle A. says
I’ve been looking at these since someone I know mentioned that this was their favorite and most used hand tool for the garden.
Jayne Chandler says
I’d like to use the Hori Hori on these stubborn blackberry roots that plague my new border garden before I can plant any shrubs. Any suggestions for a surefire way to get rid of wild blackberry roots that are intent on taking over my yard??
Stephanie Bardin says
Would love to try this baby in my Fl yard.
Judy Ryan says
It would be a nifty tool to use around my garden. Thanks for thinking of your blog followers.JR
Cath says
Good morning
I would love this…i have just started a vege and herb garden..well only herbs at the mo…LOL…but i have osteo-arthritis in my hands and a tool like this would make life so much easier for me.
my plan is to go totally raw food grown by me, not only for health reasons but also because then i know exactly what is going into my food…no nasty chemicals or GM foods.
but it is a slow process when you have more bad hand days than good…but i will get there eventually 😀
Lynette says
I’ve never seen one of these but am definitely going to look for one. I could definitely put this to use against dandelions, canadian thistles, burdocks and weeds!
Linda says
I would love this! I’ve lost my other tool for weeds and this looks far superior. The weeds are loving the weather this year!!
Jane Newby says
I have a weed that is almost impossible to get rid of due to the roots along with onions and dandelions – would love the help from this tool!
Barb says
Not only is the Hori Hori a nice looking tool, it looks like it really does the job. Go get those weeds, Hori, Hori! Looks like a fun tool to use.
Karen says
This would be a tool from heaven. Catching up on so much in the gardens after losing my husband to a terminal illness. Like to do ecologically sound gardening and this tool would get endless use. Regarding the martini…I would say with just a kiss of vermouth…and I do mean just the tiniest of tiny kiss of vermouth. Otherwise, don’t even add it. Too much is the ruination of a fine martini. Love your blog. Thanks for sharing all the wonderful information.
Jane Newby says
Would love to have the help of this tool for many weeds!
Ellie says
OMG, the answer to my prayers! Lately the score has been weeds 15 to my efforts to combat 2!
Edelle Rose says
I would love this for my little yard with soooooo many weeds. Throw my name in the hat please.
Annette Guilfoyle says
In my garden I have a continuing problem with purslane. The Hori Hori would help me diggy diggy keeping it under control. I would love the receive your extra purchase.
BjTreants says
This is a garden tool that will be a great help from the looks of it. Hope my post will win it. Thanks Kevin Lee. You do good stuff for us.
Carol says
This would be great for those darn thistles that like to keep coming up in my blackberries.
Meryl Gartside says
Would love to win this tool to do battle with formidable perennial weeds in the sandy soil on Cape Cod. A Garden for the House is wonderful. Thank you.
Rema says
Oh My you have many wonderful followers!!!
Roxy says
The Hori Hori would be a great help to me in making my very first personal yard (recently acquired at the age of 55) into the outdoor space I have always dreamed of having. Thank you for all the great knowledge and sheer enjoyment you share with your readers.
Harriette Chandler says
I friend let me use hers last week and found it was so much easier to push into the ground than the regular square pointed one I have used for years.
I have bad thumbs and it was less painful to use,as it is so much sharper.
I think it will be my only digging tooll
I am sold and would love to win one of the Hori Hori tools.
jean sovienski says
`I am an avid gardener and yard person. My husband is unable to help the weeds will take over if I am unable to dig them. I wish I had the knife now as the weeds are there and I really need to have them gone.
Dianne says
Everyone wants one! What a great tool. Would be nice to make the task a little easier. I enjoy your posts. 🙂
Nancy Ginkel says
I purchased a similar tool years ago, but mine has the jagged edge on only one side, and it isn’t the cutting side for a righty. I would love this tool.
Dory says
I would be thrilled to win this fabulous garden tool. My mother, Tillie, still had a huge garden when she passed away last October at the age of 91. I spent many summer days helping her water the garden and pull weeds. The hori hori knife was one of her favorite tools. She used it for both weeding and transplanting. If I am lucky enough to win this knife I will call it “Tillie’s Tool” and cherish it just as I did the many days working side-by-side with her in the garden.
Bill Watson says
In my opinion, it’s not a Martini without dry vermouth. … and I prefer it the old way: 3 gin to 1 vermouth.
and that hori hori looks to be a really versatile garden tool.
Cissy says
First off: Bombay Sapphire Gin martini, with the tiniest spash of vermouth, and blue cheese stuffed olives…yummm!!! Somehow, that helps with that pesky task of weeding, which the Hori Hori would be excellent for my yardful of weeds!
Deb says
My husband said he weeded the veggie garden last weekend. Well, let’s just say his idea of weeding and mine differ greatly! I surely could use this nifty little gadget! Kevin, your ‘Garden for the House’ is awesome and has given me so many ideas (and recipes) to try. Keep it coming!
Joy says
I think that tool would make weeding easier on my hands
Janet says
This tool would be great to help me take care of my garden and yes to help get rid of all the wild onions in our yard!!!!!!! Thanks for the chance to win!!!!!!!!
Carol DeWald says
I love your garden newsletter and am astounded that you can create such a wonderful garden as well as concoct such delicious culinary masterpieces!!!! I am currently soaking chive blossoms in white vinegar per your instructions and am so thrilled with the beautiful pink color the vinegar has turned. I think I’ll make more and give small bottles as gifts for Christmas!!!
I would just love to have this tool and have wanted one for years–I have buttercup weeds that have terrible taproots and the only way to get them is to dig root up and all!
Thanks for your wonderful newsletter!!
Sue Emden says
I would ” diggy, diggy” all my weeds too. I would also use it to transplant bulbs & flowers. I would have to hide it from my husband as he loves new gadgets & tools. Loved your lucious & lovely garden path tour.
Arthur Farguson says
Looks like the odds are going to be 1,000 to 1
Lori Savoie says
Love your website and would love one of these knives. Look forward every Sunday Morning to reading your site. Weeds wouldn’t have a chance in my garden if I had this knife. If I don’t win it, I’ll definitely have to buy one.
Thanks!
Lori
Merrimack, NH
Lillace Christianson says
Getting the weed, root and all, all at once? Just doesn’t get any better than that!
Linda says
Been weeding all week before the rain…much easier now it has rained…sure could use any help…would love to win!
Ann Higgins says
OHHH yes, it would make a lovely dent in my burdock mess. And all the other weeds around here!
Shelia says
Shaken not stirred, please James.
Sandra says
I WANT that knife! The first time I saw it I knew it would be on my list because of the serrations and the concave face. Do you see your image right-side up or upside down in it? Thanks for the martini question, but I prefer Merlot in the gazebo after a day grinding compost. Thanks for the chance to win one. I will treasure it. I think the handle should be red so there is no chance of misplacing it.
LOVE, LOVE, LOVE,
s
Joy says
I can’t believe I’m 44 years old and have never had a martini! But I have done lots of gardening and would love to give this tool a try!
Charlene Borden says
Looks like a great tool. Would love to win it.
Maggie says
YAY Dandelions! Please talk more about their many benefits! Not only are the greens great for salads, but the root makes a really great cuppa tea (good for the liver and kidneys). Hori Hori is a great tool !!! thanks …
Valinda says
I would love to have this for my husband for Father’s Day. Would come in handy for backyard gardening as well as at the farm.
Susan L. Espersen says
This is a very timely offer! I work in a hardware store that majors in selling chemicals to do what a little old fashioned elbow crease could accomplish! Sorry Round Up, I’m going to dig those critters out with my bare hands, but it would be easier if I won this nifty tool! 🙂
Betty says
Love any tool that will take on burdock.
Patti Beth says
Used to use an old narrow putty knife until it got lost somewhere in the garden. Your knife looks far better. Martini with vermouth and extra olives thank you.
Dee Chiodo says
If I had a Hori Hori Tool, I wouldn’t have to be a weeding fool!!!! Hip hip hooray for the Hori Hori!!!!
Barbara Bruneau says
I moved about a year ago and I’m discovering abandoned flower beds that I would love to restore. This tool would certainly help!
Linda Hancock says
Such a handy looking tool! I think it would be most helpful in digging up all the little trees that our squirrely friends are continually planting in our yard.
Libby O says
What a handy tool that would be for my gardening spot. Thanks for the chance to win.
Ivy says
I would put this guy to work right away! I had something like this years ago and loved it! And as far as drinks and gardening….. (I don’t drink the ‘hard’ stuff-to much alcoholism in the family) but an ice cold Vanilla Coke or Brazilian Limeade is perfect!
Joyce Hice says
This tool would make the gardening life of this 79 year old gun ho gardener really happy.
Lin Culp says
i have been looking at one of these knives for a year now and would just love to win this one. thank you, so much, for the generous offer.
Patricia Newton says
Really does look like a all purpose wonderful tool.
Karen L. says
Are you kidding? Who couldn’t use this gizmo!!! What a cool tool! My weeds have weeds so would I want to win this? You betcha! Oh and also I am afraid I know nothing about “drinks” as I am strictly an iced tea drinker with an occasional Creme Soda.
Cathy Haynes says
what a wonderful tool this would be to have in my bag of tricks!! Thank you for the opportunity to win Kevin! As always, I love reading your blog!
Sus says
Hi Kevin,
I loved your garden walk. My favourite is the redbud tree.
Like some people, it can be broken but still strong, and can be beautiful!
I miss redbuds. Here in the UK, not so many.
Would be grateful to be included in the chance to win the knife.
Thank you.
Sus
Warren Dahlstrom says
I would be honored to use the same tool a kanji used!
A martini without vermouth is neet!
Leslie W says
I weed I weed, I need I need! 😀
Mary Blake says
What a clever tool – my husband would be delighted to have one to use in his large garden. Thank you for the opportunity to enter into the drawing.
Lynn Rector says
If I don’t win this then it goes on my wish list.
Susan Piazza says
No vermouth !! Bombay Sapphire…shaken with ice cubes 🙂
DD Burns says
Just discovered your site and couldn’t be happier! I’m enjoying catching up on all I’ve been missing.
Since I have a knack for growing amazing weeds, the hori hori knife would be a constant companion of mine in the garden! (That, and a nice glass of chard!)
Teresa says
Me, me, me!!! Would make a wonderful tool to dig in my yard, garden and yard!
Mary Kay Foster says
Would love to win this This would be great to get all the tough weeds out of my garden.
Hope I win!
Lois says
Oh, the dandelions won’t stand a chance if I win this knife!
Lois Papa says
I am 71 years old so I need all the help I can get. I want it.,,,,,,,,,I want it.!!!!!!!!!!!!!
BarbaraLH says
looks like a great tool; I’d love to have/win one — thanks for the opportunity!
Lois Papa says
I am 71 Years old so I can use all of the help I can get. I want it !!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Judith says
I am entry number 555 which should be a lucky number — we’ll see. Enjoy your website which I learned about listening to Gardenfork when you were a guest. I live in a pine forest and only garden in pots but I love to find baby red or white pine tree sprouts and replant them in open spots on our property. This would come in handy not to mention good cocktail talk.
Catherine Parker says
I suppose the “mirror” effect bemused the weeds into submission! LOL Thus, the price of vanity. I would enjoy a chemical free weed-be-gone tool. Thanks for the drawing! 🙂
Bobbi says
Kevin, I have been following your blog for a few months now but have never posted anything. I adore your recipes and have used several on a weekly basis. I would love to hav this garden tool.
Vicki M. says
My weeds would be scared of such a tool!
Pinky L says
I would like to try the Hori Hori on the dandelions popping up in our lawn. I’ve tried other tools and can’t get the roots out.
Helen Gruenhut says
Boy, could I ever use a tool like that. I have some pesky difficult weeds.
Martini with very dry Vermouth—brings back my youth.
Adam Jones says
I have a tool similar but would love to try this in my garden.
Cindy Thompson says
Great for all my invading little trees and dandelions…will it work for my bindweed??
Susan Durgavich says
Two words – chameleon plant. Desperately trying to rid my flower bed of this very invasive (and not pleasant smelling!) plant and would LOVE to make this my instrument of success! Love your website – thank you for sharing all your gardening wisdom!
Monica says
Ha! I have no idea about the martini! However I would love to try this around the yard on some weeds. Never thought of using it on onions. Great idea!
Kathy Anderson says
I’ve never heard of this; I love the name! And I sure do have weeds. I’d love to win it. Thanks for showing what it is! Hori-hori.
Carolyn Snyder says
Would love to try it for transplanting. I love the culture involved in Japanese tools which is so different than ours.
Sue says
The weeds are thriving this rainy spring; I could certainly put the Hori Hori tool to good use. Love your email updates!
Bobbie Jo Christensen says
Kevin,
I love your blog! It’s so full of helpful and great ideas! I would like to win the giveway. I can think of so many great uses in my yard and my garden for the hori-hori.
Ruth says
seems like we could all use a Hori Hori tool in our gardens. I would love one!
I love your blog. Thanks for all you share.
Susan Nebrick says
This is a garden tool I would like to have! Hate those pesky weeds, especially dandelions.
Sorry, don’t know a thing about Martini’s; I’m a white wine girl myself!
Josie says
Kevin,
Thanks for all the tips and usefull information on your site! Vermouth!!!
Janet R says
gosh I would love to have that knife! Love the blog!
Carla says
I was battling some huge weeds at my Mom’s house today and the best I was able to do was get rid of the ugly leaves…..the roots remained…..so I am sure they will return quickly!! This tool would have been a Godsend! Thank you for the opportunity to enter the drawing.
Lulu says
Ill make Hari Kari with the hori hori, on the weeds of course. I think a martini is good either way, especially if someone else is making it!!
Steve Wood says
It would be just a great way to segue into talking about this website.
Susan Dollard says
I have heard they are very useful tools, just haven’t had the extra money to get one. It would be very cool to win!!
Pattie Komai says
I could certainly put the knife to work on the many dandelions and sub clover that have seemed to sprout overnight!
emilie123 says
Visualizing my using the Hori-Hori Tool in my perennial garden.
I would love to be gifted with this.
Grateful for the opportunity.
Marlene says
Wow! Would I love one of those to weed the herb garden I created for my coop bldg in the midst of Manhattan. BTW, have made the chive pesto now twice and used the leftovers for a pasta and asparagus dinner. It is absolutely the best. Thanks for all the great recipes.
Denise in Colorado says
K!
Wow! I’m late reading this today because I was out in my garden trying to dig dandelions! I good tool would help me!
Thanks for your cool giveaway stuff!
😉
Lisa Connolly says
I could sure use one of these! I was just thinking that my weeds need some attention, but I am overwhelmed at the number of them in my grass. 🙁
Marsha says
Right after I root a few boxwood cuttings, make chive blossom vinegar, plant the leeks and lay the newslpaper, I’d love to win that tool and catch up on the weeds!! I don’t remember how I found you, but I’m glad I did….Great site and interesting ideas.
Joni Davis says
I rinse my martini glass with vermouth and then toss it – I still get a tad of vermouth with the good stuff!!! Dirty Martini is my favorite!!
Aunt Granny says
I’d love to try this bad boy on the THISTLES that insist on popping up in my landscape!
Judy Tolbert says
Hi Kevin, I love your website — always love to get new ideas about gardening. I have lots of wild onions, ivy, and roots that need to “go away”, and the Hori Hori tool would do the trick.
susan sexton says
Would love to have this, I have weed roots that go halfway to China!
Sharon says
Wow. There are almost as many comments here as the number if yards of mulch I moved today to keep out those pesky weeds! But I know they will be back so this sweet tool will win me the battle!!
Theresa says
I recently moved to WV on a place that has a fenced garden, but it has been unused for the past two years, so the weeds in the garden space have really been able to get well established. I’ve never had to deal with burdock before and that stuff is crazy hard to dig out. I could sure use that Hori-hori in my garden!
Thanks!
Sonja says
This would make a great replacement for my ancient dandelion digger.
Lisa Carll says
This would be perfect for the overgrown yard and garden I am trying to tackle. Lots of deep
scrub stuff and weeds galore.
Dawna says
Since I know zilch about alcohol, I’ll just say THAT is a lovely tool, and I would live to have one!
Suzanne Bennett says
Would love to have this tool to attack the wild strawberries that have taken my flower beds out. Looks like I could get the roots with this. I skip the martinis and go for a nice Margarita after a day spent weeding. Thanks for the chance to win this tool.
Wanda says
This tool is my best friend in the garden!!! Whoever wins it will be sooooo happy! I just love that someone else appreciates it the same way I do. Good luck to all!
Pepper says
With all of the rain we have been having, weeds are everywhere! What a great tool to get my garden back in order.
Patricia A DeMeo says
As I do all my gardening by myself and have tough weeds, it seems to me that this implement would save time and make weeding almost pleasant.
kimbra rollings says
the dandelions in my yard have taken over!!! this would annihilate them!! i have never seen such a wonderous TOOL!!!! heaven is what that is & YES cocktails & gardening PLEASE!!!!!!
Kasey says
Would love to win this tool to help remove thistles in my raspberry patch
Carmen Y says
I’d actually be afraid to win this – if I started digging out all the weeds in my yard I’m afraid it would be more dirt than yard!
Barbara says
I love your gardens and the things you share each month! Some of your ideas are taking shape here. :o) I would love to have a good tool like the hori-hori to use in moving plants. . .some to other places in the garden. . .some to other places on earth! :o) Have a great week!
kimbra rollings says
OMGRAVEY!!!! the dandelions have taken over my yard!!! that tool looks like heaven!!!! & YES cocktails with gardening PLEASE!!!! oh BTW thank you so much for your newsletters they are amazing & so helpful & I love peeking into your gorgeous home 😀
Aimee P says
This tool would make a wonderful addition to the farm.
Theresa N says
I know it would be useful at my house. I’ve never had a Martini, you have to tell me I have no idea.
gloria says
My hands and nails will be so happy- Gloves never protect entirely.
Apryl says
I like my martinis with a touch of Vermouth. Don’t forget the olives.
Dandelions in a field can be quite pretty. A sea of yellow. The leaves are tasty in salad.
Judy says
I would love an opportunity to try this out in our clay soil!
Marla says
Hi,
Would love to have this Hori-hori to use in my flower gardens to dig out weeds. The last few years it has become harder to dig out the weeds since I have fibromylgia and my muscle give me lots of pain. But whoever gets the tool Congratulations to them and hopefully they will make good use of it.
Love your blog!
Blessings and Happy Gardening
Terry says
My gardening nemesis is getting down on my knees to weed — aging knees and hips are no fun. Anything I could use to get more done before I have to use a wood pole to pull myself off the ground would be absolutely great! A slick, well made tool such as the Hori-Hori would let me get more done before my 10 minutes kneeling in the garden are up for the following hour. Thank you for considering me for this wonderful tool.
Mary anne says
Thanks for the repeat info about milk and black spot. Fingers crossed it seems to be working.
Would love the new garden tool.
Lois says
just recuperating from foot surgery. flower beds have gotten away from me, think I could sit on the garden bench and get those weeds easier with this hori hori spade. age (77) and weeds are getting the better of me,. = )*. will need to find where I can buy one if I don’t win this. Thanks for so much information and lovely garden photos. Love it.. Lois
Edith says
I am always pulling weeds and not getting the roots so I would love this tool. I also have arthritis in my hands and it would make parts of gardening so much easier.
sandi says
This looks fantastic. I need this. I have burdock all over with a constant battle in different spots every year – often not spotted until getting large. I’ll have to order one. Great pictures showing how easy to use. Love your site.
Sandi
Ann Mettler says
I’d love to have one of those pretty diggy diggy thingys!!
Larva says
I NEED one of these, I REALLY do!! Nice pictures and description.
Gladys says
The ‘hori-hori’ would definitely be an asset for my gardening chores!
lee heller says
Hello!
I would love to have one of these garden tools. I am forever digging up weeds that come back if you don’t get the entire root like violets and dandelions. Obviously whatever I am doing now to get rid of them is not working!
Thanks, Lee
janny rosborough says
i have raspberry shoots sneaking up everywhere. this tool would be a godsend!!!
jo helen says
Would love to have a hori hori knife. I have spent the last four days working in the yard and wished I had had one then. Love this site.
Michael says
I would “diggy diggy”a “hori hori” !
Amy says
I think I would look pretty bad*@#$! with that hori hori knife in the sheath on my belt buckle! Oh and I have some nasty creeping charley I would love to hori hori!
wendy says
Would love to win this knife… I have sharp, thorny weeds that I am always digging out!!!!
Sharon Kump says
Would love to have both….the Hori Hori AND a martini! Appears to be a very functional tool.
Apryl says
Just in case I don’t win, where can your model be purchased?
Susan Chitty says
I would really like to try this on my pesky Florida weeds! Thanks for your website, I enjoy the recipes and the gardening ideas.
Joanne Kinderwater says
Wow. The Hori Hori tool sure looks and sounds great. I would like to try one. I enjoy your blog.
And am totally amazed at what you accomplish both inside and out.
At #622 it looks as though my chances are slim to none but I’ll try anyway.
Deirdre says
Chocolate martini, oat and flaxseed bread, cultured butter, quail eggs, sautéed dandelions and nettles with wild garlic, spring salad of pea shoots, lambs lettuce, baby spinach,edible flowers, rhubarb crumble and custard 😉 hori hori!!
Lolo says
Wicked!!! Sprained my hand with all the weeding this Spring…no kidding. Love your site, love your humor, love your garden.
Dawn says
That would come in very handy when i weed. Thank you!
Kris says
I have heard of these fantastic knives….one would really be great for our flower garden!
I am really enjoying your newsletter Kevin.
Deloris says
Wow, with all the replies I hesitated to post (it would be like winning the lottery). BUT I want to say, I’ve been online with a gardening forum for years now and I’ve heard RAVE reviews for this. I too bought a cheap version and digging out polk, it twisted (literally). Checked into it last year because I seem to have a ghost at night sowing , Burdock, Polk (those tubers get massive), dandelion, wild onion, WALNUT and MIMOSA seedlings (bang my head against the privacy fence post!) I would love to win this and I think you’d somehow feel empowered to have that sheath and WHIP it out and shout HORI HORI and dig its clenching claws out of the ground. HAHA I love your email, the one I always have to read! Thank you for doing this!
Linda Deutsch says
With a spade and a rake and a hori hori, what else do you need? I’d love to win one!
Liza coonse says
I spent the weekend weeding, harvesting and planting in my backyard garden. This fabulous tool would be perfect addition to my gardening weekends! And no vermouth- I prefer a citrus vodka in my martini!
Linda Hart says
Removing grass , weeds & taproots that encroach around and upon my sprinkler heads…especially the pop-up sprinklers, removing thistles, and mallow (boy howdy do the latter ever have long roots & keep growing back no matter what if you don’r get the whole root), planting bulbs in the fall when my soil tends to be especially hard to dig in without using a foot on a large shovel, thus tearing up more of the flower bed.
Joan E says
My fingers are crossed….pick me please.
Dianne Aiken says
Where could this be purchased at if not able to win it?
jessica says
my first year gardening, so it would be nice to have this tool.
also, is this burdock you dug up is the same burdock used to eat, or is it a form of weed burdock.
thanks.
Debra says
I will have to google this tool for purchase if I am not the lucky winner! I despise weeds.
Lorrayne Carpenter says
I think your website is wonderful….and I love how you take the time to continue the heritage that you beautiful home came with! Your heart for restoring the home to its prior life is to be commended in an age of instant fixes, and disregard for aged things. Appreciate seeing your endeavors ! I garden in the hot, sw. Desert, so I appreciate good tools that will tolerate the heat, and last! Have a beautiful summer!
jan moore says
Without vermouth it wouldn’t be a martini.
Nancy Kodish says
Weeding sounds like fun with a Hori Hori!
Erika says
Seems a very useful tool. Thanks for the giveaway.
Erika
Wesley Tyler says
Well one can never have enough garden tools and this is one exotic tool i gotta admit i have wanted one i saw one at a friends and i covitited it!
Susan Morgan says
always wanted to try a diggy diggy ~ budget has never stretched far enough to accommodate one. 🙂
has anyone ever tried to make their own dandelion wine?
Sue says
Nicely designed little tool – looks good, too. It’s a nice feeling to use tools that are good quality and well made, and work well. And it’s own sheath? Neat!
Lori says
would love a tool as cool as that one
Monica says
I bought a tool similar to this one for my sister because she is left-handed. Any lefty out there who can vouch that this is the tool for them? Although I’m not left-handed, I would love to win this tool!
jill says
Great tool! I am always looking for new tools. This would be perfect for dividing perennials and, of course, weeding.
gabrielle says
what a great tool to have – one i’ve been thinking about adding to my collection – would love to win it! love your blog -keep up the good work!
Mary says
Would love to win this. Thank you. Look forward to your email every week.
Elaine Renaud says
Can’t have too many garden tools!!!!
Loren and Betty Housworth says
This looks like a real treasure. i have a huge yard in town with very fertile soil. Every tree seed that lands here…grows. I could have this with me, instead of having to go to get the shovel every time I see one. Of course, I have the typical weeds, also, that have deep roots. Fight dock, dandelions, and the worst is poke weed. The roots go so deep. This tool would save thos lod lady many trips to the shed for the shovel. Have a growing summer!
Jo-Anne says
Love your website…….so beautiful and professional…love your home ideas…and gardening ideas….such an eclectic array of inspiration….and I’d never turn down a martini nor a glass of red wine……..ain’t livin’ great!
Kathy says
Awesome garden tool! Would make garden care alot easier!!
Michele S. says
How would that Hori Hori handle bittersweet which has the longest invasive root I know up north here? Not so sure it would handle it in one shot and playing tug-of-war with them is a losing battle:-( they (bittersweet) may have pretty berries in the fall/winter, but they definitely are tree chokers. Any ways hope to win and work on the smaller weeds;-)
Vicki says
Please tell me the “H” is silent…..
Janet Ortega says
I would love a hori hori tool for all those nasty long tap roots that we encounter in the desert when we garden. Don’t really know anything about a martini…never had one. Thank you Kevin for offering. I recently pulled out a desert willow tree and the tap root went down about 4 feet that I could see. I finally poured Apple cider vinegar on it. It was right under the outside water spigot. Not good!
Lori jones says
Sorry cant help with the drink. As for the hori hori I would live to win one!!! Thanks for the chance to win!!
Scott Trudell says
I agree with you… Gardening is always better with a cocktail. Although, I’m not a martini man… Gin and tonic would be my choice. Bottoms up!!
Raven says
Vermouth DEFINATELY.
Linda says
My patio jungle can use such a tool. Squirrels keep me busy digging up shoots, Some plants are prolific and scatter their seeds all over my patio garden. And then there are the flower beds in front!
Helen says
I want want want one!!!
Mike Sanderson says
I just finished weeding my backyard yesterday after my wife was worried that our 2 year old daughter was going to step on one of the prickly weeds. It would have been so much easier with the hori hori!!
Betty says
It looks very handy and I do have alot of dandlions
Sharon says
Would love this tool to use on wild garlic in my garden.
Debbie says
The hori hori would certainly get a lot of use in this household. Thanks for purchasing two.
dan mckinnon says
moving into a new home and it will certainly help me get my new gardens in order
Mona Tammaro says
I can “dig it”! It would be Hori,Horible not to win
Sherri says
I’ve heard about this tool and how great they are. Would love to try one myself. Martini? I’ll stick with margaritas.
Linda Halterman says
Hori, Hori, Diggy, Diggy…….super tool…..give me, give me! So many weeds in my yard that have deep roots….pull to no avail! Thanks!
pamela says
at 73 living in northern mn with our short and late spring i need all the help i can get to get my blooms love your site is new to me and helps me to keep dreaming thanks
heidi says
digger/knife/mirror – sweet!
Dorothy D says
I would love this wonderful tool to get the quack grass out of my flower bed!
Vicki Clark says
I have several trowels, but none that nice!
Woody says
Excellent for intimidating voles. And for my martini, a capful of Noilly Prat, please.
Julsie1231 says
Martini? No thanks, but love ruby red grapefruit juice with tarragon instead. Would love a new trowel for trying out on horseradish. Thanks for the chance!
Trish says
Sure do need a good tool for digging. I’ve never seen this one.
Vicki says
Would love to win this, every tool helps when it comes to fighting the weeds
Vicky King says
I’d love this new tool to use in my South Carolina garden. I just moved here from New York and this is my first southern garden.
Joanne Halter says
Would love to try this tool dandelion digging and weeding the Canada Thistle.
jim says
I am going to be moving and am going to attempt to move my 9x12ft shade native plant garden This tool would be great!!!!!
Kathy miller says
This tool would make my weeding chore so much easier!
Donna G says
Thank you for introducing this tool. This is the first time I have heard of it. Being a new gardener any information is always appreciated. I am in the process of trying to turn my drab landscape into something better. Hard to do on a nonexistent budget but I will make it happen!
Debi Marti says
I just had 19 trees removed from my yard, both front and back! I HAVE SUN! But, thanks to all those trees, I have about a bazillion baby trees that need to go NOW! That wonderful tool would be a Godsend! I truly need one for the trees and also for all the weeds…..I need flower and veggie gardens!
Martini’s…..chocolate for me please….I don’t know much about them, but I’d say with the vermouth, and make mine dirty! hehehehe
Thanks for the great contest!!
Lise Giroux-Beattie says
I can hardly wait to try this new tool…Thanks in advance.
Enid Albat says
Oh my, I think the gentleman around 555 was right, it is going to hit 1000 entries because it is only Sunday night now. I love the newsletters/blogs. Enjoy your giveaways because I could a/ would use anything you have selected. I love reading everyone’s comments, some humorous, some educational. Sometimes wish it was possible to comment on them. I would welcome #10 Collen to AR, ask several why they want to remove the wild violets, I LOVE mine, ask others how they would use it on asparagus. And I am particularly interested in removing a terrible plant that in two droughty years took over my yard. It is a soft carpet green plant that grows too low for the lawn mover to handle and after about 10 weeks drys into an insidious sticker that looks ugly in the yard, hooks onto everything, hurts and spread. When I tried weeding the soft green stage out the roots did not come and the growth was back in days. I have been told my best hope is to burn them out for two years. I can’t even find a name for this terrible stuff. Thanks.
Donna says
You can have some of my dandelions 🙂
Jana says
That looks like an amazing garden tool.
Phyllis says
What a neat tool; I need one! We have lots of weeds in Kansas!
Sheila says
Sounds like a great tool. It would be good to move a little dirt to plant things also. I would love to try it out.
Teresa Sopher says
I`m pretty sure I need one of these! The recent rains have caused me to fall far behind in my weeding.
Deanna Jolly says
This is the tool that I have been Looking for! I could weeds, it would help me move some of my plants and herbs.
for me it’s a glass of wine!
Susan Assel says
What an awesome tool! I could really use this on my small homestead. It’s an old field that has a LOT of weeds that need to be dug out. 😉
Cara says
Holy cow you have a a lot of followers! I could use one of those fancy weeders too! My chickens have been slacking 🙂
Brenda says
How can you call it a martini without vermouth? Rinse the shaker with vermouth, shake out excess and pour in your vodka…shake, shake, pour…then sit back and admire the dandelions!
Kim says
The number of other contenders is very similar to the abundant number of weeds peeking at me daily. If only I had this tool to cut away and dispose of the competition!
Eloise says
Hori-hori, please come my way! My wild onions and dandelions are causing me to sip far too much thyme-infused vodka lemonade! I’m not a martini drinker,but a hori-hori and my lemonade concoction will make my summer sheer bliss! Thank you.
Lynne says
I would certainly love to diggy diggy with your dandy knife, and check out how badly the hairdo is doing as I get sweaty in the garden, all at the same time.
Cheryl says
Nothing beats a nice, tall gin and tonic in the summer! I’ll share my highly prized recipe if I win:)
Working hard in the garden and learning more all of the time, but would love to try this cool tool!
Win or lose, I love your website.:)
Chris says
Hi Kevin,
Martini with vermouth and a little chambord thrown in for good measure 🙂 will trade other bartending secrets when I win the hori hori. tnx
Stephanie Wurzer says
I love tools!!!!
#8 Lady, I just planted horsetail for the third time. I wish it would take over.
My Cactus multiply like rabbits(and we have tons of those). That Hori Hori would get down to their tap roots.
Two cocktails onions.
Cara Stamp says
I like my martinis shaken not stirred and just a little bit dirty to at h my gardening gloves. Lol You just can’t have enough gardening tools!
LB says
I have LOTS of weeds in my large veggie garden and any tool that makes weeding easier would be greatly appreciated!
Barb Rrr says
Hi Kevin,
Took your Prosecco tour. Beautiful! Hard to believe that there was snow everywhere not so long ago.
Carol says
It’s like I have to have that tool your a genius because you can attract so many people
that really enjoy what you do and also I’m Canadian and I’m spreading your name
to like minded people.
Congrats
Carol
Stacy Green says
Wow look at all these comments! Tough competition but I love that your website is a success. I have an ongoing war with some nasty weeds that I’d use this nifty tool on.
Brenda Alvey Gildersleeve says
Oh, I could use the HoriHori on my amazing crop of dandelions! I dig one up… And turn around to see a new one pop up behind me
Phyllis Bartram says
We have so many dandelions in our yard and my husband tries so hard to keep up with them, to no avail. I know this tool would help him and his birthday is coming up in two more weeks! It would be such a grand gift for him. (He will be a young 83!) I love your newsletter!
Sharon says
Wow, a whole lot of people want to win this, me too. I had one and lost it when it was almost brand new, have looked and looked a million places, it’s probably deep down in the ground, you know?
Lynnette says
Hori-Hori would complement my Ho-mi perfectly.
Carlos says
Me too.. Me too I want to win, lol! Would be very useful around here.
Daniela Bellissimo says
To dig weeds in the hard desert soil…seems perfect!!! Good luck to all of us 🙂
Mary Roberts says
Kevin,
I have been a very bad girl and ordered so many plants that I am having trouble getting all my flowerbeds made for them. But, I am determined to make this ugly, lifeless back yard a serene, beautiful natural retreat/repose when my spirit needs refreshing.
Unfortunately, I have a prosthetic right wrist and the wear and tear of the planting and digging and weeding is getting a bit uncomfortable. I think the Hari Hari tool would really expedite my labors.
Thanks for sharing your home, gardens and recipes with everyone…I look so forward to reading your updates.
Sara says
Over 740 comments…. very popular, and I might add, wonderful ideas!
Thanks for all the great ideas and food creations.
becky nelson says
I have too many dandelions and no hori-horis!
Debbie says
Looks like the Hori-Hori is just what I could use for my flower beds. I am new to your email and website and am enjoying your articles and advise. Thank you for sharing your knowledge.
Terri says
This would be awesome for our veggie garden! Would love to win it 🙂
vickie says
So funny because I need a tool just like that! Thanks for the chance
Anna says
We’re just starting out with a new vegetable garden. It’s currently a big patch of weeds. I would love a Hori-Hori to tackle them!
Joyce says
Whoa.Kevin,you have A lot of fans !
Always look forward to Sunday morning with
You. Just Ice Cold Vodka w a Twist and a Hori
Hori for me, please!
LINDA says
Oh my goodness, could I ever put that tool to good use!
My flower garden is coming up just beautifully, like my
lily’s, and so are the weeds… and they are so sneaky!
Happy Holiday Every One And Thank You Armed Services!!
Linda
LINDA says
Sorry Kevin, almost forgot!
I prefer ‘Man Hatties’. (Manhattan)
A glass,, ice cubes, Bourbon or Scotch, and Sweet Vermouth.
Never add the bitters, add a cherry,…. and I always say, ‘ put some
cherry juice in it !
Relax and enjoy your holiday and beautiful garden!
Linda
Peggy says
Always wanted one of those to help with the constant weeding. I made your rubarb rustic torte and all thought it was delicious. Can’t wait to make it again. Son thought I should make one everyday.
Lindsay says
diggy diggy 🙂
Judi Jones says
I would love a Hori-Hori because I hori-hori constantly. I weed for relaxation…in my garden and those of my friends…I have a couple of tools for digging out weeds but not this one…and this would be so helpful. Good luck to all!
Cindy Faulkner says
I’d like to give that tool a try. Thanks for the chance.
Peggy Iversen says
I like it. It looks like it would be easy to use. Would come in handy in my garden. Peg
Peter Weissenstein says
This would be an awesome tool for me to have because I am converting a part of my lawn to a huge Hosta bed and it would make the digging them up to split them a piece of cake (which – depending upon what type – might go well with a vermouthless martini! It would also make it easier for me to dig up dandelions for my morning juices.So as far as the hori-hori – pick me pick me oh random generator gods!
Marcia Marcotte says
Looks like a great tool for the garden and yard. I have a weed that likes my yard and this tool would make the job much easier**
Annie says
I don’t drink martinis, whiskey sours are more my speed, but I could really use a tool like this! I have some awful prickly weed that, if unchecked, grows taller than my 6 year old and spreads like crazy. I’m trying your suggestion of wet newspaper under a thick layer of mulch to see if that abates it but first I have to pull it and of course it is in my biggest bed that wraps around 2 sides of the house!
Linda says
Love the mystical martin with…and it makes tending to those weeds almost enjoyable! I said almost :).
suzi fox says
Forget about that garden tool …you are the king of blog posts……………………758…..in just a few days….. I think you should be in charge of something in the world that needs to be turned around………Kevin you could be our saving grace!!
Sarah says
Hori Hori Looks looks well made for lots a diggy diggy,certainly an upgrade to what I use .
Michele says
That looks like a pretty versatile tool that I could use in many ways, but best might be to keep working away at the thistle that keeps tying to take over my back yard. I keep pulling them up (getting as much of the root as possible), and they keep coming back. I really don’t want to use chemicals!
As for the vermouth, I wouldn’t know as I’ve never had a martini. That’s something that I should really do some day …
Cathy says
Wowsie Mosie Pick a Posie!!! But get rid of those weeds! That thing looks AWESOME!!!!!!! The weeds are trying to take over. Time for some diggy diggy.
Oh and by the way, I’m a margarita girl. Never had a martini.
Christina Pilon says
“I want it…I want it, NOW!”…
Veruca Salt
Georgette says
Hi Kevin, I would say Sayonara weeds. It looks like they wouldn’t stand a chance with this tool.
Julie Regish says
I like my martinis bone dry. No vermouth. And when i’ve had a really bad friday, I eat an olive out of the jar and just slug out of my bottle of 44 North Magic Valley Vodka. Try it, I think you will like it.
Sandra says
I love anything that helps me weed without chemicals.
Kim says
I really really need a hori hori because I love to diggy diggy!
diana says
Thanks for all your great info, love reading it all. Have A great day!
Joann says
HI KEVIN…I LOVE TO HAVE A NICE COOL GLASS OF WINE DURING AND AFTER DIGGING UP SOME OF THOSE WEEDS IN THE GARDEN AND FLOWER BEDS. THE ONLY PROBLEM IS IT TENDS TO MAKE ME SLEEPY THUS NOTHING GETS DONE. THE HORI HORI WOULD ENABLE ME TO GET THE JOB DONE ALOT FASTER SO I WOULD GET PLENTY OF REST AND ENJOY MY DAYS IN THE SUN.
Ann says
Thank you for sharing this information about the Hori Hori. I have never heard of them but now I know I need one to keep the weeds out of my brick walkway. I added this one and some of the other Japanese tools to my wish list on Amazon!
Have a great Memorial Day!
Christie Ogburn says
Would love to have this for my wild onions and my dandelions.
dana-dxb says
i sure wanna have it
simply coz i like japaneas stuff
and it would be pretty handy in my garden
Marcia Mast says
Kevin – I love your newsletter and all the wonderful ideas it has in it! Thank you for giving me a chance to win such a cool tool!
Emily Colburn says
I love to garden, and my hsuband does Bonsai. This tool would be useful in our home.
Kendra says
What a beauty 😉 you had me a dandelions (yes, I keep a few around myself) and mirror ~ lol!
Kelly says
I have heard great things about this tool. I have dandelions popping up all over the garden and no good tool to remove them. This would be perfect.
Richard says
Martini is better with a tiny amount of vermouth
Sharon Reese says
I love good tools and this looks like a great one that I’d love to have.
thanks
Tom B says
If I won, the war on the dandelions would turn in my favor! I would celebrate with a martini made with vermouth!
Nancy W. says
Just bought an old house with “garden gone wild” and this tool would bring big smiles to my life.
Sylvia Shelnutt says
As I scroll down to make my comment entry I see that my chances of winning are slim to none but I love the great competition.
As to the question Is a martini better with or without vermouth? I say without and by all means use Hendrix gin and queen stuffed olives.
Are you familiar with the Kombi shovel? It is a long handle shovel that is narrower at the bottom and serrated on both sides. It is great for digging and separating daylilies and hostas that are tightly bunched together or any digging that is done when there are roots in the soil. They can be purchased online at http://www.kombigardentool.com/. I found out about the tool from the master gardeners and have had mine for years. Check it out.
Susan Allen says
I prefer Cosmopolitans…no vermouth necessary!
Barb S. says
I would love this knife. I don’t thing I would use it on the same day I was drinking the martinis though! LOL!!!
Marie Wimberly says
Would love to have this tool and want to say I love your site. Love your handy tips and great recipes.
Marie G says
I am 75 years old and this would give me an edge against the weeds and loosening the soil.
Debra Olger says
I just broke my tool, I would love to try this one out!
Donna S. says
I would love to use it to fight the wild onions in the gardens !Little s*#*t’s get in every where!
Linda S says
My nails would love you!
Deb Vaughn says
We have lots of those darn sticker plants that grow in our pasture and I think this tool would be awesome at digging them up. You gotta get the entire root or t hey’ll come right back! Cool website!
Loura says
My worst nightmare is weeds. I would love to win this!
Michelle says
That could be the best gardening tool ever, especially for raised beds.
susan leonard says
I do a lot of work in my garden and yard and this tool would really help a lot
thank you Kevin for a chance to win this
thanks
Susan
Patty Gaspar says
Yes on the vermouth! If you think you dont like the taste start with a little. You could use the hori hori to stir a pitcherful.
Vicky T says
One can never have enough good garden tools! ;o)
Diane Stowe says
I have some very pesky weeds in my flower be, always a struggle with these, this Hori Hori just be what I need, would love to win it.
Kristina says
This would be amazing to have!! I would love to have this in my gardening arsenal! Thanks for the chance 😀
Christina Giordano says
Hi Kevin – your entire site is inspiring.
pat. dobbins says
i must say I love your emails and your garden is fantastic! Would love to have one of these-but if I don’t will have to see if I can buy one. Thanks for your inspirations.
Psatti bell says
We have an over abundance of thistle’s on our farm. I take a big old very sharp knife and cut them out of the ground with the blade. I also use my knife to cut the heads off when they are getting ahead of my efforts and are going to seed. (I place in a plastic bag which goes into the garbage. They make gazillions of seeds.) This usually works well but I also cut myself requiring 6 stitches. This would make a wonderful tool and maybe I wouldn’t hurt myself.
Lynda Gilroy says
With this garden tool I would laugh at nasty garden choirs, and it’s beautiful.
Kim says
We had a bumper crop of acorns last year. This might be what I need to finish pulling up the last few hundred baby oak trees in my garden and yard!!
Peaches Spiritwalker says
I am a beginner gardener and I am obtaining tools as I need them. This looks like a good tool to have in my tool shed.
Denise Maurer says
This is the 1st tool I put in the cart when I’m setting out to garden. It is so versatile I don’t think I could garden without one.
Pauline Boring says
Love your Newsletter, I share it with my Garden Club Gals – Like the cool tool, will see if I may be the luck receipent
patt reid says
Wow, this was one popular tool posting. I never win anything, but you could fix that! Anyway, I have seen these tools around but they were not nearly the quality of what you are showing us. Maybe you can tell us where the ‘losers’ among us can buy one.
Cindy Townsel says
I would love this! Always looking for great gardening tools that make tasks easier. I would use it when splitting irises.
Susan Watkins says
We live 5 miles out of town and every morning I drink a cup of coffee while surveying &/or working in my flower beds. And it is more normal than not, I’ll find a new oak tree growing in one of them. Our squirrels find it easy to hide the nuts around my flowers. As you can imagine, those little trees are tough to get out, root and all. I would live and use this tool almost every morning and I think it could make my mornings much easier. I might even habe time to relax in my porch!
Marilyn Purdy says
I could dig a diggy diggy!
Lori A says
I would love to have one of these. Since I saw it on your site, I have looked at my local garden center for one but no one has it. Would love to own it. I would like to thank you for your postings. Love them all, but especially I love the way you start the winter seedlings in the milk containers. I hope you post it again next year so I can do then. Saving the containers….
Thank you again for all the great info and beautiful pictures of house and garden.
kisia shaw says
it looks like a good tool ( hori -hori tool) for a old lady like me.
Genny Mayer says
I had a Hori-Hori several year ago and like a fool let a friend take it home to use. Love my friend, but I don’t lend her anymore garden tools! Winning one would make me so happy, it really works even with severe arthritis!
Terry Smith says
Vodka straight up with a small twist of lemon…..too bad the daffodils are pretty much gone. They go great with the lemon as you sip out on the deck or porch. Love your site and it cheers this old guy up when he has his rare “down” day. My best to you, Terry
Shawnie says
Hi there! I would use this delightful tool all over the yard … and probably join my neighbor in as well – we sometimes work together (SMILE )…
As far as the Martini goes – vermouth is neither here-nor-there … it’s the pimento stuffed.green olives and a splash of the juice that count! 🙂
Judy says
I have finally mulched the walkways in my garden: two layers of newspapers, one layer of cheap landscaping cloth and 3-6 inches of wood chips that have been piled up for a year. Everything looks so neat…I dare any weed to enter – especially if I’m armed with a hori hori tool!
Debbie says
Whats better than a Hori Hori Knife?
A Hori Hori Knife and a Martini… WITHOUT vermouth. 🙂
I happen to like VERY dry…EXTREME Martini’s!
Love ya!
Tim says
Extra olive juice, no vermouth!
Julie Frey says
I have a garden,
It has many a weed,
Hori, Hori in my hands,
Is just what I need….
Yes, I am an English teacher who will spend summer break in the backyard. 😉
Kevin says
May 28th is my Birthday… The Hori Hori tool would make a great present! Ha! Since I have so many weeds in my yard & garden, I could be using the knife daily for years. Since you seem to hate weeds….. I bet if given the tool, I would destroy more weeds than any other participant! In my hands it would be a weapon of mass destruction!
Thanks for all your handy tips, recipes, etc… Love your site!
Candi says
I never knew a dandelions tap root was so long!
Nancy Jalaty says
My husband and I would love to win this handy tool! I will take Pinot Grigio over a martini! Thx in advance!
Laurie N says
In Arizona the ground is so hard to dig into, this looks perfect!
Jenn says
This tool would be of great use in my garden for digging up poke weed, dandelions and thistle. I love the translation!
Cat Lee says
Cool tool! Sure hope I win!!!!
Patsy says
I am a “novice” gardener, looking to find the right tools, ideas for planting, and recipes! This is the perfect place to learn! Thank you, Kevin, for your amazing ideas, and practical tips! I have sent this link to everyone I know! :o)
Marilyn Elliott says
Great little gardening tool! Wonder how effective it would be on crab grass, the bane of my existence….and yard!
Lois says
Simple. Dandelions.
Katt says
I’m fighting a constant battle against burdock, and this would be a fantastic help!
Matthew Davis says
Looks like what I have needed all spring to get out deep tap roots and set shallots. Knowing a tools exists is half the battle. Not sure why one would make a Gibson or a Martini without Vermouth?!
Karen says
Oh Kevin…this Hori Hori tool will work wonders in my North Carolina garden with its rich soil and unfortunuately many weeds. I absolutely refuse to use Round Up or any other !@#$%$% herbicide so please send this wonderful tool!
PS: Already 826 gardeners have entered! You are a popular guy!!!
Laura R. says
Gotta have vermouth in a martini! My dear departed uncle introduced me to Rob Roys — basically a scotch martini — made with scotch, and equal parts sweet and dry vermouth with a twist of lemon. Order a perfect Rob Roy (which is over ice, my preference), or a neat Rob Roy, served straight up. These can only be consumed after gardening chores have been completed!
Janice Aitkenhead says
Yes I would love to win this Hori Hori garden tool!
batbara laudun says
I enjoy you attitude about gardening and love you pictures and comments and yes a dry , dirty martini needs a touch of vermouth
IRIS RIDEOUT says
Beautiful, useful tool….would love to have it and it would be well used.in our garden.
Kate Kiehlbauch says
This could be THE PERFECT TOOL for those of us with hip/back issues and tending to ‘raised’ beds!!!!!!!!
Jenny Gibbs says
we flooded 5 years ago and have 2 1/2 acres of weeds that I have been fighting that came in with the flood waters!! I would love this knife to help me with my battle!
Myra Hickman says
Here’s hoping!
Kathy DiTanna says
I am the official weeder in my family. I would love to be able to spend less time weeding and more time enjoying my garden. This tool sounds too good to be true!
Alice Fish says
I will use this all the time as I have wild onions, dandelions, thistle and a plethora of other weeds popping up in my garden!
Dyhana says
ooh, maybe I would actually weed more with one of these…. dandelions, however, are sacred in my yard. No worries, there are plenty of other weeds around.
Def with vermouth. 🙂
Anita says
My dad used to say that you could do anything if you had the right tool. Pretty sure he meant that literally. This will go very well with my dirty martini : vodka, no vermouth and lots of olive juice, topped with 2 giant queen olives. Up, please.
Lauren says
I don’t think I’ve ever been excited about a web giveaway until this. This garden nerd would use this tool daily!!
Chris turner says
I would sure use it. D
I don’t drink more money for plants.
Carolyn West says
I’d love a Hori Hori knife to get after the weeds in my garden. The rain has been great, but the weeds are loving it too!
Ruth says
This looks like such a nifty and handy tool. When it’s in it’s sheath it reminds me the hunting knife that my son-in-law has. 😉
connie woodard says
This looks like one niffty tool! I could carry this with me and be prepared for most anything. Sorry I can’t answers the martini question I’m more of a beer & chips gal myself. Love your website and have learned. many useful things. I look forward to reading it. Keep up the great job! Ohio reader.
Vallygoil says
My weeds will be shuddering once I start the onslaught … bah ha ha ha ha ..
Marsha DeVaughn says
That tool is the niftiest thing since sliced bread! Serrated edge would be great for slitting open bags of potting soil too!!! I want one!!!
Carol Cerros says
I love receiving your newsletter on Sunday mornings. You have such great ideas and a beautiful yard. I recently used your newspaper idea for getting rid of weeds and it was easier than I thought it would be, except I should have unfolded and separated the newspaper before wetting. Live and learn. We have 1-1/2 acres and are in the midst of cleaning up a lot of our gardens. Unfortunately our yard was neglected last year due to a fire, and the weeds with the prickers are abundant in our son’s strawberry patch. Your tool would work great getting these little buggers under control.
Penny Simmons says
I’d love to use that knife! I just got a new hand hoe and chided myself for waiting so long – good tools are a must.
And I think for a martini to be good it needs to be made of champagne and orange juice! 🙂
Pamala says
I’m a gadget girl, I have something similar but this one looks to be better, would love to win. Thank you for the opportunity. Y’all have a nice day!
Deb Cawley says
My sister just took the Master Gardener course and would love one!
Deb Herr says
I’d love one for many reasons…one being every season my icky onions are coming back in spades! Now I use a small pick axe to dig them out. The hori hori would sure make the job infinitely easier!
Teresa says
A martini is good with OR without vermouth… especially WHEN gardening…lol. And since I live in a land of free roaming WEEDs, I really could use that Hori-Hori… Diggy-diggy… Hah!
Ronda-Lee Rathwell says
Hori Hori, the name makes me smile! What a great little tool!
And of course Yes to the Vermouth, otherwise it’s just gin in a cool glass. Oh and please add lots of olives and maybe some little onions too. Just make me a martini salad.
Barbara Bleich says
I have epic weeds in my beautiful Northwest garden. Over a half acre of them, along with all the other wonderful trees, shrubs and flowers in my new home. We are new to the Pacific Northwest and are amazed at how fast all plants grow…..including the weeds! PS: my Nona used to make dandelion salad. Thanks for the contest!
Debra Hearts Hori Hori says
Need I say more? This tool needs a holster all it’s own. Definitely a must for the garden ninja!
Sherry T says
Since my knife/spade just went by the wayside yesterday in the lovely Minnesota snow, rain and mud this season I now need a new one, this would be a wonderful item to own. I would have my hori hori knife in one hand and in the other my dry martini with a sprinkle of vermouth please and shaken not stirred.
Peggy the Plant Lady says
Half of my wormwood died this year, as well as half of all my snake weeds – this tool would make quick work of the pruning job I have – my saw and pruners are inappropriate for the job!
Donna says
I love & use mine so much it is nearly worn out!!!
sharon mack says
Kevin,
You have the best web site ever!! Dont know how you keep up.
Thanks for all your work. Great ideas.
Cindy says
That certainly looks like a handy tool…to get all Hori in the garden with. Since you recommend it, I want one. With over 800 responses, the manufacturer should be paying you to endorse it…just my opinion.
Robin says
I’m very confident with an interesting tool such as the “Hori Hori” I could pursuade a certain son, to voluntere to help in my garden with little effort. The holster would make him feel like the weed police.. I need more weed police..
Thank You
susieQ says
I would certainly love to win this wonderful looking tool. take a lot off my back bending over. thank you Kevin
Deborah says
Looks really efficient; would love to have one.
Bonnie Strautmann says
I hate digging out onions and dandelions. The Hori knife looks like it could certainly makes things a lot easier. Love you newsletter! Thanks.
cathy says
Here in tennessee we have weeds bigger than me!! and growing, would love to use that tool on those big boys to make sure i get the root!! love your website and appreciate the humour as some gardening websites are so dry and boring!! love that you include so many photos! thanks
Kristin Smith says
Good grief I’m certainly not alone in this bid for a hori hori. 853 is me, a prime number I believe. Must be lucky. Weeds are coming on fast in the Pacific NW so always looking for solutions. I appreciate the newspaper method you described.
Paddy Barr says
I have one of these and use it every time I need to weed or plant
did not know that was the name of it,
purchased mine at kingswood gardens over 10 years ago.
Ann Honer says
I guess that you have to have a ‘give-a-way’ to get great response to your suggestions!
I have been looking for a tool like the Hori hori but hadn’t been able to find one. Can you tell me where to get one?
I thought that Martini was Vermouth! I know, you are not English!
Anne Beckes says
I have far too many “volunteer” plants that would benefit from this tool!!
Jan Holmes says
I would LOVE, LOVE, LOVE to have this for use in my flower beds!
Mary Lou Mallendick says
Could have used this yesterday when I was trying to balance my plus sized body on a shovel to divide some potted hostas. Wasn’t very effective and I ended up planting it whole. I’m lucky I didn’t end up in the ER. LOL!
Gretchen says
Oh how I’d love to win this!! I had a very well used one – until a “friend” borrowed it and managed to not give it back before she moved out of town. This tool really WORKS.
Bonnie Chase says
Hi Kevin,
It would thrill me so much to win the hori-hori knife. I live in Georgia and the weeds are abundant this year. Along with weed digging, I would probably also use the knife in my hobby of digging for treasure. It would be a great accessory to my metal-detecting. Thks.
Becky says
Would love to try this
Annie says
Would love to have a Hori Hori for the pesky weeds that grow at the elementary school where I volulunteer. This is a great tool!
Carol Hanson says
Hi Kevin,
love your site and posts. I’d use this on the many many thistles that have appeared everywhere this year. and the dandelions and the burdock and the wild licorice and the etc. LOL I’m not!!
Cindy says
Now that I’m retired I am reworking my yard & gardens to clean up years of neglect! The Hori-Hori would be so helpful in cleaning out all the deep-rooted weeds. Would LOVE to have one!
Mary says
Hi Kevin
Have seen this tool in New Zealand too, would be great in my garden to rid myself of pesky dock weeds. They seem to have a rooting system that goes to China!!!! Mary
Laura Redmond says
Kevin,
You make my Sundays!!!!
Janel says
This Hori Hori would be so helpful in our garden and flower beds!
Elizabeth Coley says
Ah So! Martini virgin here, so not know if martini should or should not be vermouth-less! But, maybe Hori-Hori can have one with me so I can be educated! After that, he can join me in takin all that pesky weeds of out my potted garden….plants that I can’t put in the ground since I’m in between houses…. 🙁
Cynthia says
I would love to have it!!! My dogs try to help (I have one relentless unappologetic digger for adoption) but this would help me a lot!!!
Love your site!
kim says
Dear Kevin,
I think using the hori hori to pull weeds while having a martini would be ideal. LOL
San says
I would like to have a spiritual experience with the Hori Hori and the weeds in my yard!
Sharmaine Ceballos says
Hori Hori + creeping jenny = all gone
I just hate creeping jenny! I try and try and can’t seem to get a handle on it!
OR Suz says
Hori me! My cheap POS just broke in half!
Linda says
Kevin: Would use this most special tool in my flower beds, wild area, and garden for sure. If it works for you, I know it is a good thing. BTW, your milk/water solution for rust on rose bushes works fabulously and it is much appreciated, as are you. Thank you!
jackie Abend says
I left a message a while back but did not get an answer. I wanted to know about using vinegar to kill garden pests. I read that you can use vinegar but I also know vinegar can kill plants.
Can you kill garden pests with vinegar and what is the dilution?
Sandi says
Come to me Nori Nori!
Cheri says
I’m not one to do much gardening, but a lot of that has to do with the fact that I don’t have the right tools to make doing so very productive. I’d love to have this tool that would cut the roots when I’m trying to dig out vicious plants that invade my pretty flower beds.
Martha says
I would love to win this tool and try it! Thank you!
Lesli says
What a Cool Tool!
Jack L says
Looks like it would work better than the tool I currently use. If I don’t win I might consider buying one.
Michala says
This tool looks just awesome… Pick me please, it would fit just perfect around my garden… The dandelions are just massive numbers this year, neither the hens nor we can catch up with them… Sorry my lousy english 😉
Tomas and Traci says
We have been getting outside on the weekends with our three children to work in our flower gardens , and having enough tools for everyone is always a challenge. We would love to have the Hori Hori, what a great tool! As for a good Martini, definitely with Vermouth, and onion and stuffed olives. Thank you!
ArtistryFarm says
So neat to see designs of highly effective tools being shared around the globe! Thanks for sharing…
Dana Hutchinson says
I could really use this tool. My daughter just bought me 2 hand shovels and trust me, now I know why they only cost a buck…so cheap I bent both handles,ugh 🙁 I still have 6 flats of vinca’s to plant (up & down my sidewalk between hostas) and my second veggie garden yet to do, but the weather is not cooperating today. Would totally put it to good use. Oh and I would add vermouth 😉
Kacy says
It’s a lovely evening for sitting on the porch and sipping – I’ll have wine, you go for your martini! See where I plan to put the spiral herb garden?!
LGoldberg says
Haiku for Hori (and Martinis)
Bright, shiny and sharp
O, Hori Hori! Diggy
for weeds whilst I sip.
Michelle says
Looks like it would do a wonderful job!
Liz Stadieczko says
Kevin, I sure could use a Hori Hori knife in my garden. Thanks for sharing!
theresa wega says
grandma theresa needs all the help i can get……
Heike says
Oooooh nice giveaway 🙂 I’d love to win this hori hori knife. Maybe this will take care of the recurring pokeweeds in my flowerbeds.
Perta Sennott says
This is my absolute favorite garden tool! It is right up there with my big trusty potato fork. If only I could stop losing it in the detritus! I recommend the winner, in case it is not me, paint the handle bright red! Thanks, Kevin, for your lovely columns.
MaryZ says
I love your site and your ideas! My first time winter planting is coming along famously!
Deb Jones says
Hi Kevin,
Since gardening time is early morning here in Arizona, the hori hori tool would go nicely with my hot cup of jo. 🙂
beth lanzi says
Wow! looks like just what I need.
Denise in NJ says
I’m thinking the blade edge would be useful when dividing plants.
Cathy Schutzenhofer says
Love your posts and emails weekly!! Have a very large garden this tool would come very handy in!!
florrieusa says
OOh what a great looking tool. Dock is one of the banes of my gardening struggles. Would love to have on of these!!
Marilou says
Dear Kevin,
I would use that Hori Hori knife where ever I found a weed intruding on my planned garden.
Sincerely,
Marilou
Karen says
Looks like a very unique tool that would be very handy in the garden. Have a Great Week!
M Brown says
I need this tool. I pulled weeds all day!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
rebecca firestone says
would love a Hori Hori so I call it Mr Diggy Diggy too as my daughter says my Japanese leaves a lot to be desired. As far as the martini, my hubby says it depends how it’s applied.
Kathleen says
This might work great on asparagus fern, which if you don’t get all the grape like roots, it multiplies like crazy. I’ll have to google the name or look for it in the stores. Thanks!
Eugene F. Ramatowski says
Grreatly appreicate the opportunity to have an excellent gardening tool
thanks
gene
Cecilia says
Any tool that’ll make gardening easier is a tool for me.
Julie B says
I love your reviews, Kevin; they’re much more succinct (and better illustrated) than those in most garden publications. Thanks for sharing your experiences with us!
Christina Pearson says
Martinis are definitely better with vermouth!
Jen E. says
Thanks for sharing! I would use this to dig up all of the weeds that my neighbor has let grow through our fence. While it won’t be large enough to cut down the weeds that have grown as large as trees, it will help me keep on top of the problem (especially since they are threatening to overtake my garden box filled with lettuce and argula!).
Jen E. says
*arugula — not sure what argula is, but it doesn’t sound appetizing
Kathy says
Hi Kevin………….thanks for a great website! I could use the Hori Hori. Anything to make weeding and digging easier. Can you dig it? LOL.
Jo-Ann Z says
I had a friend stop by today and I had my “Hori-Hori” knife in my hand. I asked her if she had one of these and she said no, but was intrigued and wondered how I used it. I use it for all kinds of weeds, planting annuals, some veggies and works great for splitting perennials.
It is my favorite garden tool and I’m always telling someone about it. They make great gifts for your gardening friends….they will thank you everytime they use it!
cathy sullenss says
i enjoy your newsletter, your pictures and i’d enjoy your gardening tool…thanks! smile…greetings from the smoky mnts of east tn…
Joanne B says
I think this would be a great tool for dividing plants like grasses that have been left in the same spot too long. Thanks!
joe barbagallo says
A martini without the vermouth is dry and with the vermouth it is a wet martini, so it totally depends on your taste.
Dottie Broersma says
What a great tool! Would be a great help for weeding.
Pam says
My vote is sans the vermouth, go with shaken over ice
and we can use my new hori hori to pit some olives and stuff with
blue cheese, then let’s go harvest some weeds.
Loving your blog!
Patti Martin says
I bought one of these once-upon-a-time for my husband…..he’s been gone more than five years. I still miss him……and I can’t find the hori-hori……Love your posts, Kevin…..Thank You!
Susy says
I’ve got too many wild onions, sure would love the tool that easily removes them!
Shannon Rivera says
I would love to diggy diggy with one of these. I so love the newsletter. Also I don’t drink martini’s. LOL
Thank you for your insight and idea.
Barb Kehrein says
I would love to win a hori-hori! After working in the yard and garden for the last 2 weeks, I would welcome this addition!
Trisha Grant says
My poor little aluminum Dollar Store trowell broke yesterday. Boo hoo. Now to upgrade to this lovely hori hori to diggy diggy would make me so happy happy. So PLEASE picky picky me!!!!!!
ann says
I think this would be just what this newly handicapped gardener would love to own!
cindy says
I was just complaining to my husband about how badly I need a new trowel-and this would be even better! I’ve never seen the weeds this bad already-I really need this!
LisaS says
I would love to win this Hori Hori! I have lots of thistles to get out of the ground.
Heather says
dandelions beware!!!
Marcia says
Sounds like a great tool to have for dividing perennials as well! Hope I get lucky!!
Linda says
Wow, what a neat knife. I have so many uses I can’t begin to list them all. By the way, my martinis are very relish without vermouth.
Janice says
I’m a beginner and gardening is my retirement hobby. This Hori Hori knife would be very helpful! I have dandelions and a new weed that hase very long roots with tubers attached. I dig dig dig!
Cara says
Dividing hostas to fill out my shade garden and to tackle the dandelions that are all over the yard!
Lynda B says
I inflicted myself with river rock lined garden beds surrounding my house and yard. They are my “sanity” after crazy days at work. Your tool looks like it would make light work of my least favorite part of gardening, weeding. Thank you for your entertaining and helpful page.
Heather Andersen says
I think this would be fantastic for getting those stubborn weeds out of my yard. They are evil little buggers but I would rather get them out with my own hands than use all kinds of poison.
Conny says
would be awesome to win such a wonderful Hori-Hori Tool, my mirror just broke and my husband will not allow me to buy a new one, he says we better spend the money for the garden… 🙂
sharon says
Lots of comments, better odds than lottery tho.
I NEED a hori hori knife, weeds are consuming my backyard.
Thanks for the opportunity to win one.
Love this websiter bythe way.
Claudia says
I would say that a very Dry Martini!
2 or 3 drops of vermouth just to burn the ice on a tall Martini glass pitcher, start spinning the ice with your beautiful Hori Hori and as soon as the Ice start melting, remove the water just to leave the scent of vermouth.
Inmediately pour a martini glass of Bombay Gin over the burned ice with vermouth, spin it twice (again with your Hori Hori tool) and serve it with to olives…
You’ll love how the martini glass will become tarnished.
Salud!
PS I usually prepare a Dry Martini with a tall spoon, since I don’t have a Hori Hori tool. But I can imagine what a perfect Dry Martini could be…
Jensofunky says
Loved your reflection 🙂
Janet says
WOW what a tool. Sure could use one of these, got lots of weeds
Rosalinde Weber says
Wonderful looking tool! A great improvement on the piece of junk I presently call my “diggy diggy.” You always find such interesting things . As a side note, I have tried several of your recipes and they have been sensational. Many thanks for your hard work on this site. It’s a treat to visit.
Paula Y says
Oh yeah, this would be a really good addition to my “equalizer” tools to tame my property! Way to go Kevin!
Deb owen says
Hi! I would be delighted to have this new tool to use in my garden! I spend a lot of time outside its something I would really enjoy! Thanks!
Mary Hicks says
I just started preparing for a container garden and the hori hori looks like the perfect tool for weeding and transplanting starter plants.
Dee Wood says
As always, enjoying reading your writings. I would love to be the fortunate recipient of a Hori Hori knife. Alas, a Mojito made with white rum and fresh mint from my garden would be my druther over a martini, my brother would argue that Grey Goose shaken very very well with a twist of lemon would be much more suitable for the garden. Keep writing and gardening….gardening means there is always hope for the morrow.
bj folk says
Mr.Hori Hori’s “shine” could also be used to scare away the birds pecking at my garden seed!
Tom Mann says
This would be great to help remove the wandering Vinca that has taken over one of our larger garden beds. Thanks for the chance at winning this great tool. Good luck to all!
Sheila A says
Hi Kevin, this year you taught me to Winter Sow… & wow what a success!!! My little seedlings are in the ground… clothed in some good rich compost & trying to remain strong among the weeds that are thriving too. 🙂 Once again, thank you Kevin for sharing what you’ve learned with all of us. Sundays are a treat for us. We look forward to what you are going to post next. Warmly! -Sheila 🙂
Ursula H says
I would love to win this! I have been working on weeding, and it’s been nothing but tap roots this year! Love your site, as always , Kevin 🙂
– Ursula
Sue N says
Lots of tap roots in my garden this year. Been using a roofing hammer.
Audrey says
I am a Mastergardener… so I work in a lot of public gardens. I cannot garden without getting dirty from head to toe. Needless to say I am pretty scare looking to the public… think what I would look like if I was yielding a Hori Hori knife also….
I have never seen one of these knives… but I have heard of them…. at classes where gardeners talk about there favorite gardening tools… the Hori Hori always comes up. This is a wonderful item to be giving away.
Laurie S. says
I would love to use the Hori knife to clean up my weedy garden beds.
Thanks! Laurie
Paula says
Want it. Need it. Gotta have it. If you please.
JamieK says
This looks like a fabulous tool to have around!
LJ says
Is a martini better with or without vermouth?
A martini is a very civilized cocktail, and the civilized always honor the social niceties; so, a martini is better with the barest smudge of vermouth.
Carla says
Wow, with a tool like this, I would look like a professional gardener. That would be a good thing.
Ana Lyons says
This tool would be so helpful with the huge landscaping project I’m working on right now… hope I win it!! 🙂
Deb says
It is amazing! Yes, I would love to have one!
Deb
Lori O. says
Love your website, really appreciated your writing on eliminating weeds with Vinegar awhile back really worked and so I need to do that again. I love that you are bringing back healthy gardening, thank you.
Judy H says
I always need extra tools for the garden, I do not have this one.
Thanks,
Judy
Mary Beth says
I could really use this weapon in my ongoing battle against dandelions! I’ve almost given up at this point :-0
Barb Polski says
I have some very stubborn vines and weeds that I would love to try that on!!
Katherine Werner says
I’ll be this tool works even better than my 3 digging Dachshunds – Henri, Sherman and Oscar, too! Woof-Da! I love your newsletter! xo
Barb R says
I just might make the entry cut-off by a hair. I would love to win the hori-hori.
In any case, I wanted to share that I cannot live without my hori-hori. It is, hands down, the most versatile and useful gardening tool. I would love another, because I am quite capable of putting down a tool and not being able to see it again for a while – even though I’ve painted my handles bright colors. I think I many need to resort to tracking microchips.
Love, love your blog, Kevin.
Terri Gildea says
Using a Hori-Hori to clear & maintain my garden plots would prevent the idea of Hari-Kari when the marauding weeds attempt a takeover! And then, to enjoy sweet victory with a chilly Prosecco in hand……heaven!!!
Joyce Brennan says
Wonders of wonders! That looks like a tool that would work on the dandelions that thrive in our clay (cement) soil! Manage to end up with 1/2 of the tap root if I’m lucky.
Carol Hargis says
This tool would help me remember my mother better! In the 60’s, after dinner, she would go out with a Gerber steak knife to attack the dreaded dandelions. Always with a rye & soda or a cigarette in the other hand, she would sit on the lawn and jab at the base of each plant. There would be a neat pile by dusk. I’m sure the diggy diggy does a better job.
Angelique Lloyd says
Ahhh….I have a hole in my gardening tool collection, that would be filled very nicely by a Hori Hori tool 🙂
Lindsay says
This looks like a high-quality tool. I’ve had a hard time finding good quality tools that won’t bend, rust, or flat-out break. This one makes weeding look almost fun! 🙂
Tracy Sbresny says
Hori Hori my Honey has weeding to do!!!!
Diane Kratz says
I don’t drink so I can’t answer your martini question, but I can tell you I would like to rid my flowerbeds of weeds. This looks like the tool for the job. Thank you for your generosity!
Texas Belle says
I have wanted one of these FOREVER! Thank you so much for your generous offer – I will think of you each time I dig out some nut grass or other interesting weed!
Chuck Rasmussen says
That tool looks AMAZING.
Kay says
I’ve got a similar tool and absolutely love it! It is so useful in so many ways. A second one would be great to have as I often don’t garden alone. 🙂
Cherish says
Great tool! Would love to have it! 🙂
Helen says
I have lots of errant things growing that I would love to attack with Mr. Hori Hori ! He would be put to good use!
Mary says
This appears to be the perfect tool for digging out pesky weeds that are planted firmly in tree roots!
Melissa says
Oh, I could have used this when I was trying to get a clump of Centaurea montana out of a gravel walkway over the weekend. I didn’t think the roots could hold on to gravel, but I was wrong!
Samantha says
How have I never heard of this handy tool before now?! This looks great!
Lisa says
Oh wow! I need one of these so badly! I have lots of dandelions and tough grass that needs digging out.
Carol says
I want one! But with 991 previous entries, its a slim to none chance!
Terry Z says
I could use this for my second hobby — metal detecting/treasure hunting!
MaryAnn Quinn says
Never had a martini until about a month ago and it was delish – don’t think it had vermouth in it but it was different and citrus-y. Would love the hori hori tool for my gardens! Keep those photos coming – I’m enjoying every one.
Carol says
opps 992 🙂
John says
Love the insight your site provides. Follow it whenever I can. I’d use this tool in my small vegetable garden.
Annette Cooke says
Would love this hori hori!
Michelle Hoelscher says
our compost didn’t get hot enough this past year — thus our garden beds are full of beautiful grass 😉 however, I’d love to have this tool to dig it up! Great site, great info and love your facebook page!
Kip Morrissette says
My 81 (almost 82) year old husband takes pride in our lawn and a weed drives him nuts. Please remove his ‘weed stress’ and surprise him with this Hori Hori tool for Father’s Day. He can dig out the weeds while I sip a Dirty Tanqueray (that is stored in freezer) Martini (no vermouth) and cheer him on. 🙂
Barbara Zakrzewski says
I really could use that tool to get rid of the wild honeysuckle that is growing up through all my shrubbery. I keep trying to pull out the roots, but it keeps coming back.
Kellie says
BUT of course you must use vermouth. This would be a wonderful tool so I can transplant Salal and Oregon Grape.
Lisa Mitchell says
I’d be happy to enjoy a nice martini with vermouth after using this tool all day!
Jeanne \ says
I have roots galore in my front yard (from having 2 oak trees on my small property), which I’d love to spiffy up by planting some nice flowers and plants. I used a plastic trowel a while back and it was horrible, I couldn’t cut through the roots. So I haven’t done a thing for a couple years now. I’m sure the hori hori will slice through them easily.
Laura says
I would love to win this tool. I have an old home and lots of gardens with plenty of weeds. The thistles will not stand long against me with this tool in hand! And, since it’s just a little scary-looking, it will garner some respect in da ‘hood. 😉
Lea Shelton says
What a nifty tool! I’d love to have one!
Cherylann McGuire says
What a great sounding tool – I’d would like one 😉
Dorothy Hubbard says
I like my Martinis Dry and this tool would make my weeding a lot easier.
LaTrice says
One can never have too many awesome gardening tools.
Debbie Jennings says
What a cool tool….thanks so much for introducing it to us.
Annie says
This is quite a tool! Funny, mine disappeared recently. I think the tree cutter really liked it. Tiz on my list to get a new one. And the perfect martini is gin with vermouth!!
Roe says
I’d love to have this tool to weed out the wild onions, dandelions and those ugly conical-shaped orange mushrooms.
Mary M-S says
Kevin, how cool, you have over 1,000 comments – cool for you, maybe not so cool for all of us who want to win your fabulous hori hori tool. I wouldn’t have recognized what a great tool it is if you hadn’t photographed it at work. Since you so graciously provided us with a photo of burdock not only do I now know it’s probably in my yard, but I now realize it’s perfect for dealing with yellow dock, which has become invasive, pervasive and soooo difficult to remove – even for cooking purposes. Anyway, I’ve got my fingers crossed.
Debbie Anderson says
Never heard of this! Want it! Looks amazing!!
Kim Miller says
I have heard of this. Thanks for the demo. My weeds are going to hate this tool..
Karyn Harrington says
Every gardner needs a hori hori! I’m surprised I haven’t seen it around. By tomorrow, I will be searching for one online while sipping on a dirty martini!
Betty M says
Thanks for a great website.I am really enjoying it and all the useful information, as gardening is what I enjoy doing.
Cathy says
Well, don’t condemn me, but I’d love to tackle the poppies and lily-of-the-valley that have taken over too much garden… This knife looks like it just might do the job!
Naomi Shelton says
Ooooh, would I ever love one of those hori-hori knives! I would attack that horrid crown vetch that has taken over my front flower bed. I can just feel the satisfaction as I assualt the nasty stuff! Hack, hack, hack!
suzy smith says
Hiya, Kevin! I’d love to be the proud owner of a hori-hori tool. I live in central Texas, and what with the drought & the wildfires we had 18 months ago, the sticker burrs have taken over! Very difficult to eradicate because of the rhizomes. The hori-hori tool would beat them, I believe.
Helen Leeper says
I was just thinking there has to be a better way to tackle some of these weed problems. I would love this tool.
Riversana says
My favorite tool is something similar that I got at Lowe’s, called a 7-in-one or something like that. I can only imagine how much more I’d enjoy using the real thing! I’ve been weeding and planting this week, the hori-hori is designed for my life!! hehe
Jess says
This would make my attack on rampant bittersweet much more effective.
Stella Clark says
I am trying to dig little weeds out of my pond area, and this looks like the perfect tool. I usually don’t enter things but, but this looks too cool to pass up for a chance.
Jan Barber-Hemphill says
Would love this. Is it the same as a soil knife?
Barb Schultz says
Looks like a winner for our ever-expanding gardens! Fighting the same weeds in clay soil. looks like a great digger. Thanks for the opportunity!
Dawn says
What a fantastic find! I would love to have such a handy, utilitarian tool for work in my garden.
Thank you for the opportunity to win such a wonderful tool.
D. White says
I don’t mean to yell, but I WANT ONE OF THESE!!!!!!!! I saw this gadget in one of my magazines and now I really, really, really want one. It is on my list of must haves for this Summer.
Suzanne says
I’d love to have this tool for dandelions. I use the leaves for green shakes and dry the roots for winter tea use.
Chaz says
The Japanese have designed some great tool! I have a double edged saw with a narrow flexible blade made for cutting flat on the floor and such things, the blade bends so you don’t have to scrape your knuckles to use it, works great.
This tool looks equally clever and useful. I’ll have to look for one if I don’t win this!
Thanks!
MJ says
So many weeds this year, I can’t keep up. That tool looks like it would come in handy.
Karen Carpenter says
I enjoy a vodka martini with 3 large green olives and a few drops of olive juice. I never use vermouth in a martini but I do cook with it all of the time, especially in veal dishes.
The hori hori knife looks like a great tool to have.
Carol Dobbins says
Wouldlove to have this tool! If it’s as great with burdock as you say, I could use 2!!!!!!!! 🙂
Laura Pinto-Nguyen says
Oh my goodness! What an amazing tool. I just started my very first garden this year and have winter sown a lot of good veggies which are coming up pretty nicely. I don’t have a tool like this yet and have done everything with my hands and kitchen tool…I know, don’t laugh too hard but seriously I have had to improvise since I don’t know much about all the tools I need.
Yvette Prayor says
I’m glad I’m here to put in my name in for that beautiful knife. I’m a new gardener, BECAUSE of this site.
Sheri Hagwood says
A friend recommended this tool to me years ago and I never got around to getting one. It would be great to win one!
Diana Gumas says
The hori hori tool looks awesome! I was in a serious car accident in mid February and one of the things I am able to do as I continue to recover is work in the garden. Unfortunately, my strength is not what it was prior to the accident. So, here’s hoping that I will be the lucky recipient of this great tool as it would be a big help to me to make digging more manageable. Thank you for considering me!
Betty G says
Let it be me… maybe today is my Lucky Day! Got lots to remove from the ground. 🙂
Katherine L says
I like to swirl a little vermouth in the bottom of my martini glass before adding some nice chilled Stoli.
Carol H. says
Kevin, I love your ideas, your recipes, your home and your landscaping. I like Beagles, too. I would have this tool on my belt always, if I win. Thanks!
Jan Bach says
Looks like a very useful tool. Would love to win it!
Leslie Mc says
As a mirror Hori Hori would not do as well as my garden which is a perfect reflection of me!
I would desire greatly a Hori Hori to work on my reflection!
Deb from Wisconsin, aka trillium says
I’m always happily amazed at the number of people who respond and enter your giveaways and follow your fantastic newsletter! I learn so much from you.
Cheryl in Oklahoma says
Hey Kevin! Thank you so much for all your great tips and recipes. I am looking forward to diggy- diggy -ing 😉
Karen says
There are a lot of folks ahead of me, but I cannot win the hori hori if I do not enter, Any tool that will make weeding easier might encourage me to do somore often.
Laticia says
My fiance has been wanting one of these for AGES!
monica says
Hey, Kevin! I just completed the Master Gardener’s course and am now working on my 30 hours of volunteering!! I would love to be able to add the Hori Hori to my very small collection of gardening tools!!!! P.S. I LOVE your recipes!!
Carole says
Please include me in your random drawing! I’ve never seen a hori-hori before, but it sure looks like it would make quick work of the undesired plants in my garden.
Julie Bartz says
Even if I don’t win this, I think I’ll have to buy one anyways…looks awesome!!!
Colleen Guido says
I would love this to separate some orange thyme…trying to get some ground cover established.
Susan Ramirez says
I would love to have this tool!..
penny says
I would love to win this tool because it could help me because it is hard for me to move because of my spinal cord injury It would help me to plant my flowers and bulbs it would also help me to remove the weeds that i just dont want in my yard thank you kindly penny
Marie4SoL says
Kevin,
I like dirty martinis. How do you like your martini – with or without vermouth? And do you prefer sweet or dry?
Cheers,
Marie
Phyllis Scheeren says
My dandelion digger only gets half the weed,half of the time. Your tool is wider and I would love to try it out. My favorite tool is a hoe with a wide but small triangle head. You pull it toward you and it dives under the soil cutting off weeds. Or push it forward and the front of the triangle cuts. It’s an older skiffle hoe.
Donna says
I sure could have used this knife last week when I was dividing some plants!
Ellen says
I now live in my parent’s home of 30 years and every time I walk out to do gardening I have to ask myself…”Did my parents just wake up one morning and say “Hey let’s plant some trumpet vines!” I am constantly digging these vines out of my garden and this tool would be excellent! Thanks for the opportunity to win one!
Lorraine says
i am in my garden constantly! Love it! But I have this horrid weed, snake grass, that haunts me….Maybe this tool will be the answer! I’ve tried everything to no avail!!
TNMeemaw says
I would love to have this – I would certainly give it a workout! Weeds galore! Surely I’ll be your winner at some point! Enjoy your website!
diali says
I wish I had opened this email earlier. I like your site!
Karen says
Would love to have this for a weedy shady area of my garden. Thanks for a great blog, Kevin.
Take care,
KR
Fran Krueger says
Kevin, thanks for the information. I have a horde of weeds, especially dandelions, quaking in the yard as I read about their imminent removal with this tool. Thank you so much for bringing it to my attention, and illustrating its proper use. Good job!
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Anita says
I’ve wanted this tool since I read about it. Would love to win one! I have grape muscari all throughout my lawn. Try to dig them up there and transplant. If you miss one little bulb, they just grow back.