Last updated on March 13th, 2015
WOW — over 800 entries for this giveaway! Here’s the winning entry, as selected by the little number generator at Random.org:
Comment #81 from Susan: Favorite Joan Crawford? “Mildred Pierce”, of course! Here in Idaho, we’re finally getting some much needed rain in the lowlands…
Congratulations, Susan! To collect your prize, just send me a note.
THIS WEEK, because spring is around the corner…because our gardens will be revealed once the snow finally melts…and because I think you could use a gardening gift right about now…I’m giving away a Hori Hori knife. More about this brilliantly-designed weeding tool, and how you can win one in a random drawing:
I wrote about the hori hori knife last May. Here’s a recap:
I RECENTLY PURCHASED A HORI HORI KNIFE. I’m talking about 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 you can attach to your belt. When you think to wear one.
You might like to have one of these weeding tools, too. And that’s why I’ve purchased another Hori Hori to give away in a random drawing.
To Enter:
To enter the drawing, just scroll down to the end of this post and leave a comment. Say anything you’d like. Perhaps you can tell me how the tool would be useful to you. Or, tell me the name of your favorite Joan Crawford flick. (If you think Ms. Crawford and gardening have nothing in common, read this post.)
Already have a Hori Hori knife? Enter the drawing anyway. Just think of what a great gift it would make for a plant-minded friend.
The Rules
One comment per person, please.
Enter soon! This giveaway expires on Wednesday, March 5, 2014. As always, I’ll use the number generator at Random.org to select a winner. The winner’s name will be announced on Thursday, March 6, 2014, so be sure to check back!
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carol says
This looks like a cool gardening tool. We use the “Cobrahead” which is great for weeding and getting the roots out. It took me a while to get used to using it, but now I love it.
I was glad to see the Robin on the crabtree, though at first it looked like a Cardinal. Here in Zone 5 with 4 inches of fresh powder and 0 degrees tonight, we haven’t seen any Robins. When they return, then I know spring is around the corner but my other birds are a delight to watch. I did see 10-day forcast for 50 degrees a week from Monday, but will see.
Debbie says
I’d love to win a hori hori because I am always looking for tools to make weeding easier! Thank you for the chance to win!
badger gardener says
Would love a new tool in the war on weeds.
Courtney says
I bought myself a Hori Hori last year and it quickly became my favorite tool for the garden. I’d love to win one as a present for my sister who just bought a new house and will be starting a garden this spring.
Suzanne says
I’m ready for spring planting: peas, potatoes, lettuce, spinach…the hori hori tool would make weeding and harvesting a piece of cake.
Janease says
I love your blog and have been following it the last several months. I am on my first attempt at your winter seed planting. We are getting sleet and snow today but since it is now March I am getting ready to plant more seeds in my milk jugs. I would love to win the Hori Hori Knife to use in my garden this spring since we are expanding our raised beds to grow more of our own food, I know it would come in handy. Thanks for the great ideas and pictures!
Roe says
Kevin,
Id love to have this knife. It would be so useful to dig out that onion grass in my flower beds.
Also, I made lamb chops with the rosemary mint marinade. Oh, so good!
Thanks for all your great recipes.
Thames says
Well I could certainly use one for my endless battles with dandelions. My current weapon is a large screwdriver. This looks more effective.
Kathy says
I have been wanting one of these tools. I like to dig up dandelions in the yard instead of spraying them with weed killer. I have a pet and grandchildren so I try to not use anything that could hurt them. This would make it so much easier than using a dandelion fork.
Liza says
Hori hori!
Love it.
Karen P says
Have a new garden and the weeds are daunting! Would live to have this great tool!
Jane says
Oooooh, a Japanese tool. I’m hoping that my raised beds will do well this summer and I could use this handy weeding tool for sure. Thanks for your generosity.
Hsin says
Weeds won’t stand a chance with that tool!
Carol says
Who wouldn’t want a tool with such a naughty name?!
Lori Savoie says
What a great tool to have. I’m a gardening tool junkie. Would love to add this one to my collection. Always looking for weeds in my flower/vegetable garden to pull out. Love your website. Look forward to seeing it every Sunday morning.
Jane says
Oooooh, a Japanese tool. I’m hoping that my raised beds will do well this summer, and weeding wouldn’t hurt. Thanks for your generosity.
steph says
I had a similar one and used it for years until it was lost. wonderful tool!
Selma says
Robins…harbinger of spring! Well, maybe waiting for the snow to melt before trying out this great new gardening tool! Can’t wait to start getting the weeds with this! LOVE your site recipes and gardening…look forward to every post! Thanks!
Lisa Connolly says
I would love a new weeding tool. I live in Colorado where the soil is clay and the summer heat makes weeds cling to the ground beneath. Anything to make this job easier would be so appreciated!
Louise Brouillette says
This would be great for digging out those stubborn weeds with loooooong roots!
Pat says
I would love to win the hori hori.
Thank you
Roxanne says
Hi
I’d love to try that out! It looks like a great tool for easier weeding.
Karen says
Would love a tool that seems so useful. I do have a flower garden and of course a lawn where this would be great.
Caroline says
I love my Hori Hori, Kevin – if I win this one, I’ll have an excuse to put my family to work out in the garden! 🙂
Phyllis says
I guess this would be a JC approved tool. Loved “her” tomato weave comments
Amy says
Hi Kevin! Hori hori has been on my wish list for past year. I love my other japanese tools. I look forward to trying out hori hori on the dasterdly Lesser Celandine that dwells in the weak spots of my lawn, around its border with my neighbor’s ignored, weed-infested property. Do you have that nasty Ranunculus ficaria (Ficaria verna)?
Joni Davis says
After -24 below (actual temperature) last night and losing power for 5 hours – I am sooooo ready to dig in the dirt! At this point I’m not sure when we will see dirt, but I will be ready!!! Barehanded if necessary!
Laura Redmond says
Presently, my dog Harriet takes care of most of the weeding.she promptly finds where I have been gardening and turns it all over for me. She’s such a help;). Each year brings an increase in container gardening.
Julie says
What a fabulous tool. Would love to add it to my arsenal!
Jodie Venturelli says
What a wonderful tool! I’d love to win it to use in the garden. I enjoy all your posts and recipes Kevin!
Nancy VanDyke says
It looks like it would be of great help in my huge flower beds.
Patti Panuccio says
The Women. One tool so many uses.
Beth says
I’m so ready to be out in the garden again! A new tool would be wonderful!
Beth
Cathy Whitley says
This must be why Japanese gardens are so perfectly amazing! I made the mistake of planting asparagus fern outside when I first moved to Florida, and now I dig it up with the claw end of a hammer – this would probably be easier! Arigatou gozaimasu
Sherlie Magaret says
It is almost 10 AM here and it is still minus 3. This is southwest Iowa! Where is spring? We have had flocks of robins everyday this last week at our livestock tank pond. Spring cant be far away. (I hope) We are so tired of this cold. We have used your newspaper trick for weeding and it works wonderfully. We are going to try your Joan Crawford trellis for greenbeans this summer and now I need one of these weeders. Thank you for your most interesting blog. Now off to read about your Naan, I think I want to make it today, it would go nicely with soup. 🙂
Cherylann McGuire says
I am completely revamping my garden this spring – hopefully Ms. Crawford’s tomato staking method will work for me!
Elizabeth Fox says
I love that it translates to diggy-diggy!
Susan M. says
Sure beats the heck out of using a screw driver which thus far as been my tool of choice for getting those pesky dandelions out of our wonderful clay yard!
Awesome giveaway — thanks so much for the opportunity!
Sheree Ashapa says
I think this would be a good bulb planting tool as well – the measurements are so easy to read on it.
Donna Clary says
The Hori Hori has been on my Amazon wish list since last year when you recommended it. I appreciate that it is multipurpose and compact. Like a Swiss Army without the bulk and weight.
Thanks for the opportunity.
Kate says
We have a lot of snow here as well as frid air here in Montana. Springs seems a bit far away. Thank you for sharing your recipe!
Jann Walter says
MISSOURI IS BREAKING RECORDS IN MARCH 10 TO 30 DEGREES BELOW IN MARCH?!?! SNOW & SLEET SHOCKING.
Mary says
This would be so perfect for me. I’m always digging weeds but getting only part of the roots.
Bev says
I just saw this tool online a few days ago–I could really use one to help rid my garden of weeds and do other tasks! Thanks!
Linda King Pruitt says
When you said this Japanese digging tool could also be used as a mirror, it reminded me of thie Japanese folktale, The Mirror. Of course, being a storyteller, almost everything reminds me of a story. Here’s a link to this charming little story. http://www.pitt.edu/~dash/japan.html#mirror
Laurie says
I garden from sitting in my wheelchair and the sharp edges on the hori hori look like they’d make my weeding tasks simpler!
gloria says
Better than herbicide- A real plus in the garden!
Annette Guilfoyle says
Have relocated to SC and starting a new garden. This will be a fun experience as I am teaching my grand children their first gardening lessons. The Hori knife would be so useful as I clear and cultivate old lawn into new garden.
Vicki says
Would love to own one of these because, really…anything that translates to mean “diggy diggy” is clearly a must have item!
abby says
Please Please Please gardening gods and goddesses let me win this beautiful tool !!…As a lifelong gardener , I find my aging hands are making weeding harder and harder…I promise to clean my Hori Hori after each use and put it back in it’s case !!!!
And thanks to you, Kevin for the wonderful website, sharing your home and garden, and the delicious recipes !
D Rich says
Happy Sunday! In our family, the weeding falls to my Husband 🙂 Even though it would cut down on the time his cute bum is in the air, it would definitely minimize lower back pain for him..so I would be willing to sacrifice! 🙂 Thank you for the opportunity to win one!
Abigail says
I would love to have a Hori Hori, I love the name and the utility of the tool. I don’t have one yet but I hope to have the one that comes from you 🙂 I love your blog and read all your post.
Thank You
Edie says
No action yet in my winter sown seed containers but plenty of weed action in my yard! Onions everywhere!
Susan-Marie says
It’s almost 30 degrees, and did my 1st gardening of the season! 30 mins til fingers froze; but, got the budding Hydrangeas properly snipped, and began filling buckets for springtime mulching. Becoming more self-sustaining each year! BTW, have longtime so wanted a hori hori! Thanks, Kevin! Hi, Lily!
Anne says
Happy March, Kevin!
Helga G says
Would love to get one of this. Always “pulling up” wild onions and tough grass, that refuses to budge. The Hori Hori would be a great addition.
Love your recipes, keep them coming. Going to make the Snowshoe Naan tomorrow.
Sounds like we will be snowed in again.
Steve says
A Hori Hori is on my wish list! They have many uses in the garden and in working with bonsai. Thanks for offering such a great gift!
Deborah says
So, things are still frozen solid here. Spring is just around the corner, right?
This tool would be great for planting and weeding.
Jean says
It is Sooo cold here with lots of snow. Can hardly wait to get ou in the garden!
Diane H Hinkle says
I NEED IT BAD! Every time I go out I see weeds or bulbs pushed above the ground by the soil’s heaving and I bend down and start working with my hands. I do a number on my manicured fingernails and Lisa who does them tells me so. This little gadget is badly needed here in East Tennessee. Jonquils are already in bloom and weeds are growing like mad. Help!!!!!
Enid M. says
The community garden just got a great shed, so rather than tossing it into the back of my car, I could store it there when I’m not using it.
Frosty says
Me, Me!! I need this tool!! I moved into a ancient house along the Hudson two summers ago with a beautiful, if wildly unkempt, victorian period garden. Every weekend was “vine-aggedon” but the toughest part was getting out masses of giant burdock in the lawn and all along the perimeter of every flower bed with tap roots as thick as carrots. When I showed local gardeners asking for guidance their advice was “move!” But I persevered and with pulled ever single one out with some kind of a crowbar looking thing from home depot over the course of two years — reseeding patches in the lawn, putting down cardboard boxes in the garden and planting on top. FINALLY, the problem is under control. Only I can spot them now — and when I do, I’m quick on the trigger — or digger. But what you’ve got there looks awesome, so shiny and substantial. Also looks great for planting bulbs. I want it, I want it! I love your website, btw. I want to come over! xxFrosty
Rhonda Strahler says
The Hori Hori would be great to have… I love your witty posts….I should have known you were a singer/musician, you are talented in many ways…
Christina says
This would be so cool to use in my garden !!!
Kris says
Would love to try this in my garden – especially with nasty weeds and maybe for planting bulbs. Looks like a winner to me.
Susy says
I would love to add this wonderful tool to my collection. Cold and snowy in Chicago as well, enough already!
Heather Schlerf says
Oh- I definitely need one of these !!
BrYan says
Thanks as always Kevin for a great place to go…
Suzann S says
I would love to win a hori nori. Thanks for the chance.
Katharine Davis says
Pictures of your garden in snow are lovely. I can’t wait for this winter to end and to start cleaning up the garden and yard. What a fabulous weeding tool! My favorite Joan Crawford film is The Women 🙂
Suzyford says
Hi Kevin,
Would love to have a hori hori. Weeding is a big time consumer for mr . Sounds like a great tool! Thanks for the chance. By the way i have ten milk jugs planted with flower seed in my yard, cant wait.
Frosty says
Sorry for all the typos above!! Too much coffee…
Fernanda Mehta says
Thank you for the giveaway – I will be grateful to see grass again and if there are some weeds there, then I can use this tool to clear them up…
Deborah Spake-Goodnight says
Put some seeds in my little greenhouse last weekend and can not wait to start my gardens. Sounds like a nice tool to dig up the weeds! Love your blog, recipes, and pictures!
sharon says
With another 6″ of fresh fallen snow during the night, i am WISHING for weeds! Or really, anything green will do. Come on spring!!
Gina Borton says
I want to diggy diggy with this awesome new garden tool!! 🙂
Dyhana says
ooh, my gardening mentor swears by these, would love to have one; the sheath would be especially handy. 🙂
Carol in MT says
dreamin’ of a hori hori knife……………..
Laura says
I would love a Hor-Hori. We just bought a new home with no garden. (I know…???) So whatever I use will be getting a workout! Please pick me! 🙂
TJ Moore says
this looks like a very multi-task tool…. long, narrow, sturdy and quick to penetrate the earth and dug out what you are aiming for…. would make life in my garden easier with my arthritic hands…. thank you… 😎
Susan says
Favorite Joan Crawford? “Mildred Pierce”, of course!
Here in Idaho, we’re finally getting some much needed rain in the lowlands (2,000 ft or better) and snow above 5,000 ft. YAY!
I think I’d use this tool to rid some obnoxious garlic chives & dandelions. Also get some stickery weeds in the lawn that can be painful.
Thanks for your site!
linda says
I loved my hori hori. Sadly it disappeared, never to be seen again.
liza says
Hi Kevin! My parents have had a horI hori knife for years and rave about it. I’d love one too!
angela koch says
I would love the hori hori, I do organic gardening with no pesticides or herbicides and dealing with 6 raised garden beds equals many long hours of weed pulling and control, please help me with one to end my back pain!!!!
Helene says
Hi: I live in the NE. For the last two springs I have been taking my tree hibiscus tree out for partial sun, and bringin ti back in for the winter in my four seaon room She blooms throughout the winter. Do others have a tree that blooms continuously? Thanks
andrea says
That would be such a great way to fight thru the crappy clay to get
rid of weeds in my life-long trek to get them all!!!
Bev Hastings says
I have always wanted one of these and it would be great to win one. Love your site.
Angela Willis says
Have been in a gardening slump the past few years… maybe I just don’t have the right tools to make it fun! 🙂
Jackie says
This tool would be so useful to me and I would love to have one!
Bob says
Thanks for the photos Kevin, I’d forgotten how spring looks like!
I liked Possessed (1931) very much, when I was younger 😉
Mary Howe says
I want a hori hori knife so bad!! Spring cannot get here fast enough.
Linda K. says
This would come in so handy in my field of dandelions,.
Amanda Deloff says
Up here near Lake Ontario, it is still snowing and it feels like winter is never going to arrive. The Hori Hori is something I have always coveted. Thanks so much for the giveaway.
Evelyn H. says
The pond is thawing so won’t be long for spring now!
Carol Ann Gregg says
As I looked at the base of the crabapple tree, I saw what will be the first garden chore when the weather warms up – cleaning out the flower bed around the tree. This garden knife would be the exact tool to get that job done. Thanks for offering it at a give away.
Judy A says
Hi Kevin – I love your give-aways. You have the coolest toys! My garden is still sleeping under it’s blanket of snow, but I have my seed packs lined up for some sewing and I am ready to roll. This would be such a great too to have. Best wishes to all like-minded readers!
Patricia Kane says
I have never heard of the Hori Hori knife. Looks interesting, I would love to try it on weeds and other things. I live in Kansas. Plenty of weeds here.
Kara says
Yes, please!
Paula Wolff says
Oh my, where to start on JC movie favorites? I think my fav four are: Mildred Pierce, Whatever Happened to Baby Jane?, West Point, and I Saw What You Did. Anyway, I think the hori hori can do the same terrific job in my yard on the same weeds that you showed in your demonstration–but will have wait until the piles of snow and ice leave–probably by May!
Marsha L. says
I love your site!! It always surprises me all the new things I learn. I do many of the same things you do, such as trying to take pictures of my winter garden. My rose garden with snow covering is one of my favorites. After many years, I love my winter garden, but feel I still need more “ever- greenery”, like boxwood. I tried to root the clippings, but failed. I know I’ll always have weeds, so I’m sure the Hori tool would come in handy.
Holly says
Hurray, it’s raining here in California. Not enough to end our drought, but enough to make the weeds grow like crazy. A hori hori would be perfect here.
Hazel Steenman says
Weeding well is a gardener’s pleasure! The neat and tidy aspect at finish, the knowledge that future weeeds stand not a chance and that the task is accomplished effortlessly…the knowledge that you can see yourself in its mirror-like surface…what more could a gardener want?
Pam Jackson says
Have not heard of a Hori Hori knife but could make good use of one
Thanks
Tana says
Wow… what a neat tool! Looks like it would make lite work out of the dreaded weeding task.
Burdock and Dandelions are a problem around here, too!
Thanks for the insight.
Cindy Griffith says
With a perennial flower bed and a garden a Hori hori would be fabulous!! I have bent numerous shovels, tools trying to remove weeds. With a sedated edged tool, it would cut through scrubby brush or small sasafrass roots. The tool would make weeding easier and helpful instead of a chore that is put off because it is a pain..
Lucy says
This looks a tremendously useful gardening tool – for weeding and other tasks.Please count me in for the giveaway. Can’t wait for the snow to recede and to be able to get started with the garden chores.
Deb owen says
Looks like it would be my go to tool!
Pamala says
I live in Texas in the midst of the “black land” which is more like black clay with some limestone thrown in the mix. I owned a tool similar to the hori hori the blade broke off last summer. This style tool was very useful, so a new one would be wonderful addition to my tool collection. We’ve had a couple of warm days that I’ve been able to start the clean up for spring which has been nice, but I look forward to more, I’m ready to garden.
Carol peterson says
I’d love this knife. The weeds might start quivering in my presence.
Kansas City has more snow and sleet and subzero temperatures but I saw a flock of Robins yesterday, so Spring can’t be far away. There are Robins that live here year round, but many migrate through. Thought I would pass along my sign of hope for Spring.
Dianna Williamson says
I could really use a Hori Hori for the weeds in my garden. Thanks for the chance to win one
Deb A says
“I think the most important thing a woman can have, next to talent of course, is her…” hori hori.
Cathy says
Oh my gosh Kevin! This looks awesome!!!!!!!! I fight my weeds and they seem to win. I think I’ve even heard them laughing at me. I would love to have this garden tool. Thanks, once again for your site and your generosity!
linda says
This would make me happi happi to win.
Gary says
I can dig that.
Sharon says
I could use this tool to dig out the hyacinths that have migrated under my boxwoods. That is if spring ever arrives. The snow is falling yet again. Mildred Pierce is my favorite Joan Crawford movie.
Linda Naiss says
This Hori Hori would make tackling the weeds much easier!
Sue Sifakis says
sure could use this in the garden after ALL This snow goes away !
KaeleyAnne says
We’ll be moving this summer, so my gardening plans are in stasis right now, but I’m sure the Hori Hori will be useful when creating a new garden.
Karen Ennenga says
Been wanting to try this tool of yours since you posted about it last year. Maybe I will be lucky enough to win it this time! 🙂
Dianne Jackson says
We have a WICKED weed here in central California, STAR THISTLE! Im sure it’s from the devil.
Hori Hori would be perfect.
Rosemeri says
What a great tool. I have some seriously tough weeds that I would like to use it on. No snow or rain here this winter until yesterday. A very dry winter which will mean a serious forest fire season if we are not careful. Wish we had some of your snow.
Michelle Mitchener says
I loved my hori- hori- it was lost about 10 years ago during a move and I never replaced it. We’re sitting in a few inches of snow here in Denver, but looking forward to near 60’s all week!
Linda A. Fleming says
This Christmas I gave my daughter a hori hori tool and she told me it was her favorite gift. I would love to tell her I won one. Thank you for the winter photographs of your garden. Our ground here in Connecticut matches yours in New York.
Sharon says
I would use it for wild onion & dandelion. Love your site.
Vickie says
Oh, I can see a game of “Clue” in the making with this nifty garden tool…”Mr. Radish in the Garden with the hori hori.” Would love this garden gadget!!!
Barbara says
I have wanted a hori hori knife for a long time, but have never got around to buying one. Winning would be a treat.
Sheila says
Please?! I’m crossing my fingers.
Robert Meehan says
I have two enemies in my garden areas (such as they are). One is a small group of Canna Lilies that just won’t take a hint. (there are other plants very near so a complete dig out is a last option” and the other is a Wisteria that want’s to take over the world. We also have what’s known locally as “wire grass” but that is an ongoing process of pull, yank, dig, repeat ad nauseum. Plus I just like the idea of using a tool known as a diggy diggy. 🙂 I really enjoy your site and all you do to encourage cooks and gardeners and home decorators.
Patty Z says
As I lay on the couch here in New Jersey, leg in a cast from a slip on black ice (I did fall and could not get up:), yet another blitz of snow threatens to cover the stubborn snowdrops peeping through the ground under the magnolia in the backyard. I was happy to read your bit about not removing all the dandelions…me too!! It’s a big comfort to know we will be “diggy diggy-ing” soon.
Jo-Ann says
This would be perfect for weeding in my raised beds!
Maurine Johnson says
I want!
Sarah Adamson says
I would be so happy happy to diggy diggy with a new Hori Hori.
M Brown says
I use YOUR method of controlling weeds with newspapers and cardboard ( changed my life)
but I can’t put it everywhere so I would love this tool.
Cathy McKenny says
I appreciate the chance to win the Hori Hori knife, but I shall never forgive you for leaving the Snowshoe Naan kneading song stuck in my head…
Linda says
I have been using one of these tools for years and consider the very best all around tool I own. I have it on my list as a gift for my future son-in-law and forgot at Christmas (gardening wasn’t on my mind in the snow) I know you will find it and pruners to be just about all you need.
pam says
it was love at first sight when I saw a friend’s hori-hori! have wanted one ever since.
Anita Efron says
Oh this tool will change my daughter’s life! She has a large front yard that seems to be a perfect spot for wild onions, burdock, dandelions and other weeds to grow and she has tried everything to get rid of the pests. The hori hori is just the thing for her! She has a special birthday coming up in April so this would be a perfect gift!
Lori says
Grand Hotel!
Michael says
It’s 78 here in Texas and the weeds are growing faster than I can got rid of them . This would be a great tool to have.
Sandra says
I could get a lot us use with this wonderful tool!
Elaine Cone says
I just read about the Hori Hori the other day and was intrigued. I wanted to look into what the tool could do and then your email arrived! This is a tool I need to have. I very much appreciate the chance to win one to use with my gardening this year.
Thank you.
Wendy s says
Joan Crawford, not so much. But Bette Davis! “Now, Voyager,” the best. Bu there’s no gardening in it…..
Barbara S. says
Would love one of these tools. I’m so tired of cold and snow and can’t wait to get out into the garden, even to do weeding! Thanks for the chance to win one.
meegan says
Don’t have one of these. Looks awesome. Want one
Laura Johmson says
I could sure use one of these. My old one is not stainless and it is all rusted.
Connie Cochran says
Thunder and sleet here … wonderful weather …. not!
Shawna says
Now that looks like a fabulous addition to a gardening tool kit! You are always so generous Kevin. Thank you for the chance to win!
Jeanne says
Weeds are us, particularly difficult ones. I’d love to win this beautiful tool.
I enjoy your wonderful blog site – thanks.
Shannon says
I love these knives!
Susan says
I NEED ONE!!! The weeds are winning, I have too many gardens!
Lori says
Great tool – would love to have one! Snowing here in PA this weekend – but hopefully spring gets here soon 🙂
Jan says
I also leave a lot of dandelions on my property, not only delicious to eat, but the bees really use them! I can think of a lot of other thing I would use this tool on, though, if Spring ever gets here!
Janet says
Receiving this would definitely make this winter almost a thing of the past. Enough winter, already, in New York’s Columbia County!!!
moyra says
Thank you for the chance to win what looks like a great gardening tool!
Karin says
snowing today -10 Celsius but the long awaited day will come when I can finally work in the garden again . The hori hori looks so clever.
Marcia from Northern Indiana says
Thanks for offering another contest. I didn’t even know this existed. Another 4-5 inches of snow overnight. Managed to attend the Fort Wayne Home and Garden show yesterday. Am soooooo anxious. I put the ice tea maker in the BACK of the cupboard because I may not remember how to make it or drink it when summer finally comes.
Sheila says
I want a hori hori /diggy diggy! I’m new to your site but certain I am falling in love. I cant wait for this snow to go bye bye.
Kathy says
I need hope that winter will end and I can garden again. A new garden tool would certainly cheer me up!
Diane C says
I would love this weeding tool. We don’t use chemicals on our flower/vegetable beds so it would be very useful.
Also, I must add that I love Joan Crawford movies.
Thanks Kevin!
Glenda says
The creeping charlie is winning and at 73 I need a Hori Hori. I wait for Sundays to read your posts. Thank you
Jo says
What a wonderful garden tool! Love the sheath that comes with it.
jean says
I think Joan Crawford would have loved one of these knives as she worked in her garden digging up her dandy lines for her cup of tea and I would love one too. I really enjoy your website, the milk jugs are outside in the snow waiting anxiously for Spring and I’m waiting for your cookbook to come out as I just love your recipes. Will try the naan bread today as it looks yummy. Thanks Kevin for making us all SMILE as it is snowing with a mixture of ice here in Indiana.
Ava says
I always seem to need several tools and find myself leaving them about the yard. Then I waste time trying to find them again. The Hori Hori looks like it would replace several tools and save time looking for the right one. Would love to have one! Thank you, Kevin, for this great giveaway and for all the wonderful knowledge you pass on.
Amanda Wiersma says
Come on spring!! I need to dig in the dirt 🙂
Linda Gattiker says
I would love to win a hori hori, to keep the weeds in line. Thank you for your generosity in this, and other, drawings, Kevin.
Karen Lenker says
I have a lot of weeds that I would like to introduce to a Hori Hori.
Martha says
Hi Kevin I was so excited to get a new trowel for Christmas–an Oxo to be specific–we always think of Oxo as kitchen tools–but here it is! (I have not tried it yet, too much snow.) I would be equally excited to win a Hori Hori knife. Thanks for your great humor!
Terry Zimmerman says
I have several digging tools that I use not only on my raised beds but also metal detecting. This would be a great addition.
Elizabeth says
I almost bought one at the Ct flower show but I had that days spending money aimed at a new pair of snips and an amazing venetian red begonia from the violet barn. I’ve used this knife in thepast to remove a stubbornly attached terra cotta pot as well. They are an amazing and usefultool I’d love to add to arsenal!
Jack says
Our frost free date has long passed and the tomatoes seed is started. Spring is here in central Florida!
Bonnie Hawley says
Don’t pay much attention to most web sites, but really like yours and your style of writing. My veggie garden is 45×160 so I need lots of help with weeds. Got flooded out last year and it was a total failure–just let the weeds go to town. Man who farms some of our acreage retiled the filelds, part of my back yard and the garden area–so flooding should no longer be a problem (I hope). But it’s a mess right now with the huge ruts the tiling caused–hope I can get into it early enough to discourage weed problems. Always looking for new tools to help with keeping them at bay.
Cannon says
Diggy-diggy it is! Sign me up.
Martha Starks says
I would love to use your diggy diggy and I’m definitely going to try the dandelions this year. I enjoy your newsletter too!!
Bev Nolan says
Here in Oregon, I was actually out weeding yesterday as the guys were trimming fruit trees. I’m glad to see from another post that I’m not the only one using an old long screwdriver to try for the tap roots. I think the hori hori would be a whole lot easier on the hands!
Jody says
Can’t garden without that tool!
Hope I win!
Annie's Granny says
Diggy diggy? Goody goody!
Madfortulips says
Our anniversary(38 years) is coming up and it would be a delightful gift for my hubby!
Barb says
Oh….that would come in very handy when I am on a wild foraging walk!
Marg Buck says
Cannot wait to plant vegetables and flowers.
Jane says
Thanks for the great give-way! The hori hori knife looks amazing. Garden planning and even dreaming about weeding is the only thing getting me through this crazy hard winter! Thanks Kevin!
Debra Ralston says
I have a huge section of wooly thyme that has weeds creeping in. The nori knife would really help me out. I have been reading about this knife for quite a while, and would really like to get one. Keeping my fingers crossed.
Lynette says
I had one but it must of gotten left behind in a garden. I would really like to have it replaced if I don’t win this one I will have to purchase a replacement. I really enjoy your website.
cynthia shultz says
that tool looks great. thanks for the introduction. Cynthia
Melanie says
Would so love this tool!!
Aimee Cleveland says
I love this and could really use it to attack the onions and dandelions that invade my many flower beds and garden. We don’t use weed killer so this tool would be my weed killer.
Ruth Padgett says
The knife looks like a fantastic tool. It’s a gray day in Indy, waiting for more snow…I shouldn’t whine, many areas have had it far worse. Your newsletters are helping me get through this winter! Thanks for all the interesting ideas and recipes…
Cindy Bogardus says
I live on the northwest coast where there are so many things we cannot grow because of all the moisture and lack of sunshine, but we can grow the weeds and they are the one thing I dislike the most in my garden. I figure if I just spend 15 per day picking weeds I can pretty much keep them under control. I have purchased all kinds of tools to aid in the weed removal process so I am always looking for a “better” tool or a better way to help out. The Hori Hori looks like it would work well so I would love to win it.
Diane says
The weeds won’t stand a chance with this awesome hori hori knife..and it’s name will bring lots of smiles!
patti g says
my birthday is the 6th. I would love this present to help me in my garden!!
Jennifer says
Diggy Diggy …would love to have one. anything that makes tending my garden easier is a welcome addition to my little garden shed. Thanks!
Gail says
I would love to have the Hori Hori to use on my lawn dandelions. I won’t use chemicals and no matter how many hours I work, I can never catch-up so maybe I have been using the wrong tool. I would probably use it on my 20×25 garden plot as I spend so many hours every week trying to keep up with the weeds there. I think I spend more time weeding than gardening and I would like to turn that around somehow. 🙂
Marcia says
This tool looks like it would come in very handy in my caliche soil. Thank you for the opportunity to win and for your wonderful newsletters. I enjoy reading them very much.
Janet says
My Master Gardener friend says this is her go to tool!
Connie says
I’d love me a diggy- diggy knife! Thanks!
Judy says
I’ve been wanting one of those forever. If I dint win I guess I will just have to break down and buy one.
Patrice Graham says
Our local newspaper gardening Guru had just spoken Highly of the Hori Hori toll and I was going to look for it this Spring. It would be even better to win one.
Thanks for the opportunity.
And the Naan looks delicious!
lynn says
What a nifty little diggy-diggy!! Would love to try that on my many dandelions. This year they go if I must crawl around on my hands and knees until I find each one. The neighbor is not as dedicated to her dandelions so I may still have issues. 🙂
Kirsten says
Oh this Hori Hori sounds great for my enduring ‘war’ against all weed…. Pick me, pick me 😉
MEGAN BLACK says
i would love one. i dug out an old daffodil yesterday with an old trowel and it took forever. i left the dandelions because i was out of time. i would love to have tried your wild onions. do you eat them?? i am growing scallions from the organic root ends. put the cut end in a jar of water on the windowsill and they grow right back. may use some on the naan. my chives grew 5 inches in one day when i brought them in this week. had been talking abut learning to make naan last night and here it is. magic!!
Gretchen says
Oh how I would love to win this! Thiis will be a perfect tool to divide the viigorously growing winter-sown seeds you taught us to do. Love your website, Kevin and all that you so generously share with us eager readers.
elizabeth says
Your site is always an inspiration. I’d love a a Hori-hori too and I can send you all the dandy-lions you would like. The leaves are big and succulent and I just over take.
The weather is perfect here in CA for digging as we have had a bit of rain but 4 inches down it is dry and flaky clay soil.
Carol Reynolds says
I’ve read about the Hori Hori and what a great tool it is. Would love to have it to conquer the onion grass and (what I call) the dinosaur weed. The whole forest could burn but this green horsetail type weed would still come up.
Susan says
Not only would I love this tool but I’m excited to have the mirror feature too! Everyone knows it’s important to always look your best and there have been many times while weeding that I’d have liked to known I had a dried smashed snail stuck in my hair or dirt on my nose! Thanks in advance, Kevin
Sandy says
Great idea!
Martha says
A hori hori would make me happy happy!
Glendolyn says
No fancy comments, just a wish to win this tool!
Betty says
Weeding is always daunting. A new tool to try would be wonderful-assuming it will ever be spring again.
Polly says
I would definitely use the wooden tomato trellises. And the tool you are offering, too!
Just a word about my gardening experiences: It is very hard to describe the feeling of having your hands in the soil, but there is something about it that calms me.
Ann Tye says
Just call me Hori Hori!
Janice Maiorano says
Since I don’t have the strength I used to have, this tool would really help me get the “whole” unwanted plant instead of leaving part of it behind to just grow again. And, I wouldn’t have to wait for my nephew to do this for me!
Paul McGarity says
Great looking tool. Looks like it would work great on smilax.
Cissy Kross says
Love your site, pictures, witty comments, food, garden ideas…I have a huge yard in S. FL with zillions of weeds, and a nonfunctioning greenhouse (needs all new sprinklers, etc). This little diggy, diggy would help save me time & trouble immensely, since my garden work is limited to weekends. Pick ME, Kevin! xo :))
Kay says
I’m sure this would immediately become my go to gardening tool ~ so many uses!
Thanks Kevin!!
Dola says
Looks like a sturdy tool.
charlotte mischel says
Would love a new garden told to start off the 2014 darkening season
Linda says
I’m in my 70’s and weeding my garden use to be one of my favorite things to do. I’d get down on my knees and root them out while I talked to my plants that were suppose to be there. Yea, I know it sounds silly but the plants seemed to enjoy it. As I get older, it has become much harder to do the weeding and a new tool like the hor hori tool just might tip the scales back in my favor again. Please, oh Please, let me win it.
P.S. I use to live in New Jersey so I can commiserate with you on being snowbound. 3 weeks to Spring. Yea!
Marie says
Perfect…now that the rains have moistened our parched Santa Barbara, CA. soil…the weeds are going to sing!!!
Barbara Higdon says
Had one for many years. Used it so much that I broke handle! Miss it. It was so great for edging my beds!
Jane says
Diggy, diggy! love it! would love to win one!
Sandra from WA says
Hi Kevin,
Thank for all the good advice on kitchen and garden helpers. I have a lot of flowerbed area around my house and have been loosing the battle with the weeds and ultimately loose my favorite flowers. I definitely will look for this tool.
Have a good week everyone!
Sandra
Mary says
Weeding! I hate it! The only good thing about it is in healthy soil you might come across some healthy worms to gently tuck back in to the soil. It’s always a good sign when you see the wiggly guys.
Barbara says
Can’t wait to get out to garden!
Russell Amidon says
Hello… We have no snow on the garden and should and kind of wish we did, the dandelions will be heavy this year and that would be an awesome tool to have and use, can see many uses for this tool…
Laura says
I really enjoy your blog. My favorite gardening tool is the Swoe”. It has a long handle with a 5″ blade so it is great for stand up weeding of shallow rooted weeds. I would love to have the Hori Hori for getting weeds with deeper roots!
Elaine says
Living in the south, with wonderful ‘clay’ soil I know this would make this so much easier for me. I love gardening, but clay soil is very hard. At my age 60+ I need all the help I can find. Love your columns each week.
Karin says
Hush Hush Sweet Charlotte.
I am eagerly awaiting anywhere from 3 – 15 inches of snow. Again. Wish I had Hush Hush Sweet Charlotte to watch on the snow day for tomorrow.
If I had a knife I might stab the weather man, but won’t be able to get out of the house so I guess I will only want to. But I would have fun imagining stabbing the weeds that will pop up if I ever get out in the garden again.
I bet it would be good for asparagus too!
(I really wouldn’t stab anyone) (I am sick of snow days)
nancy friesen says
I love kitchen gadgets. But those pesky weeds are ready to pull out in Oregon. Vote me in for thinking this would be lovely to use! Sorry about all of the east coast snow!!
Cara says
Oh how I’d love to add the Hori Hori knife to my collection!!! Living in western Canada with windchill warnings in effect and temperatures hovering around -37C I can only dream of digging in my beloved garden again
Karen at A Glimpse Into My Reveries says
I would love to win the Horizon Horizon! My sister in law is always praising hers and now I see why!
I am going to be busy this spring, just as soon as the snow clears, I am building new raised beds for veggies!
Thanks for the chance to win!
Hurry, hurry spring!
Arden Rembert Brink says
Hi, Kevin — What a great looking tool. Unlike your massively snowy winter, out here in Utah we’ve had unusually little snow so things are already popping up out of the bare ground. That hori hori looks like it would come in *very* handy around here especially helping me actually dig up weeds with the full roots rather than lazily yank them halfway out. 😉
–arden–
Lois Gilmore says
Could so use this! Thanks!
Alicia from CT says
My favorite garden chore is pruning because I find it very therapeutic. My least favorite you may guess is weeding. This new tool of yours just may make the process a little less daunting. Thank you for sharing this.
Matthew Davis says
time to plant the shallots again….
pat futch says
Needa, needa!!
Annie says
The great Bette Davis does a bit of bulb planting in the 1939 movie “Dark Victory’…….great flick! Very cool tool….hori hori! ‘
John says
Hori Hori , I need one today!!
norma brooks says
I would love to have this, i see the pic with all your snow and in Indiana we have had more than usual this year. but can’t wait to get out and start working in the yard,
Erika says
This looks like a very useful gardening tool.
Thank you for the chance to win!
E.
Judy Rubin says
Thanks for your funny and informative newsletters. I so look forward to receiving them and trying to replicate some of the great ideas. Would love touse the Hori Hori tool in my gardening/weeding endeavors.
Jennifer Saines says
I came across this tool just yesterday while reading a post about Lee Reich’s vegetable garden. He uses it to dig out the final plant debris at the end of the season. He strives for minimal disturbance of the soil, and this tool is the perfect fit.
Theresa says
I would LOVE to have this garden tool. Having just put in a new garden last year, the garden is still over-burdened with rid-raf (weeds). Much of it is Burdock, so I certainly sat up and took notice as you showed how well the Hori Hori handled that weed.
Thank your for the opportunity to win one!
Cindy says
Pick me…Pick me…..this could be my new FUN tool.
gen says
For us seniors, If there were only some way to use it without having to bend over.
Betsy T says
This would make me the envy of my garden club!
Eliz says
Wow, I live in Maine! I haven’t seen one of these tools before buts will definetly look for one at my local gardening shop! Can’t wait for spring and the ability to dig in the dirt and garden! I promise to NOT complain about weeds this year after all the snow we’ve had I’ll just be happy to be outside in my garden! Great blog! Thanks for sharing!
Judy says
Anything that helps distract me from the 10 1/2 feet of snow and -35 wind chills, so far, especially today with trouble with the heating system is worth daydreaming about.
Yes, please enter me in the drawing.
Rita says
Would love to win this handy tool!
Jane says
Always have wanted one!
WendyMac says
I am a happy gardener but a bad back makes me a poor weeded. This looks as if it would improve the task, if not to enjoyable, at least to tolerable. And easier.
I love your Sunday posts and drool over your garden…
Duan White says
Random drawing equals random comment: why was the broom late to work? ‘Cause he overswept!
Pam H says
Looks like weeds won’t stand a chance against that tool!
Thank you for another awesome giveaway Kevin 🙂
Maxine Meach says
Stuidying ways to garden when bending is not possible anymore. Still love to read about gardening.
Donna S. says
I would love one of these .Another weapon for the war on weeds !
Susan B says
This looks like a gardening tool I would love!!! It would give me more time to watch some old faves like “Whatever Happened to Baby Jane?”
Cathy says
Hi Kevin, I would love to win this awesome garden tool. I plan on using your newspaper and mulch process for several of my gardens, but it won’t work in my shade garden because it has lots of native wildflowers such as Dutchmen’s Breeches, Spring Beauties, dwarf larkspur and yellow violets that come up wherever they want in early spring. Unfortunately, dandelions, onion grass and other unwanteds pop up too – this tool would be ideal for removal of them!
Terry says
This tool would definitely inspire me to do ‘that which needs to be done’. One would think in sunny Folrida I would be in the yard all the time, but that is not the case.Thanks, Kevin, I really enjoy tour site.
Barbara Zakrzewski says
I really need a good tool for weeding, and digging holes for bulbs using the ruler for accuracy of depth.
Diane says
While I do not suffer the ice and snow of the Northern gardeners, a different blizzard has accosted the gardens of Houston in the form of millions of acorns (reaction to drought of two summers past) taking root (long deep tap roots which are difficult to pull ). Therefore, this tool looks perfect to help remove the hundreds of tiny live oaks that sprout in garden, pots and cracks in anything with dirt! Would love to try it.
Mary says
Weeds be gone! Thank you.
Cheryl says
One thing that our gardens produce in quick abundance are weeds. We have every type you mentioned, and then some. Talk about diggy-diggy, we know the term well. For every weed pulled, two are waiting to sneak up on you.
This tool is very much needed!
Kevin, thanks for the wonderful pictures and information. My recipe file is brimming with new ideas because of you!
Deb says
I’m so eager to get back into the garden after this snowy and cold winter. Each year I marvel at the wondrous surprises emerging from the soil – such annual presents! Would love this effective weeding tool. Love your website, and best wishes on your forthcoming recipe book!
Gladys says
Thank you for your posts. I look forward to them every Sunday. The knife would make weeding a lot easier.
Thanks again
CheyAnne says
this looks like a great tool and I love that it means diggy diggy
Margie S says
We had more snow the past two days and I am soooo ready for spring… it’s time to dig in the dirt again! I’ve purchased lots of different varieties of seeds for my winter-sowing project this year. Last year was the first time I tried it and had really good results with almost everything, however I won’t plant nearly as many seeds per jug this time (can you say tomato forest). Love your sunny outlook on life and fun comments.
Barb L says
I am in Independence, MO and we are getting yet more snow. I know it is badly needed but the cold is what is worse. The temps are lower single digits, but thinking of ways to use the hori hori is making it bearable. Would really like to add to my tools for my garden. Thanks
Marie says
If you want to escape Old Man Winter and be inspired for Spring planting, the Philadelphia Flower Show begins today! http://theflowershow.com/
Phyllis Wilson says
I was introduced to your blog just this weekend and on a snowy weekend in Kansas City have made a couple of your recipes. The spinach and cheese strata was delicious for breakfast this morning. Delicious–thanks
Toni says
What a great name! Would love one.
Terri says
I would love this tool! Hopefully the snow and cold actually goes away so I can garden! -4 degrees and at least 2 feet of snow on the ground as I write this.
Mary says
Wow–I’d love to try the hori-hori on the dandelions in my yard!
Kris says
I cannot wait for all this snow to melt and the sun to warm up the ground enough so that weeds will grow! Then I could use the hori hori knife to take out the weeds I don’t want (I also leave some dandelion intact — I like the yellow against the green grass!
JeanneFalkenstein says
I would love one of these for my raised bed gardens and for the paths in between them. What a great looking helper.
Alecia says
I’d love to give this a try in our TN garden. The IDEAL tool or tip would help me control all the darn Bermuda Grass that continually tries (sometimes successfully) to take over my garden beds every year!
Diane M says
Thank you, Kevin!
Maybe the hori hori would would cut through our heavy clay soil. Would love to try.
Spring, we know you’re out there somewhere. Don’t be shy!
Robin says
Ohmigosh – this is just what I need to get rid of that blasted burdock that is trying to take over the world here! Way cool!
Warren Dahlstrom says
Thanks Kevin,
Second shot at the diggie diggie, prettier than the flathead screwdriver I’m useing now..
Warren
Jill says
It looks like everyone wants a hori hori knife!! The knife would be a great tool for both weeding and dividing plants. I would love to have one.
Kate says
Great for dispatching slugs!
Caitilin Weber says
Whatever those nasty, thorny, stickly things in my gardens are, I’m sure the hori hori would take care of it!
Suzanne K says
I love all new tools that help me in my never ending battle against weeds, thanks!
Karen Chickering says
if I had a hori hori knife today, I would attempt to dig to the center of the earth and find out just how deep the frost has gone this year :(22
Joanne says
With temperatures here in the foothills of the Rocky Mountains in Alberta still in the -30 F. range it will be months before the 2 to 3 feet of snow melts. But the weeds, they will come. And it would be great to have a hori hori knife to attack them.
Pam Hanson says
Okay, so here I am one year later still lusting after this tool…:)
Must buy if I don’t win this time!
Debbie S. says
My flower beds are full of onion grass. This tool would such a big help.
Barbara O'Brien says
I soooo-ooo love getting your email. I would also love to do a seek ‘n destroy weed mission with a HoriHori. in 1962, I was introduced to Joan Crawford as a 12 y.o. when my parents took my sister and I to see “Whatever Happened to Baby Jane?” . Definitely before movie reviews! Will never get that dinner delivery scene out of my mind.
Sandy B says
How can one resist a tool called “diggy-diggy!”
Jackie says
Well Spring has arrived in Houston but the only thing that has “revealed itself” are the weeds… (and lots of them) and muddy clay soil from all of the monsoon rains. Perhaps If monsoon is a Japanese word I will get lucky and prevail with the hori hori weed knife.
Kat Turk says
I have never heard of a ‘Hori hori’ knife…..but I would so love one !!
Kathleen says
Love the name of the tool: Hori Hori.
In fact I’m in love with that tool. I have a bit of a war going on
with the wild onion grass in my little edge of the woods garden.
The onion grass has been winning. Help!
Jo Christopher says
Looks like a great tool!
Denise Maurer says
One of my favorite tools that is often abducted by my gardening hubby. Not only a handy weeded, it is great at division, shaking plants out of pots, small edging jobs and 1 million other things. It’s time we had 2 in the house.
Bonnie says
I have 40 flower beds and could get a jump on dividing some of my flowers and getting rid of some of the weeds! Thanks for all the great tips and recipes!
Sandy J says
Do I every need a hori hori! Just as I need to read A Garden for the House each week.
Jocelyn says
I haven’t seen this tool down under where we have been baking at the other end of the temperature scale at 30+ C. It looks as though it would deal to the Docks and Dandelions in the lawn in a jiffy and attack the weeds in the heavy clay soil that we have. My go to tools at the moment are a screwdriver and the Niwashi. I love your column! Thanks.
P M says
Love strong multipurpose tools………the fewer things I have to drag around my yard, the better!
Susi says
Hurry, hurry, Spring, so that I can use the Hori Hori knife I’m gonna win!
Jan says
Ugh, I need this tool. We made several new gardens last year and they are over run with crab grass and weeds. Have a fantastic weekend.
Jackie Peschong says
I love the translation “diggy diggy”! Can’t wait to own one. I have chive everywhere I don’t want it!! Thanks.
Laura Kowalyk says
Anything that can get the tap roots out so easily is something I’d love to have in my bag of gardening tools.
Christine Loftus says
I am starting a garden for the first time in years. The last one was in Modesto CA about 11 yrs ago. I am now in Kansas, which has very different soil, and am finally ready to tackle the backyard. I have 3 dogs that love to dig and are very nosey so creating a garden I love and that I can keep them out of is going to be a challenge. I found you on pinterest and am so thankful. You have wonderful ideas and tips for success so even if I don’t will this giveaway I would’ve psted this comment. Thank you!
Robert says
I think wearing this on my belt would make me safer while waiting for a bus on a dark night. Oh, and the weeding thing is pretty cool too.
connie says
Looks like an awesome tool to weed. Do you think it would work on young sago palms. They pop up like weeds.
Connie Jennings says
Love your recipes! Specially the pictures.
Katie S says
I need more free time this summer! Weeds begone with Hori Hori!
Vicki says
I would love to have a diggy-diggy. It might get me out faster and earlier to get rid of those pesky dandelions!
Mary says
How are your evergreens? Mine are browner than usual. I’m worried!
Jay says
After the last two days’ rain here in parched SoCal, the weeds will be showing up any minute. It would be great to have a hori hori help get ’em out!
Susie says
Speaking of Joan Crawford, my cats Joan and Betty (you know who) love to garden with me. Especially when I’m weeding on my hands and knees.
John Godfrey says
I would love one honestly just to get rid of wild onions. Plus the weeds in my flowerbeds would be a bonus.
Ann says
Would love this, a cool tool!
Roberta Adams says
Love your website-I am a gardener as well and always enjoy your comments!
Sonia Stanton says
This looks like an awesome tool use in the garden for many different usages., I have never had a Hori Hori.
Yes, I would love to have one, so please pick me….thanks!
As for Joan, well only saw the movie about her kids and “no wire hangers”, yikes!
So glad to post here……
Kat says
What a wonderful tool a hori hori knife appears to be! If I had one I would use it to fight the burdock infectation in our backyard. Thanks for letting us know about such a useful tool.
Mary Frances says
Mildred Pierce, for her eyebrows alone!
Ann says
Hi there – I went to the Philadelphia flower show yesterday with my friend and had the best time. The competition orchids were amazing and the shopping was a little too good. I so enjoyed myself – it was a lovely bit of spring this time of year.
I can’t think of one Joan Crawford movie without googling it, so how about a knock knock joke:
Knock knock!
Who’s there?
Ahab.
Ahab who?
Ahab to go now, talk to you later!
Cookbook Collector says
As it’s snowing cats and dogs today, talking about gardening gives hope that springtime is on its way. With having 4.5 acres to mow, 2 of the acres are detail gardened. Because of outdoor pets, won’t use chemicals to kills weeds so that leaves lots of hand pulling and digging each year. Need this tool!
Carol Durusau says
I need one badly.
Tricia B. says
If the snow ever melts away, I could certainly use a hori hori knife.
Donna Lashbrook says
Favorite Joan Crawford movie: “Sudden Fear”
Donna Allenbaugh says
I have an old hori hori knife with a wooden handle that is splitting. I love this garden tool, and I would love to have a new one. it is snowing steadily right now in south central Colorado.
Aliyah Schick says
Here in the southern Appalachian Mountains today’s expected high is surprising at 69, and so is tomorrow’s low of 22. This up and down winter is not over yet. But it won’t be long before a new weed digging tool would be very fun to try out.
Susan says
Would love to win this garden tool.
Marjean says
To rainy today to do much weeding, but a hori hori knife would be a welcome addition to my weed-bustin’ arsenal.
Marlyn says
I have one of these marvelous tools and totally agree with everything you said. It also works great for splitting root bound potted plants or dividing Hostas into smaller clumps when they won’t come apart with just my fingers. It’s a digger, a weeder, a cutter and a mirror!
Marilyn Purdy says
The hori would be so useful in my perennial shade gardens.
Javier J Echavarri says
I love Hori Hori knives. I do have one but half the time I misplace it (sigh – I tend to do that w/most of my tools and especially my gloves but thankfully I always find them again. I use it for weeding of course as well as transplanting young plants – herbaceous or woody. I dig small holes w/it when planting seedlings as well. It is a great all purpose tool.
Eliza J says
That looks so cool! I have several nasty weeds that encroach on our garden that have tap roots ~ I’ve nicknamed one the wild carrot because it kinds of looks like one. I will put this on my birthday wish list as I know I would get a lot of great use from it for garden cleanup as well as maintenance. In the meantime, I’ll keep my fingers crossed and hope to win one ~
Georgia Lewis says
I have 2 very dear friends who I share this column with and either one of them would love this tool.
Basha says
I have not seen this tool. But I want to win because I love how slender it is and think it will not disturb the surrounding plants as much as the one I currently use. So please pick # 295. Yes??? P.S. I love your web site.
Jean says
Can’t wait for spring….don’t think our temps in Central Ia will break 0 today!
Angie Lloyd says
Need Need Need this tool for my garden 🙂
Annie B says
Ice storm today here in southern Missouri. What a useful looking garden tool!
Carol DuRocher says
I would love to put that tool to some good work.
PattyM says
I cannot wait to see the end of this snow and get back into my garden again! This will be my third year of gardening and little by little I am finding the tools I need to help my old bones get things done! This hori hori knife seems like it would be just the ticket. Thank you for the chance to win one! We are supposed to get another foot of snow in PA tonight! 🙁
Linda C says
What avid gardener wouldn’t want this terrific tool? Expecting a foot of snow here in Southern NJ, but I’m sure spring can’t be too far away! I hope.
Theresa N says
I’d love to have this to weed my garden.
Claudia says
Cool Tool !
Kimmer says
Oh do I need one of these!! I know the weeds will be thicker than usual after the nice winter sleep they have had.
jo says
At age 72, anything helps in the garden!
Marcia Leitschuh says
Which corner do you see spring just around??? In western Wisconsin we are many miles from that corner!!!
Dolores Curbis says
We could really use this tool,as my husband does the weeding,and it looks fairly easy to use.
Thanks for your many recipes. I have tried your potato & onion soup(great) & flatbread made w/garbanzo bean flour. Such a delicious and healthy recipes. We seem to enjoy the breads from different as they seem to be lighter and not a lot of “bread” in middle,if you know what I means.
Thanks
Ardelle says
12:21 p.m. – CST – Currently 0 degrees, -13 degrees wind chill – winning a Hori Hori would be a wonderful balm as I begin winter sowing. Great basic tools are my passion. Dandelion salad along with water cress were always the harbingers of spring. Growing up on an active farm we had straw stacks outdoors – early spring we children went out to uncover and dig around the perimeter of these piles to uncover delicious blanched new dandelion greens – what a treat. We did not use any farm chemicals so this was very back to nature. We have lots of snow but even though the temperature is cold, the SUN melts some snow every day – very encouraging. Sun was up before 7:00 CST a.m. today for the first time this year. Made some great parsley soup today with frozen parsley from my freezer – tastes close to fresh. My gardening itch is becoming to much to put off much longer. 🙂
damien says
LOVE THE KNIFE.
Rachel says
Would love to win a “diggy-diggy!” Since you showed a photo of burdock I’ve realized I’ve got burdock all overy my garden. Have read that it’s edible, so now I’ve got an addition to our food budget! Love your newsletter.
Dori says
I would paint thehandle flourescent red so I don’t lose it in the garden.
Dori
Corinne says
It HAS to be “Mildred Pierce”!!!!!!!
Carol says
What a great tool! Would love to have one!
C Ann Lawrence says
Hey, Hori Hori, Ho Hori Hori. Yes, this knife would be really nifty for digging out dandelions. i refuse to kill them with toxins plus I use the ones in the center of the yard for salads, away from the property lines since my neighbors use poisons for their unwanted plants.
joyce fleming says
More snow coming in S New England. Is spring EVER going to arrive?
Mary Messer says
I would love to have this garden tool . I love to garden and my garden tools are getting old. Most of them don’t even have handles on them anymore. Iam going to have to replace all of them this summer and I live on November a small fixed income. It would make my day if I could get this tool that would be one less tool I would have to buy. And it looks like it would make weeding easier to do. I have RA and can use all the help I can get. Thank you Mary Messer
Janet Ortega says
OMG there are so many comments here. People love gardening tools as well as I do. I live in AZ and the weeds are ruthless. They have tap roots that go forever and the ground is so hard. I definitely could use a tool like this. Thank you Kevin for doing this. Happy gardening!
Bill says
I hate digging weeds, it the back so. But Hori-Hori or Diggy-Diggy makes it sound more pleasant.
ps. “Grand Hotel”
Cathy Schutzenhofer says
This tool would be a great help in my very weedy garden!
Judy says
I’m so ready to ‘diggy diggy’ in my garden. Pick ME!
Becky says
We have a major burdock infestation in our back bed and it’s good to know something will pull them out by the roots! I hope I win, but if I don’t, I’m going to purchase one.
Love your blog and website!
Victoria Ladd says
I’m an avid gardener here in Austin, TX, and love finding good tools that hold up and perform well. I’d love to add this to my collection and would definitely use it for getting rid of the spring weeds that pop up here!
Patricia Whitney-Jones (maiden: Lackie) says
Oh Boy! Could I ever need this……so many weeds..and they will be popping their heads up soon…..I really need this handy too. thanks so much, Tricia
Pam says
Hot diggy, diggy, I want to be a winner, winner chicken dinner!
jane says
If I had this tool, I would win a battle of weeds,
Debbie says
Maybe this would help me finish getting my private garden/cottage garden retreat done??!!
jane says
If I had this tool, I could win the battle of the weeds!
Charisse Sick says
In PA I grow some really deep growing weeds. The tool would be a great help.
Ana says
I have one of these so don’t pick me! I love it! You can not understand how useful this is until you use one. Somebody is going to be very lucky!
Lynne says
A good garden tool is a blessing! Whoever wins this will be able to do so much in the garden.
Diann MacRae says
I’m planting some new Asian vegetables this year; the Hori Hori would be a perfect fit! 🙂
Michelle Snow says
Oh what I wouldn’t give for a tool to get rid of those darn wild onions!
Joyce Bradley says
If I had a Hori Hori Knife…..my husband could do a better job of digging up the weeds while I supervise!!!
Jenny Gibbs says
Would love to win one for all of my tough weeding chores! Thank you for the opportunity!
Debby says
Here in Southern Illinois we are preparing for another wave of freezing rain and snow to arrive this Sunday evening…..Ugh!!! I dream of days of digging in the dirt……… spring supposedly will arrive in a little less than 3 weeks…. not that I am counting the days. I would love to win this nifty little tool to begin the spring season with.
Mary Martin says
This tool would help me retrieve my smaller bulbs out of the ground as well as some plants that I would want to move to another area ,,,,, Also this tool would be good to punch a hole to plant some things with!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
There are many uses for this tool!!!!!!!!!
LuAna W. says
Really enjoy your stories and your home is gorgeous in snow…
Mona Tammaro says
My fav Joan Crawford movie is Mildred Pierce!
I love the Hori Hori, I have one, but would love to have an extra to enlist some help in the garden
Thanks for the great recipes, love your news…
Pepper says
This would be a fabulous tool to keep my flower beds looking weed-free.
Skye says
Hori-hori!! Because I want to start gardening. Let’s start this off right!
Thanks for the chance to win.
Sally Norris says
Just what I need to help me with the back breaking job of weeding. I have more than my share and getting old doesn’t make it any easier!! Can’t wait for your book to come out.
jane says
I could put that to good use!!!!
Peggy says
This tool would help remove all the dandelions in my yard!
pam says
boy do I really need this tool! talk about weeds galore! With 2 acres of woodlands and gardens, this would be the perfect tool to use! thanks for all your help Kevin! love your blog!
Christina Pearson says
Here in upstate New York (Rochester area) we still have cold and snow…..I don’t think spring will ever get here but if I win the Hori Hori knife at least I can dream of digging in the dirt….
Sue Wein says
The Hori Hori looks so cool
It might become my favorite tool
So if I win
I know I’ll grin
And dance like a garden fool!
vivian says
Looks like a great tool. I wonder how long it will take me to lose it.
Susan Nebrick says
This looks like a super tool that belongs in my garden shed, but even if I don’t win- I’m a winner because of all your awesome recipes each week! 🙂
Susen Shapiro says
In my little plot at the community garden (I have endless deer at home), I’m going to put up a sign that says “Vegetables of the world, unite! Feed the people!, just for fun. Seriously, I would love to have such a great weeding tool, and I just love A Garden For The House.
Natalie says
Hi Kevin! I’d be quite happy to win diggy diggy..it just might help me from becoming Mommy Dearest! I dream of therapy in the garden…
🙂
Kelly hutton says
Maybe this would convince me to actually weed my garden!
Benny Salter says
Anything to help in the battle against weeds would be appreciated.
Barbara says
Here in the Pacific Northwest, weeds are a constant all year round. It never really gets cold enough to kill them, so in these tender weeks of Spring, it already feels as if i’m weeks behind. A Hori Hori would be put to work in my garden immediately.
Pat Eaton says
So….What song would find it’s way into my head as I used this wonderful tool? I can still hear “When I Need You” every time I bake bread!!
lynn says
Actually your explanation on eliminating dandelions is what makes me interested in this tool!
Sue Lefeber says
Dandelions dandelions dandelions!
Paula says
The hori hori would be great for my garden. I live in a subdivision where Redbud trees abound. I could really use the tool for digging up all the seedling redbuds in my various gardens. The Joan Crawford movie I remember most is “Whatever Happened to Baby Jane”. Scared the heck out of me.
Sara says
Nice tool for Spring gardening.
Bobbie says
I would love one of these, much better than the large old knife confiscated from the kitchen.
Pam says
I use an old, narrow bulb-planting trowel for weeds, but this looks so much better.
Janet says
Wow, so many posts so I’ll probably never win. I could use all the help I could get fighting weeds this summer though so maybe I’ll look into getting one for myself. You have been so inspirational, Kevin. I hope my winter sown seeds are successful this spring.
Kris says
This looks like the perfect garden tool. Thanks for telling us about it, and for offering it in the drawing!
Ellin says
This looks like a gardening tool I could use!
Cindy Cassady says
I really learn a lot from your columns. Even learn about snow…which we don’t get in Orlando, Florida!
Deborah West says
I love this tool! I would love to win this tool to give to a wonderful volunteer gardener.
Thanks for your info in your blog & this giveaway.
Yvonne says
Love your site , blog and posts. I’ve learned a lot from them and have certainly added to my wish list. Thanks for your input
Dreama B. says
Roses are red
Violetx are blue
I need this tool
To keep the weeds from you!
brenda says
I enjoy reading your newsletter each week. Would love to win.
Kevin says
I’ve never heard of this tool. It looks like a great addition to any gardner’s tool collection.
Elizabeth says
New house, new gardens, many weeds!
Katherine says
Hot diggity! I’d love to have a hori hori. Even though it doesn’t look like spring in upstate NY. Guess I’ll have to find some at the Philadelphia Flower Show this week!! Thanks Kevin for a great site & fun giveaways.
Valerie says
Must have this….
Cheryl thede says
My 11 year old grandson is just getting interested in gardening. Although I would love it for myself, it would make a great gift for him.
Shelley Choate says
This could also be great for gently transplanting (if you absolutely had to) hollyhocks, etc, with long tap roots. I had to do this once as we were building on a new attached garage and I really didn’t want to lose my hollyhocks! I did it with my trowel – it was a lot of work! I would love to try it with the hori hori!
Kathleen says
I am an old and now lazy Gardner. But where do you purchase them. I still owe a Christmas gift, want one for a June birthday gift for another old Gardner and one for a neighbor who shares her beautiful flowers with the world. Thanks for everything you post. Especially this horrid winter [Chicago). Kathy
Anita says
I would be so Happy Happy to win a Hori Hori to get rid of many many weeds.
KC says
Oh…I’m hacking away through weeds and brambles to clear a spot for a veggie garden.
What a help that little gadget would be!
Jeanna says
I would love to give it a try.
Kathy says
What an awesome tool! Would love to have this tool, like would be a whole lot easier in the fight against the “weed”. Thanks for the lovely winter pics of your yard, it is very beautiful.
Marylou says
I know my changes will be one in a million but I am going to try anyway. Hori Hori would be a definite help to me in AZ where the weeds are just as tough as the rocks they grow in. It will help me dig them out without clearing a huge ares to get a shovel in and then having to put all the rocks back. Please.
kisia shaw says
I have carpal tunnel just had surgery .Looks like a helper.
Jude says
Can you say Smilax L. greenbrier?
Grazyna says
I would use the hori hori knife for weeding. I fight burdock like mad because I hate when it gets into my dog’s hair. I will not be digging dandelions as we are starting to keep the bees and it’s one of the first flowers in spring they need.
Anne Walden says
I have solo many weeds. If I don’t win this, I shall have to go and buy me one. Love your column and your recipes.
Arthur in the Garden! says
These are a wonderful garden tool!
kisia shaw says
looks like a helper
kathryn anderson says
Horibedazzlemania! Sclurfufflingingtonly remaskertickliness! <3
Ramona Welden says
Love your blogs nice surprise today
Diana Posthuma says
I have never seen this tool in New Zealand, it would be very useful, especially for removing all the weeds and dandelions in our lawn.
Penny Bumgarner says
Would love to win this, would be a great help in our gardens!
Joan says
Would love anything that made weeding easier.
Susan McAuliffe says
Looks like a really cool tool. Would love to own it. My husband and I do a lot of yard work. Any tool that makes it easier or faster is one I am looking for. Another great, useful tool is a Japanese tool called a “cuttle fish hoe” it is a hand held hoe that has numerous uses. Love it.To quote the description of the tool “it is a workhorse”.
Enjoy your Sunday visit. Happy Spring! If it ever gets here……
Susan
Sam Wayman says
I been looking for one of these and haven’t found any close to home. just on internet.
Barb says
When the bones get old, the body aches. A Hori Hori would help lessen the work load. Thank you Kevin for your wonderful give a -ways and informative weekly newsletter.
Judy says
I already receive gifts from your site, every time I look at it. I’m so pleased to have found it . I would love the Hori Hori and would put it to unending work, as long as my back holds out.
Zoe Williams says
I love your posts, you brighten these cold days. i have pots no garen or yard , but son does and needs all the help he can get with the wild garlic and such.
Suzanne Gravelle says
I am a plant minded friend with 10 acres in central BC. I have weeds!
Ann says
Have been looking for a good weeding tool!
Rujana says
This has been a crazy winter: warm to start with, then colder than usual. With all the warmth, our yard is overrun with weeds. It does not make any sense that they did not die during the cold snap. Oh, well! I have been planning to dig them all up. The Hori Hori knife would be just what I am going to need. 🙂
Let’s hope the Spring weather will be here soon!
Happy gardening, ya’ll!
ConnieSue says
I would love to win the hori hori knife! Since I read about it in your past article I have looked and looked and called all around. Alas, no one carries this local to me withing 100 miles (that I’ve researched).. Thanks for the chance to win one.. I’d be honored to put it to good use!
Willow says
I would love to have this remarkable tool to help in the never ending battle against weeds.
Tamara Berthelson says
Count me in. Need to hori hori in So Cal !!! :*
Abby says
Too many weeds, too few tools. I could really use another.
Cecile says
nver heard about the hori hori. I don’t think they are for sale here. A pity, because I could use something to remove deeprooting weeds.
Suzanne says
Looks like a great tool, and something I could really use in my garden!
Jill says
I’m overrun with wild onions–this could clean it up easily.
Peggy T Rickard says
I love your emails. I love gardens and all of the beautiful recipes. Please send more garden information. Thanks.
Karen L. says
This tool looks like it might be able to tame even my weeds and such. I guess we could call it a “weed weapon” because that’s what it looks like. Sorry about all the snow you have gotten and will probably still get. One of my relatives lives in NJ and he is exhausted from shoveling.
Barbara Bruneau says
I’m making plans to double the size of my raised bed gardens this spring. That means twice the produce; but alas, twice the weeding. I could really use a hori hori knife to help.
Toni Griffith says
Would come in handy! My soil contains lots of rocks
Valerie C. says
It looks like something I’d use often. I loved Joan Crawford in Above Suspicion 🙂
M.Sullivan says
I’ve used this tool for many years. It works well as a trowel as well as a weed remover. Mine has one-inch measurements on the side which helps when checking the depth of holes when planting. Actually I use mine most turning it almost parallel with the soil and shallowly cultivating the flower beds in spring. Everything looks a little neater when the soil has been turned over at the beginning of the season especially around new plantings. Please put me in your drawing. Mine is now antique!
Carol Watkins says
soo many weeds in Florida! I’ve never seen this tool, would certainly like to be able to try one out. thanks for the info!
roxanna says
Will this work for us left handed gardeners? Wouldn’t have a problem giving it away if it doesn’t since i am the only lefty out of all the gardeners i know.
Linda says
After a year of grace, weeds are starting to find my newest flower bed. This tool might just scare them away! I like the serration and the measurements would be useful at transplant time, too. I’m not a good ‘eyeball-er’.
Your house and gardens are so beautiful in the snow, but, oh my, they do look cold.
Susan says
That would be a most fab replacement for my 15 year old previously discarded bread knife.
Thanks in advance,
Susan
Michelle Rines says
dreaming about gardening here in Maine…..lots of snow still on the ground, but thinking about how I could put that hori hori knife to use……digging up leeks, onions, garlic , etc…..Thanks!
susan says
The homi is my favorite tool-does man different chores
Elizabeth Pitzer says
I have a Hori Hori knife and I love it. This one would be a great gift for the young woman that I hire to help me in the garden. I was her High School Biology teacher ten years or so ago and we have become close during her time as my employee. We are both always reaching for the Hori Hori which is kept on a rack on the garden cart; so she would be thrilled with her own. I won the garden cart in a local drawing. First contest I have won in my life. Maybe this will be the second!
Cindy Haeger says
I would love to eliminate weeds with the hori hori tool. I can’t wait to move beyond the polar vortex that we’ve had to endure this winter!
Barbara Gould says
Did I see a ruler marking to measure the depth of bulb planting?
I would love that!
KimH says
Ohhhh… that looks awesome!! I NEED this You come up with the best stuff!!
Brenda says
To quote J.C., “I think the most important thing a woman can have – next to talent, of course – is a Hori Hori knife!
Laura says
Could be a great tool to have if the snow ever melts…
TexasBelle says
The weeds in South Texas are still growing……this hori hori will really help “weed” them out!!!!!!
Bobbie Goodnight says
What a neat tool!
Jeanio says
Mildred Pierce
Dennis R says
Hurry, Hurry, Springy Springy so I can use my Hori Hori
Elaine says
67 degrees here in NW Florida today … time for me to get busy outside !!!
Kristin Collins says
I hear the meadow larks already and they are singing the praises of the hori hori!
Mary A. says
Love this tool, anything to help win the battle.
Collie says
one of the best all around tools! thank you!
Wendy Aycoth says
I have a Hori Hori, I was given it as a Christmas gift many years ago. At that time I had never heard of it. Now after all these years, it is one of my favourite tools in the garden. It digs just about anything, holes for bulbs, upturns weeds, saws small branches out of the way, and when the ground is really hard and dry, this tool will turn over the soil with little effort.
Anyone who gets it will love it. The longer you have it, the more you will love it.
Thanks Kevin.
Sherry b says
Would be a great tool for my battle of the weeds
Jean says
Can’t wait to get outside and clean up the yard and get my hands in that dirt.
LIz says
Anything to make weeding easier! Now if somebody would invent a tool that eradicates wiregrass, I’d be ecstatic.
Carole says
As backyard beekeepers, my husband and I shun pesticides and herbicides on our 1.6 acres property. The hori hori looks like a good addition to our natural arsenal.
Sheri Z says
This would be great for all my new plantings in the garden this year and also for the weeds that creep into my yard from my neighbors yard.
Betty says
Would love to have this incredible garden tool.
Susan Turner Bankard says
I could really use this to get the out grasses that keep popping up around my pineapple plants in the Florida Keys.
Sheila says
That looks like fun!
Linda Hale says
Hori, Hori what a great war hoop for those weeds
Debbie says
Love to have this tool. Thanks for the giveaway.
Nancy Carr says
This tool is exactly what I need and would use it a lot. I have weeds that need to be dug up and this would be great. Thank you.
Melodie says
Dreaming of getting back outside when the snow goes away & I’m mobile. Sounds like the perfect tool to add to my arsenal!
Kate Stalter-Mastro says
Winning the Hori Hori tool would be Awesome! My Climax Kitchen Herb Garden is in need of clean up and this would make it a much quicker job. Fingers crossed!!
Kattrinka says
I would surely gift this to my son and DIL for their bountiful vegetable garden!
Betty Blalock says
Dandelions bring out my OCD full force. I stop to get rid of one, and an hour later, my back gives out! Stuck with using an old steak knive!!
Barb L. says
Here in SD we are still “enjoying” the coldest winter I can remember. I am so looking forward to going outside and doing a little diggy diggy. This tool would sure come in handy!
Barbara says
You are the most thoughtful blogger … a gift just when we need it! More snow last nite and again tomorrow. Yikes! Enough!!!
Leslie D says
Hi Kevin,
The snow is deep here, and winter seems to be everlasting.
Years ago I bought a “Japanese Gardener’s knife” a primitive version of your shiny, new, graduated, hori hori, and it is still my favourite tool. I wrapped red duct tape around the wooden handle to make it easier to spot if I drop it in the garden, mine looks heavier, and is no longer shiny, with no measuring marks and no sheath, but it is still the best tool I own. Now I know what to ask for when I look for a second one.
Love your newsletter, hints, recipes and decorating, but most of all your humour . Thanks!
Vickie Cook says
Although the hori hori knife would be a bonus, I’m just glad to know I’m not the only one with a gardening jones right now! For the last couple of weeks, I’ve been doing research on different types of gardening ideas. Mine will definitely be an organic garden with an emphasis on companion plants and adding some character to our garden space. Also, since this will be the 1st year that I will have complete say-so on our garden, I am looking at seed catalogs for new and exciting, vegetables, plants and herbs to try and looking forward to being out in the garden again!
Jacque says
I LOVE our little “visits” that come in my Sunday emails! Thanks for being creative, informative, clever and funny!
Nancy Harrelson says
Pick me! Pick me! Pick me!!! As an older gardener I now appreciate tools that make my tasks easier. Thank you for sharing.
Nancy
Virginia Mayer says
I had one and it developed legs after a friend tried it!! Would love to have one again and I promise not to let anyone “try” it! Thanks so much for offering it, hope I’m lucky!
Porter says
I’m hoping to have something left other than weeds in my garden. The deer have eaten anything and everything this winter! So I could use a Hori Hori knife with all the weeds that undoubtedly will spring up.
Carol from Minnesnowta says
I found out today that my nephew is getting married and would love to give him a hori-hori gift! He and his fiance are landscaping their yard in NC and I think they would love it.
Sandy Sebold says
We could all use one of these! Thanks for a chance to win, one!
Sandy Douglass Abalos says
I would love to win this hori hori knife & would put it to good use. And I’d probably shout hori hori with every weed I released from Mother Earth!
Christina says
Today I wish that I was digging out weeds instead of chipping ice on the driveway.
Jan says
ah, the thought of weeding fills me with anticipation! This would make life so much easier in the garden. Here’s hoping!
Linda Noblin says
Spring was here yesterday afterbiib …85 F and winter this afternoon 25 and getting colder.
I dug up my lettuce, potted them and brought them in. Woe
Beth Varieur says
Hi Kevin, I really hope I win this, I need it so badly to get rid of weeds in my perennial bed. Love love love your newsletter and site.
tammie says
It is a multi-purpose tool you can carry the entire day and always find a job for it!
E. Sue Colton says
Hori Hori looks like an ingenious garden tool. Would love to add it to my gardening arsenal.
Gardening is my passion…but looks like “passion” is going to be put “on hold” this Spring.
Sherrill Rogge says
I would really love one of these!!!!!!!
Jacqueline says
Oxalis-Be-Gone… with the diggy-diggy Hori Hori !! Help me, Kevin Wan, you’re my only hope!
Edye says
Here here for Hori-Hori!!!! So much MORE glamorous than diggy diggy—- don’t you think????
MARY STOTT says
Cool tool. Would be great for weeds.
Jeri Erman says
I am so anxious for gardening season to begin! I have been reading through some of your older posts on tomatoes! I have some favorite recipes I would love to share with you sometime. Now that you have an immersion blender, you can use that in making your spaghetti sauce!! And I saw that you have dabbled with bath canning ~ wondering if you have tried canning salsa? I would love to find a good (safe) recipe to use for canning.
Jo Alexander says
Looks like a dandy tool for a garden. I am planning to make a garden this year because I just got a bug for really fresh veggies I can pick out of the garden. And, my great grandchildren are 12 and 14 and need to learn the joys of growing their own food. I have neglected to give them this education. We surely could use this tool for the area we’re planting in is really, really grown over with weeds. Thanks, Jo
Sarah says
It’s sunny today, here in West Michigan. We’ve had about 120 inches of snow this winter. I love every flake, but winter and I are starting to get on each other’s nerves.
flora says
Love to garden & appreciate anything that makes weeding easier.
Jayne Chandler says
Delightful to turn my thoughts to this years garden projects. I start each day looking out over the overabundance of snow and delighting in what is newly poking thru the snow in evidence that there is actually a dormant garden waiting for the warmer temps that will bring the snow melt. I have a grand plan to continue this season. The hori hori will definitely come in handy to poke thru the cardboard I laid down last year to make new garden space. I still have a list of herbs and groundcover plants to go in there.
Mary Beth Norton says
HI! I would love to win this tool because I have nasty clay soil here in Northeastern Ohio that holds onto weed roots like winter is holding onto to us this year.
Thank you and have a great day! MB
Nancy says
This would be a welcome addition to my family of tools. Someday, when the snow melts and the earth wakes up I will get to use them once again. Thanks for the chance to win!
Todd says
Sweet tool for harvesting all kinds of goodies on the farm.
Sue says
This looks like a very interesting garden tool and I am sure it would make my gardening easier!
Veronica Erdmann says
This long winter is still holding us tight. Time to plant some seeds indoors!
Libby O says
I need this tool for my out of control flower beds. Thanks for the chance to win.
Hope says
What an amazing tool!
Lisa b says
I live in my garden! This tool looks awesome!
Tracy Soule says
I just can’t hardly wait for the snow and bitter cold to go away so I could actually use something like the Hori Hori knife!
Carol says
What a great tool for all around weeding and planting. Not sure I want to see myself in the “mirror” after weeding and garden work. I never saw such a versatile tool that takes the place of 2. I would love to win it and would put it to good use.
thanks for offering it to us. Think spring!!!
Rosemare Grant says
Here in zone 4 Alaska, our snow has gone to you Kevin, but still freezing at 10F. I need this fancy tool to get at all those dandelions that I want to make your aunties salad with. I’m just now making the seed starters out of water and milk jugs you have talked about. I planted leeks last year like you said, but they didn’t get very big. Hope to have better luck next year.
Ann Brown says
That looks like a neato knife i could use to pluck up those unwanted trespassers in my garden!
Jeanne McCullough says
I just got back from completing Shoden Level1 Usi Reiki Ryoho! I am hoping to practice this Japanese Reiki on my perennials and all aspects of my garden! In fact I am headed out in a bit to walk around my snowshoed paths to send blessings and healing energy to all of my lovely dear friends who have blessed me over the years with their infinite beauty. In my 30 yrs of gardening I have yet to use this Japanese tool , so I find it fitting to at least try to have this in my collection.
My hands are placed In Gassho.
cindy says
I need this! I have more weeds than blades of grass.
Honor says
Would love to try this on my arch-nemisis, Burdock.
John says
This is EXACTLY what I need to transform my garden into a garden of Eden like Kevin’s. Hint! Hint!
Penny Simmons says
A good tool is just a delight! I’d love to win this one! Thanks for the chance. Love the blog!
Jackie Lehr says
A hori hori knife would be a great addition to my gardening arsenal.
Debra says
I remember this tool from last May! Maybe it will be mine this time! Love all your posts and looking forward to your cookbook! I don’t know what I would do in snow to my knees! Ewuuuuu.
;-D
Becky says
A tool I don’t have . Would love to have one. Love your blog This is my second year for milk jug gardening.
Joyce Brennan says
Aha! but does it get the whole tap root of the dandelion? If not, you’ll have another grow where you dug the last one up. would love to be able to plant bulbs in our clay – already broke the ‘bulb planter.’
Carol Hanson says
I would love to try this tool; have heavy clay soil with lots of rocks. weeds have no trouble growing in it tho. I live in the middle of MT and at 7:30 this morning our wind chill was -39 degrees; we have lots of snow in huge drifts but the sun is now shining and the forecast for a week from today is 50ish! gotta love Mother nature!
Karen Hermansen says
Woul love this tool!
Martha Helin says
I want to dig. Soon.
Cleanne says
This tool with its many uses will be very useful this spring.
Thanks for telling us its many uses.
Juanita says
I sure would like one, and while you are at it, send me some of the snowshoe naan.
Sharon Hull says
This is definitely one of the best hand tools I’ve ever found. Would dearly love to have another one to keep in my truck since I garden in two locations.
Jean Charlton says
I have been wanting a Hori-Hori forever. How I wish my name would be drawn. Had substitutes but they rust and do not function as digger and trowel. Please, please let me lucky!!!
Renee Byrd says
It is snowing and snowing and snowing today. 10 fresh inches since last night. Spring well I keep thinking March came in like a Lion so should go out like a Lamb–which means spring is coming sooooooon!!!!!!!!
Oh and yes I so need this weeding tool.
Denise in Colorado says
I’m visualizing winning this tool and using it on dandelions! 😉
Trish Stratton says
Kevin, I am a newcomer to receiving your emails and must say I enjoy every one of them and look forward to receiving one every week! Your receipies are easy and good and I have tried several! If I won the weeding tool maybe my weeds would run and HIDE. I can only wish!
Rita says
Joan Crawford in Whatever Happened to Baby Jane – great movie! Glorious lady.
Karen says
Already started the spring planting in Texas! This looks like a wonderful tool.
Barbara Johnson says
This looks like a great tool I would love to have one.
Polly Jones says
I’d love to use this tool on my weeds!
Meg says
The Hori Hori is a great tool! I learned about it at a free clinic on high plains gardening when I was living in Wyoming.
Karyn Harrington says
YEP! I would use this tool all day long!
Janet says
Would love to have one of these!
jody says
I’m sitting here sipping my first glass of wine in anticipation of the teeny, tiny piece of tenderloin soaking in more of the same, waiting to jump under the broiler for my dinner. It must be my brain, not the wine, but every time you wrote about your weeding tool, I kept reading “wedding tool”. The first time, I thought, what is he giving away? I’m glad I kept reading. I can use a weeding tool…not so much a wedding tool.
garden lady says
Love your site. One I really enjoy. Especially your sense of humor. I would love to win one of these knives so I could cut through roots & all the other stuff that’s in my way when I want to dig. It would be perfect for getting rid of weeds. Please keep up your site so we gardeners can get great info & a lot of chuckles. Even the recipes are great.
Charlene Borden says
I want one of those.
Lizzie McNett says
I would love to have one of these. Watch out weeds!
sheri says
spring has definitely sprung here in AZ. We have been 15 degrees above normal for over three weeks now. I have daffodils blooming, the desert willow is budding, and zinnias, hollyhocks and other flowers are all coming up.
Jennifer Voss says
Would love it to rid our new yard of the horrible prickly plants that attack us and the dog.
anita says
I have always wanted a hori hori knife, seeing as I’m the Chief Weeder of our garden.
I enjoyed the Joan Crawford post – a cautionary tale indeed.
Paula K says
love reading all the posts, we are all so anxious for spring…sleeting as i write in SE PA…they predict 6-10″ into tomorrow. Ugh! This knife would be great for pesky dandelions that dare to come up in the strawberry bed!
Kate says
My garden exploded with ragweed and mustard last year. A hori hori looks like it might be what I need to tackle them this season.
Thanks for all you do, Kevin. Your blog is always a pleasure to read and your photos are fabulous.
Apryl Kingsley says
What a handy tool to clean up the garden.
gloria says
Want-want diggy-diggy! Thanky-thanky.
Debi Clark says
Humoresque 🙂
raised ranch kid says
Love the blog! Have learned at lot.
Jeremiahwasabullfrog says
I would love to give this to my gardening friend who can’t afford decent tools!
Barbara Brown says
That looks so much better than trying to dig weeds out with a kitchen tablespoon. We are having our week of winter rain in So California. It’s just enough to set the weeds free!
Carolyn says
This sounds like a great tool. After moving from Florida to Georgia a few years ago, I could definitely use this tool for the war on weeds.
When harvesting dandelions for salads, do they need to be small or can you use any size? Lots of them here.
Marie says
My neighbor wants you to pick me so that I won’t have to borrow hers.
Florrie McGinnis says
I could surely make good use of this!
Barbara Rich says
This sounds like a great tool. I just moved and am thinking about what gardening tools I need!
Janie says
Hori Hori up and draw!!!
Cathy W. says
This tool would be handy for eradicating those pesky wild onions and maybe some poppies that have a tendency to take over…
Ruth says
your blog grows as well as your gardens! Here it is only Sunday afternoon and already you have nearly six hundred comments on your newest give-a-way! We all love your posts!
barb says
sure could help with weeds. Have arthritis at 70 years of age and weeds are my worst enemy. Only good thing is the weather they grow in.
Terry says
I would love to win one of these as my husband keeps walking off with (stealing) mine. Love your blog!
Stacia says
This looks like another great tool to add to my gardening arsenal!
Linda Stone says
Looks like a great too and I can use all the gardening help I can find ;o)
Ramey says
This looks brilliant, Japanese tools are often either specialized in interesting ways OR are good general purpose tools. I have a nice pair of secateurs that I value for their quality and versatility.
kt says
Being in Upstate NY, too, I look longingly at my white blanketed raised beds in anticipation of when I can plant the first seeds. Thanks for always providing great tips, recipes and pictures! Keep it coming! 🙂
Karla says
Joan Crawford. Hmmmmm was she in The Graduate? Pretty sexy movie in the Sixtys!! Shows my age huh?? Battling Cabin Fever here in Minnesota!!! My winter sowing 101 is covered in snow and more snow. Thanks for all your recipies and gardening info. Two of my favorite topics!!!!
Karen says
looks great, would love this tool. Cheers
Maureen P. says
Most of my hand gardening tools are ready for the trash. Many years of service, but time for new ones. Would love to try the one you recommended. In Utah and we are warmer than we should be with all the snow gone from the valley. Lots still in the mountains. Your website is a breath of fresh air with the food and garden and also the house. Enjoy coming here.
Tami Wilde says
Hands down it has to be “Hush, Hush, Sweet Charlotte”. That movie terrorized me. My parents took my sister and I (7 and 4) to the drive-in and assumed we’d fall asleep after the cartoons. Well, that worked for my little sister, but not for me. I watched the entire thing in silence in the back seat of the Volkswagon. Years later when my dad found out I had been awake the entire time, he would tease me and start singing the “Hush, Hush” theme song. He thought that was hysterically funny—-I didn’t.
Cindy L says
My favorite Joan Crawford movie is well I have 2, a movie from the 30’s called “Rain” and then “Flamingo Road”. If that Hori Hori works that well on dandelions I need one.
Mercy says
I’d LOVE this knife! I’m so into gardening and canning anymore, & it is just so de-stressing!
Mike Billett says
Got lots of plants to plant so I’d put it to good use!!
Barbi B. says
Thank you for every word that you put onto your ‘site’! The hori hori would be wonderful for my arthretic hand–we, too, are ready for Spring, as soon as this Thunder-Sneet stops falling from the heavens in SE Missouri!! 🙂
kathy says
howdy, We just got our seed in the mail and have about 30 milk jugs cleaned and cut ready to receive seeds. My girls are so excited to get the seeds in the dirt it has been hard to wait until march. We live in a high desert region where the grass is still brown. This weekend we drove over the pass to much warmer climate for a 4H poultry show. My girls, the total garnders, must have commented on how beutiful and green everything was. We went to a farmers market and bought daffodils to bring home.
Faye says
Is this tool used for planting bulbs as well? It has a measurement guide on the blade. Thanks!
Sheryl says
A new tool to tackle the weeds right after the snow melts. Sounds great! Enjoying your ideas and recipes!
LauraO says
I have all the weeds you mentioned the Hori Hori can take care of. Would love it to tackle those pesky weeds. Can’t wait for Spring.
Don Ross says
Natural weed control, with tools like this helping out, is the only way that is earth friendly.
Katie says
I would love to add a hori hori to my tool collection- I would use this for weeding and fall bulb planting!
They are great for dividing small perennials too!!
Lori Schmidt says
I have an abundance of all the mentioned weeds every year so this would be absolutely wonderful to add to my arsenal of garden gadgets!!
Bonita Watts says
We are in Tulsa, OK and it has been snowing and sleeting all day, strong winds and 15 deg.
Not many weeds yet but it will not take long when it warms up later this week.
Marysia Kleynen says
We have weeds here in Texas that only Satan himself would have created. This would be soooooo helpful!
Keila says
Hi Kevin! I would love to have a hori hori to add to my garden tools I currently own. I’m ready to start planting flowers and veggies! I have spring fever 🙂
Scott says
Nice tool. Would make a nice addition to the garden arsenal. Abominable moles and such.
Debi Sue says
Yes, please! And, thank you, Kevin, for giving us all a chance to have “fun” in our gardens when spring really shows up!
Marie Jordan says
Mildred Pierce, Whatever Happened to Baby Jane scared the heck out of me when I saw it as a child, I loved it though! Stay warm Kevin! Enjoy all your gardening tips and Recipes :))
Joan says
I’ve always wanted a hori-hori but have never gotten around to buying one. I just put it on my birthday wish-list so no matter what, I will get one this spring!
Bob Hess says
I could use one of these to eradicate Morning Glory and Thistles from my vegetable garden.
Sunny Alexander-Stitz says
I would love to have a diggy diggy tool!! 🙂 Pick me please? Thanks!
Denise Goodspeed says
We have way too many weeds around our home, so we can use all the help we can get!
Joy Harvey says
Thanks for all the great give aways Kevin! I’ve got my fingers crossed!
Linda R says
Not only would I use it in my flower garden and vegetable garden, I would use is for my metal detecting finds.
Sunni says
I’ll certainly look like a most impressive gardener with my “hay-seed sun hat” and a Hori-Hori on my belt! It looks like a handy/dandy tool.
Allison K says
Whatever Happened To Baby Jane — always!!! (And no, she’s not buried in my garden!!)
Cindy says
I think I should win the hori hori because I actually clicked on the gawd-awful tune link and spent about a half hour listening to 70’s tunes on you tube! 🙂
Susan B. says
Spring looks closer to arriving at your house than it here in Downeast Maine!
Susan M. says
Oh, maybe this tool would help me save my garden from being smothered in weeds!
Mary Kay says
Love all of your recipes! This would sure make my life easier this year!
Pamela says
I would love a tool that helps remove weeds easily, this looks like a great tool.
Sandra C says
We are trying to launch our community garden in a small town. Any kinds of tools would help out!
shayla says
In addition to ousting weeds, I think it would be an excellent way to oust intruders. Or scare someone taking a shower (think Psycho). That is one scary knife. I need it!
Daisy Skelly says
My winter garden is full of snow today.
Mary M says
This knife would be great to trim a small tree rootball into a square shape before planting.
This helps the tree to spread it’s roots evenly, getting it off to a good start.
Teal Lockard says
What a useful looking tool. We’re doubling the size of our vegetable garden this year so a hori hori knife would come in handy. Thank you for the opportunity to win.
Laura says
I would be thrilled to be spending my days digging out weeds with the Hori Hori verses the snow digging we have been doing now for months on end! I can’t wait for Spring and even the weeds that go along with it!
Gwyn says
Looking forward to digging in the dirt and would love to have a new tool!
Eileen says
I would use the Hori Hori on my assault on the invading garlic mustard in addition to general every day use. We just got 6 more inches of snow last night. Love the blog, thanks.
Laura says
Let me tell you how much I love to weed!
Mary Jouver says
Would love to have this tool…it looks amazing! I have a huge lawn full of weeds and I will not
Use pesticides on it. I use vinegar as a weed killer but the Hori Hori liooks like it would be a big help to me.
Love your newsletter, always makes my day!
Barb D says
Sitting in my cozy living room while we get blasted with another winter storm here in Cincinnati, Ohio. I would skin the Punxsutawney Groundhog, but can’t wrap my mind around it since I am originally from there. I have to forgive him one more time for missing this “last” storm. I can only dream of the day I can get outside and detangle the mess winter made around my home. I only wish I had the green thumb my mother had. Thank you for helping the garden challenged people of the world. I love getting your emails that not only inspire me to try to make my outdoor surroundings beautiful, but also challenge my cullunary skills. Keep the emails coming.
Lori says
I’m so ready to burn a few precious vacation days just to hang out in my beds preparing them for summer.
I’m not familiar with the Hori Hori but you’ve impressed me!
Barbara says
Thirteen winter milk jug greenhouses waiting for Spring!
k hussey says
Your/re awesome dude can i still plant bulbs? i received bulbs from holland as a gift.
k hussey says
Your/re awesome dude can i still plant bulbs? i received bulbs from holland as a gift.
wow look at all these comments!
Chuck Rasmussen says
Cool!
Laurie Jimenez says
I just love to say Hori Hori! Cool little tool!
Toby Simmons says
My wife would just LOOOOOVE to have that!!! 😀
Joanne says
Very cool tool. Once again you show me something new. Thank you!
Kathleen says
Maybe this giveaway will bring spring sooner?!?! Let’s hope…
Jane Childs says
A Hori Hori in Hawthorndene in the Adelaide Hills would mean a Huge Hurrah from Here Down Under! We have weeds Here too!
Bonnie Hilton says
I love reading your letters and I would love to have a Hori Hori tool.
Ngoc Nguyen says
I get my aggressions out when I’m weeding, this looks like it would be a big help!
Marianne says
Spring gardening must be right around the corner; I spotted a bluebird today, looking really annoyed about the snow we are receiving (again!) here in NJ.
Annie J says
I have long coveted my friend’s Hori Hori knife
Wendy W. says
“Hori cow Batman! this tool is amazing! We could use it in the batcave!”
Donna Dunbar says
If it will dig in the hard packed adobe earth here in Snowflake,AZ…then I can’t live without it.
Sherry Houser says
Here in the Pacific Northwest we had rain today but also had two beautiful bluejays eating from my bird feeders. Just amazing!
Kathy Winters says
I have used a hori-hori for years, and love them. Last fall mine got misplace – perhaps in the compost bin? – and I really miss it. Would love to have yours.
Ruth Cox says
in my current fight against my weed infested front lawn I would be delighted to have a useful tool with me! In other news we are getting birds back at our new feeder–a plucky sparrow, some chickadees, and one household member noted an oriole briefly!! Yay for daffodil time!!!
Nadia says
I would like the tool for my gardening. I only have raised beds & just started my garden last year. Plus the 6th is my birthday!
Gerry says
Been meaning to get one of these…….
Betty G says
Cool knife, would love it!
Whatever happened to Baby Jane?
Merrilee says
I am losing the battle with a weed that has an arrowhead shaped leaf and I am hoping the Hori Hori knife would conquer it. Thank you!
Brenda Grimm says
My husband has a tool for everything, but he doesn’t garden, if I had a hori hori I could one up him big time! We like to compete! And most importantly I would have a great tool for weeding!
Naomi Shelton says
Hubba-hubba, hori, hori! ( That just popped into my mind.) I love to weed! Weird, huh? Somehow it’s relaxing to me, sort of meditative. I bet this little tool would make it a lot more fun!
Alisa Frye says
Would really love to win this! I just moved into a house with a ton of flower beds that haven’t been touched in over a year.
Diana Carapezza says
Oh Joan..
Nanna Bolling says
I love your blog, and look forward to it every time. I have made the zuccini fritters and now they are a staple at our house–incredible way to use that prolific vegetable (I have never been a fan zuccini bread). Many of your recipes contain flour. We gluten-free folks can often substitute nut or rice flour, but with your expertise, suggestions for such substitutions would be appreciated. And your photos of the loving upgrades you have given the house are very inspiring. Next weekend I will be planting my winter garden for the second season. I had a lot of success last year, and was totally astonished at how those plants grew through snow and freezing weather. And they were so much stronger than any started in the house. What a gift of knowledge–one I will cherish for the rest of my gardening years. I would love to win the knife. It looks like an incredibly useful tool. Thanks for the opportunity.
Tiffany says
Always love your site, even without giveaways. Thanks!
Kellie R says
I’d love to have something to dig up those pesky dandelions…and make some tea or “coffee” with the root! Thanks for your generosity!
Donna says
Boy—do l need that tool!
Katherine says
It looks like a great tool! I have two plots in a community garden to keep weed free. Thanks for a chance on the hori hori!
Richard says
Could’a used the food processor to chop my Salad weeds but this tool will be Great to dig them up…
Thanks and keep up the Great Site….Love the Tips and Recipes.
Richard
Sigrid says
Thank you for your lovely site. It’s almost like a mini-vacation when I visit.
Patricia Sturdevant says
Hori Hori, I would love to win one! Weeds wouldn’t have a chance!
Janice says
My husband helped me build as all raised bed this weekend,haven’t decided what Iwant to plant most. I have also started a few winter sown seeds in milk jugs.Your website inspires me…I sure hope you know what you’re talking about! Btw, I would love to try out a new FREE gadget”
Mary says
Hurry, Hurry, send it my way. When it warms up here, someday soon I hope, I could use it in my yard for a multitude of jobs.
Melissa Rycroft says
I’ve been working on one weed since I bought my house – in 2005! I wonder if this tool could get rid of it?
Steven J. Schneider says
Domo arigato.
Leesa says
Last week, I was admiring new leaves on my strawberries and the bits of green showing on my roses. Today, they are covered in ice and the snow is falling. I’m so ready for spring!
Audrey Popp says
Now that looks like a tool I can use!
Teri Dalco says
cool tool!
David says
Hello my girl friend could really use this kind of tool be has to lay on her sides or her belly to dig or bull weeds and that out of the garden or flower beds she has a spinal cord injury and. Try’s really had to have a garden and try’s to have some nice flowers in the yard so you see by Allen’s this handy hori hori tool would come in handy to help her in her food garden and the flower bed thanks for listening we love reading your emails and letters please have a nice day or night it’s cold out right now we are getting more snow and ice in Indiana we pray& hope everyone is safe & well . Yours truly david
Joan E says
Great tool for my garden…especially after all my winter sowing is ready !!!!
Phyllis says
That looks like just the tool I need for my weeding jobs! Would love to win it! I love your newsletter and look forward to it each week. Thank you for brightening my weeks!
GardenerJane says
I could commit “Hari-Kari” with a new Hori Hori!
Thank you so much for this offer and for all the great ideas and pictures. Hope you “thaw out” soon!
Beverly Banta says
The weeding tool looks amazingly perfect for the pesky weeds in my garden.
What a delightful offereing!
Thank you!!!!
Madelynne Pursglove says
That looks like a fantastic tool. Thanks for the opportunity to win one. Seems a far cry from the skinny weed puller thingy I have now. I am so ready for spring and was going to try the winter sowing in milk jugs, but we are again expecting a snow storm, so I decided against it.
Myrna says
I had a vegetable garden with sandy loam soil – river flood plain. But I believe that the white piping I ran into a foot or so down may have been part of my neighbor’s drainfield.
I was digging dandelions in the vicinity of the suspected drainfield and one came out with a THREE-FOOT ROOT, INTACT. I am not kidding you. I now wish I had taken a picture of it.
Marjie T. says
Suggestion..wrap orange or pink duct tape around the handle of your hori nori – they can get lost in the garden so easily. My original was lost for an entire season but just needed a quick cleaning when it was found in late autumn. It was within feet of where I thought I lost it..perhaps the raccoons had borrowed it. I taped the handle as soon as I found it…a tracking device would not be a bad thing.
Jennie says
LOOKS LIKE A GOOD TOOL. WOULD LIKE TO TRY IT OUT.
Sharon says
Have plenty of weeds that would love to challenge this nifty tool!
Sarah says
Would love the chance to use the hori hori in my garden beds
Rebecca Madon says
WOW! Nice garden tool. Would love to have on of these sweet things… Thanks for the giveaways
Kevin, your the best…
Rebecca Askew says
I love my Japanese gardening knife. Because it weathers to a lovely soil color, I’m forever losing it in my garden! I need a spare…
Jan says
This looks like an awesome tool! And since I seem to have more than my share of weeds, I know I would put it to lots of good use!
Becky says
Oh please, please let it be me! I get rid of all my weeds by hand and could really use this tool! Thanks Kevin!
William says
Always wanted to try one!
Nancy Rygwelski says
This looks similar in operation to what I do with a shovel with big interlopers like daddelions Queen Anne’s lace etc. It looks like it could help get a target without disturbing those we want to flourish. Thank for your comfy and joyful message that gracious living is possible for everyone.
Kay daniels says
The winter mustard is in full bloom here in New Mexico – I need this tool for my weeding!!! thanks for the opportunity to win this tool.
Yvette Jones says
I am sooo looking forward to Spring and this little tool would be just the thing!
jane ferry stewart says
I would love to win this tool!
Terri Webster says
Would love to try this tool!
Lucinda Reams says
I can hardly wait for spring so I can get my fingers in the dirt. Thanks for the opportunity to win the Hori Hori knife.
Kim H says
Would love to use this instead of an old screwdriver! Thanks for the chance to win one!
Brigitte LaBelle says
I would love to win a hori hori. it looks like it’s just the right kind of tool for my gardening need. I have some dull tools that makes it difficult for me as I have arthritis and other joint problems. but I’m not giving up my gardening and flowers!
Elizabeth Piazzola says
Would love to win this weeding tool…after this winter I’m even looking forward to weeding!
Peggy says
We got lots of snow again today. Loved your article when you interviewed the elderly lady who talked about eating the dandelions. Reminded me of my husbands father who always ate them and cleaned them exactly the same way. I would put the “diggety, diggety” to good use in my flowerbeds.
Barbara Barefield says
We are still buried in snow and lots of slippery ice, so spring seems like a dream. Thank you for sharing your wonderful home, recipes, garden ideas and give-away gifts! Can’t wait to weed, just like I can’t wait to pick up all the frozen dog poop from our St. Bernard, who loves this cold weather. But seriously, I can’t wait to see grass, flowers popping up, and even weeds at this point. Warm regards from freezing Detroit.
Jan says
Really need this hori hori! We are in the process of turning our entire lot into a garden & so
there are always weeds to be done away with! Last year we put the front yard in & so we’ve got about 1/2 done. Exciting!!!
Carolyn says
Here is a western suburb of Chicago we still have snow cover and freezing temperatures but the longer rays of the sun are melting the piles of dirty snow which I hate. I love the white stuff. We lived in Japan for a year and saw this kniofe in frequent use. Would love to have one. Think spring. Hot cross buns are coming soon-one of life’s true joys.
June D says
You are always such a hoot! I laugh, learn and dream while reading your posts. This week I’m weeding my native California plant filled front yard. Then we will reset up our vegetable planters in the back yard. I can more easily make items with yeast (I put the covered bowls on the planters edge – I can see the progress of the rise as I use a glass bowl). So Showshoe Naan will be made! Thank you for putting my name in the hat for the terrific Hori Hori knife! Best!
James b says
wow, what an interesting looking tool! I do hope you ship overseas… 🙂
Milly says
Love your website and enjoy all the neat recipes and gardening help! That tool definitely would be a great asset to our backyard. We are wintering in southern California and Southern Arizona for 4 months. Out temps back home still are hovering around -40 and still lots of snow!! Thanks for the chance of winning the Hori Hori! Would be a new tool for me, for sure.
Lynda B says
Looks like that handy tool could make mincemeat of the nasty and persistent weeds that like to poke up in my flower beds. Thanks for the opportunity and for your fun and informative webpage.
Julie Cook says
Looking forward to the great thaw here in Rochester and the opportunity for a little diggy diggy.
Amy says
Would love a high quality weeding tool as I don’t want to rely on chemicals for a better looking lawn.
wilbur says
Just scrolling through the entries, stopping along the way to read finally brought me to a place in line. So I entered and await my time.
Hori hori
Enjoy your blog
Judy Hammersley says
Kevin, sure do enjoy your blog about the garden, house & recipes.I could put the knife to good use
Judy Hammersley says
Kevin, Sure do enjoy your web site blog about the garden, house & recipes. I will put the knife to good use. Thank you so much.
Judy Hammersley says
Ops didn’t mean to post twice, sorry
Jeanne says
I have tree roots in my lawn and it makes it very hard to plant anything. I think the Hori Hori will make short work of those pesky things. 🙂
Ben KARLIN says
We are trying to get a garden established. It has taken three years but THIS may be our year. Thanks for the encouragement and information.
Joan Crawford? It has to be Lady in a Cage, Motor cycle gang invades the home of Ms Crawford who is trapped and taunted in her home elevator.
Or Trog: Lady paleontologist discovers a troglodyte living in the cave at the back of her garden and a little one-sided romance ensues.
Georgette says
My favorite movie by Joan Crawford has to be “What Ever Happened to Baby Jane”…………a great movie.
Judy says
right now my favorite tool is my snow shovel. I know my garden is somewhere under the 1-2′ of snow. My seedlings are growing in the house and can’t wait to get outside as soon as the snow melts. I would love a hori hori tool to replace my shovel and help with all the weeds! Thanks for your awesome blog!
Linda says
Please pick me, pick me I need to weed
Rochelle Lynch says
Love your page and blog. The Hori Hori looks a great tool for a learner like me!!
Molly says
Have wanted one of these since I saw a friend use one
Gretchen Mutaf says
Your photos and tips are great. I keep thanking my friend for recommending your site to me. Thank you for making your knowledge available to all of us.
Meg says
I’ve heard nothing but great things about thiz tool and would love to have one. Count me in!
Kathleen says
I have tons of weeds especially prickers and would love this tool! Hoping to find a way to rid the weeds and not use a lawn service. If I don’t win, looking to buy one!
Glenn says
OK. My birthday is Saturday and one of these would work for me! Of course with the number of visitors you have this is like winning the lottery. Everyone, Have a great day!
shirley a says
Our gardening season is so short, anything to make weeding faster & easier would be great. More time to enjoy the garden!
Mary says
This would be perfect for digging weeds in our clay soil!
Susan says
Yes please! I would love one!
Anita Skelly says
Having a Hori Hori would deffinately be better than my Labradoodle “Clancy” digging the weeds, along with the plants, I had just planted. He is Mommy’s helper. And when he helps it only take me twice as long to plant!! Love my baby boy!!
Kyle says
I’m in!!
This tool would be such a help! I’ve never seen one before.
I might try baking those naan breads. I make pizza naan breads every Thursday (pizza) nite.
Our favorite toppings are fresh basil or sautéed peppers and onions. The naan breads are perfect for this.
Cindy Marino says
I believe we have one of a kind weeds in our yard and this tool would really be nice to have….when spring arrives 🙂
Wendey Watson says
wow…what a neat piece of gardening gear this is – I live in Bulgaria and sourcing things like this is like looking for a unicorn in the Stara Planina mountains (where we live) I have a typical Bulgarian digger – a doody little angled axe that does most things, just not unearth weeds without taking out a sizeable piece of earth around it. I appreciate if I won this I would have to pay postage and would gladly do so.
ps I love your recipes and your marmalade cake is a regular favourite of my hubbys’.
Maggie says
Wonderful tool. We are lucky in the Portland area to have Red Pig Tools (check out their web). Bob makes tools to order and teaches how to use them. We have a carpool going to his
place next week to learn how to sharpen and use our tools properly.
Hori Hori knife great for the dandelions roots, ground and dried for a healthy tea.
Nancy says
More heavy snow in southeast PA today but I picked snowdrops last week, so the gardening season has officially started for me. Where there are flowers, there are weeds. Looks like a wonderful tool.
edrward drach says
Having this item would make it a lot easier to do all my weeding. Would love to try it.
Rhonda says
Hi,
Not sure the Joan Crawford story, but certainly was an outstanding actress – maybe gardener as well? I’ve read about the hori hori tool for a few years – always tempted to purchase one, but never do. Would enjoy – thanks.
Rhonda
Edie says
Stainless steel, too!, sounds like just what I need to battle the weeds that dare appear in my gardens.
Stephanie Brock says
I would love to try this tool. I’m always fighting the weeds since I don’t use sprays. Thanks for the opportunity:-)
Hilary says
As Master Gardeners, we could really use this one. I’m certain the random number will not be this high. Great response Kevin.
Remy says
I’ve been wanting one of these after I used someone else’s at a community garden event!! I would use it to dig comfy holes for my 1500 transplants this spring!
Loura says
I would love to win this. I do a lot of weeding and am always looking for tools to make it easier.
winnie says
usually weed with my hand, would love to own a hori hori knife 🙂
Thanks!
Lindsay says
Looks like a very efficient little tool! Seems like it would be very easy to use for someone who with carpal tunnel or even arthritis. Would like to win this for my spring garden this year!
Kate says
I would LOVE one of these tools. It would make me less depressed at the thought of all that weeding of my gravel driveway that’s coming all too soon. Though it’s a happy thought that spring will mean the snow is OVER…
Monica Gray says
I have never seen one of these. How could I have gone this long without one!
Mark Martin says
The only thing that has me thinking Spring here in Michigan are my Bee Balm seedlings patiently waiting in their seed trays. Ugh -5 degrees this morning!
Tawna says
I would love to win one of these great tools! Thanks.
Susan says
At this point in the season, I would welcome the opportunity to see anything green, including a dandelion.
Maryann Massar says
This tool would certainly come in handy in my NY home gardens. Since I certainly need to invest in some more protective edging, my spring routine will be plucking out all the unwanted invaders trying to make their way into my flower and herb gardens. This would help make the work a little easier. Thanks for the great gardening tip and giveaway.
Eileen says
Hi
Please enter me in your contest to win this great weeding tool ! I did my first vegetable garden last year and I am hooked ! 🙂
This year I will try starting the vegetables from seed.
Great blog, thank you!
Jean says
Looks like GREAT tool.
Donna says
I love my hori hori tool, but have found that the serrated edge tends to get dull rather quickly. My last one was a bit more expensive and hopefully will remain sharp for longer!
Marjorie says
Would love a new tool to help me get ahead of those pesky weeds.
Linda B says
Not a fan of Joan Crawford, but I could certainly use the Hori Hori knife to do some serious damage to the dandelions that seem to enjoy my back yard in abundance!
Mamie says
The horizon horizon knife would be so much better than the old kitchen fork I use now. And it would probably help preserve my fingernails!
Sportsmama says
Kevin, I must say you come up with the best gardening and kitchen tools. I love your blog, and look forward to reading it every week. I really can’t wait until your cookbook comes out!
Lorie says
I would love a new gardening tool! I have a lot of Burdock and other weeds to attack!
Behold says
I’ve got some wild onions I too need to get rid of as well as curly dock and other weeds this tool would be very useful for. I to like to keep around some dandelions. I have 1 dandelion plant that is allowed to live in one of my gardens; the rest have to stay in the lawn. The real trick is keeping up with deadheading the garden dandelion so it doesn’t spread it’s seeds all over the garden.
Marie says
I need all the help I can get controlling the weeks in my yard.
Linda says
Would love one!!!
Liz says
Would love to have this for the spring!
Lise says
I have used mine for so many things for so many years, and the handle has broken! I can’t garden without one!
Alice Goodwin says
This tool is new to me. I would love to own one.
Nelson Powell says
Am trying my first 2 jugs of winter sowing. Sure feels funny to put seeds out in Jan. here in western NY
Nora says
I could sure use the hori hori tool to diggy diggy some dandelions to get the roots so that i can roast them to make some dandelion coffee!
Cosmo says
I just love sharp shiny objects and the weeds wouldn’t stand a chance
Liz in Salem says
Ah, another tool in my arsenal of weeding implements. It could join my awesome swoe as I nurture my gardens…once they come out from under 3′ of snow! Thank you for the opportunity to win an effective tool.
kitty farrell says
I’ve been wanting to get my hands on one of these knives for years! It would sure help to tackle the backlog of weeds in my “experimental” and neglected section of the garden! Thanks for the chance to win!
tina says
my front yard has that same pesky onion grass!!! I would love to try out the hori hori on it…it might actually turn into something fun 🙂 thanks for the chance to participate
Cassandra Early says
Perfect!!!!
Lesley Larsen says
I’d love to win a weeding tool. I can hardly wait to start gardening but here in Quebec’s high Laurentians we won’t be rid of snow until late April and work won’t be able to start until at least then. I’ve an old bed to bring back so the tool would be a great help. This is a great website – love the gardening and cooking combo – great recipes, ideas and inspiration. Thanks so much for your posts.
Sue V says
Looks like a great tool to help with the wacky weeds . I could also use a machete for the ornamental bittersweet that is trying to overtake the garden. I bet Joan would approve!
Vera says
Hi Kevin, just found your site a couple of weeks ago and am enjoying it immensely. Would love to win the hori hori to try on those pesky weeds once all the snow melts. I am not that far from you. Am south of Albany. Thanks for the chance to participate.
Lise Neer says
Fantastic tool, also being advertised in the gardening journal I design for (Colorado Gardener)! Would love to try it on my stubborn, clay-bound weeds here in Denver!
Lynne says
Crocus’s are up and the tulips are just sticking their heads above the ground. Thinking spring but winter just keeps hanging on.
Tressa says
I can’t count the money I have spent on tools that are supposed to do the chores you mentioned. I would love to give this one a try.
Janet says
Lovely! Looks like it would put extra muscle in my weeding.
Suzan says
I saw this chosen by our local horticulturist at Phipps Conservatory in Pittsburgh as their favorite tool. I would love to use it myself in my own garden and when I garden at our church. Thanks for a fantastic website. I have my seeds starting outside (which were very successful last year) and have made multitudes of recipes (looking forward to your cookbook) and have enjoyed the no fail approach and fabulous taste results. Thank you
Linda says
Looks great anything to make weeding easier thanks
Linda says
Looks great anything to make weeding easier thanks
Janet says
This has become my absolute favorite gardening tool since someone gave one as a gift to my husband. I used it so much, I had to buy one for myself. It’s the best weeder ever, and I use the serrated side for trimming. It works great. I’d love to have one to give to a friend.
Vivian says
A great way to combat weeds. thanks.
Marilyn Martin says
I would love to win this tool because it’s so versatile. For instance, I have oranamental grasses that spread too easily throughout my butterfly garden. When they sprout up in front of the smaller plants, I need to cut them out. The blade on this hori hori tool looks like a perfect helper!
Nancy McKittrick says
I remember reading that blog post, I never miss one. Since we have the same weeds, I really need that to get me activate in my 39 year old gardens. I’m going to try the salad recipe, my grandmother did the greens like spinach, last year I used them in my juicing.
Really think you have the very best blog out there. Thank you for all you do for us.
Chris says
My wife and I would love to use this during our first year participating in a community garden, starting soon!
Denise says
I would love to see how it gets the weeds out of my compacted clay soil we have here in Hawaii. Have yet to find anything that will take a weed out with ripping it to shreds and leaving half the roots.
Cheryl B. says
Maybe I would actualy be able to get to the roots of weeds with this!
Jan says
This tool looks amazing! Living on a small farm in CA; would definitely get good use out of this. Thanks for your blog…loving the recipes.
Elizabeth Wiggins says
I am amazed at the number of entries. You’re going to have a devil of a time to put them all into a pot and pick only one.
I enjoy your letter each time it comes, I’ve tried your milk jug seeding, the only thing is when there’s no rain you have to remember to water the seedlings.
I would like to have half a chance in winning this special tool. I not I’ll have to see about buying one.
Mickey Lonsdale says
jUST WHAT i NEED TO FINALLY TAME THE WEEDS IN MY YARD.
Patsy says
Weeding/gardening is such a great way to relax and I would love to win this tool to assist me!
Charlotte DeBoer says
Hi Kevin, thank you for your generous give aways. I would love to have a digging knife like the one you have shown us as most of the diggers I use just bend when I give them a good arching lift. A substantial tool like this would be a blessing.
Scott says
Hi Kevin, this is my first comment (I think). The hori-hori knife looks groovy. And incidentally, I want you to know that I was really stoked to learn about winter sowing. I have a whole bunch of seeds sown on my balcony, in a little greenhouse. It was super exciting to get that done in the middle of winter. It made me really giddy in anticipation of the spring garden season. And it makes sense, as it mimics nature’s way. What a great way to begin synchronizing with nature so early in the year. Thanks a lot!
Gay Sullivan says
Wow, I thought it would be spring by the time I got a chance to post! Anxious to see what is under the snow and if my boxwood cuttings(ala kevin) survived. I also use the newspaper/cardboard method for new beds. Would love a Hori Hori. Thanks
Denise Bussiere says
uh-oh. Lot’s of competition out there for the tool. Maybe the snow Gods will shine on me during the drawing.
Lisa Mitchell says
I would love any help I can get weeding!!
Thank you Kevin for all your tips, yummy recipes and giveaways!!
Cynthia Milliman says
Too cold here to do much gardening – I live just about 30 minutes from the Gulf of Mexico in Louisiana – usually our winters are relatively mild – but today it is 40 degrees with a wind chill of 25 – don’t laugh at us – we are so not used to this cold air. We have had 3 hard freezes (one down to 11 degrees) and all the plants in my ward are dead. But – oooohhh nooooo – not the weeds – they are growing like wildfire. BTW, my favorite Joan Crawford film is “Whatever Happened to Baby Jane?”
Tracy says
Hi Kevin,
What a great gift idea. I always think March and April are the cruelest months, so taunting. By the end of March, I’ve practically lost my gardening will to live… I’ve read about hori hori’s, but never owned one, and with all the weeding and relocating of wee seedlings in store for me once this winter finally ends, I’d love to receive one! I also have 24 milk jugs sown in January…and can’t wait to see some action!
elinfl says
Hooray! Hooray! for the Hori Hori
Jocy McCormick says
Hori Hori looks like the perfect weapon for my war again the Bindweed that’s invaded my flower bed.
Laurine says
Have pulled up front lawn and turned the whole area into an arganic neighborhood garden. Magical way for neighbors to have fun, and get to know each other! It would be great to add this to our collection of gardening tools! Especially with Spring and healthy weeds making the scene.
Thanks for making this tool known to us.
Angela says
I’ve had this on my must get list since you first wrote about it- but haven’t run across one yet- will have to search online too!
lindyloree says
I love what you share. Love to have a tool called hori hori.
Heather says
I started reading the comments above but concluded it may take the rest of the day, hehe
Ann Honer says
Would love a Hori Hori.
Cindy says
My husband got into gardening 2 years ago and is now hooked. He would love to have the Hori Hori. Love your site!
Anne Efron says
Do you think the ground will ever thaw! I’d love to have a tool called a Hori Hori! for the name alone.
love your blog! thank you for sharing.
Anne Gormely says
What a wonderful weeding tool. If I don’t win one, I just may have to purchase one!
Sheryl says
I have started my winter sowing, so I am not quite so eager for spring yet…since I feel like it will come in good time. And, I fear I might be the person that comment #26 is talking about: while my flower and vegetable gardens tend to look pretty good, my lawn is, well, more weeds than grass…and I don’t care! But I would love to have the Hori Hori to get the pesky weeds out of some of my newer flower beds.
Leslie Underwood says
I would love the opportunity to win this unique weed killer!!
Love your site, thanks for all your inspiration
Jamie says
Here I am buried in snow again, I might use this knife to cut through the ice! Love your wit & wisdom Kevin, you make my day better when I receive your mail! Thank-you
Blessings,
Jamie
Maria Locatell says
This looks perfect for weeding and planting! I need one! I think all my friends will too 🙂
Maria
Debbie says
Hi Kevin!
Thank you for the knife recommendation! I will be sure and try one out! I will be out weeding long before it looks like you will! Your part of the country has really had a winter!
Thank you too for all of your great recipes. I made your Figgy Pudding at Christmas, it was a great hit! I have never tryed one of your posted recipes that wasn’t fabulous. I also love seeing your garden and hearing all your gardening tips!
Stay warm, spring is coming!
Debbie
Meryl Oliver says
I’d love to see what that hori hori knife could do for my tough California Dandelions which grow 5 feet tall and don’t have tasty leaves! Consider me intrigued!
Susan says
Any garden would be proud to have a tool like that!
I like Joan Crawford’s earlier films, especially Our Blushing Brides. The clothes of the 1930s are marvelous.
Robin Walker says
Wow this looks like wonderful tool for the garden!
Victoria Rose says
Getting raised beds installed and this will come in handy!
Jane says
Looks like the perfect weapon to continue, and perhaps even win, my yearly battle with horseradish roots that are determined to spread absolutely everywhere.
Elaine Parker says
I think it would be a great help to me, since I have difficulty weeding due to chronic pain. It looks like it would make quick work of weeding. Also a great reminder of my very first time of hearing of winter gardening. I am now saving milk containers….thank you!
Elaine
Rocky Crutchfield says
Kevin, my son-in-law is Japanese and will be 50 his next birthday. I need something extrodinary to give him that will show my knowledge of Japanese tradition. I don’t know if he needs it, but to be able to say “Hora, Hora” after one of his sensational dinners, would give me the lead on family member points.
Signed,
Mother-In-Law Moving Up!
Vickie says
I would try this out on many kinds of weeds.
diana murphy says
THINK SPRING! We to are still cold and snowy here in northern N.H.
Jan says
I really enjoy your blog. I’ve learned a lot from you, too!
Marilyn says
Would love to have this little garden jewel!
Lauren Michelle says
I would stab weeds and dig up bunching onions with this!
P Miranda says
It’s been a hard winter, and I’m desperate to get out into the garden–even if just to tackle weeds! Thanks for the chance!
Liza coonse says
Even here in the south, we can’t seem to find an end to winter. I have plastic stadium cups over my mini iris. My daffodil blooms are ice covered and I fear for their lives. Maybe the March ice will kill some weeds? Or maybe I will need a shiny new weed removing tool??
BJ Foster says
I need a new tool!!
Ellen says
Looks like a tool that could do some damage to the weeds in my gardens! I hope that using it
would help eradicate the worst offenders in my garden. Thanks for the opportunity.
Lisa says
This is on my wish list for this season! Love this post!
alvin rutledge sr. says
I am a Master Gardener and I have never owned a Hori Hori knife, I ‘m looking forward to the opportunity to hopefully owning one with this contest and putting it to good use!
Lee McCann says
what a wonderful idea. I’ve been saving the newspaper to cover the weeds and this knife
could finish off the fast growers. Thanks, Lee
Donna Selckmann says
Hooray for the Hori!!! Would like to see how it works on my mother-in-law weed.
Bridget says
I’ll welcome any sign of spring!!
Theresa Posluszny says
Excited you are doing this give-a-way again … maybe this is my SEASON! You are such a help with your emails, keeping my on track. My tummy is always thrilled , and my home & garden a continued blessing with your help. Thank you!
Kelly M says
My friend bought one of these last summer and has been totally bragging and making me sooo jealous. Hopefully I can totally one-up her and win this one from you. Go me !
Maggie says
How do we protect our vegtables and ourselves from the poisons that the rockefellers/u.n./military government are dumping on us from the sky, night and day?
Denise says
Hi. This is the 1st time to your blog and I have enjoyed and will be coming back. Would live to have this tool. You have a great following.
Krista says
I get a sense of warped satisfaction every time I manage to yank out a dandelion and its entire root. My success rate isn’t great, this would help!
Beth says
Mr Hori Hori will find lots of work at my place!!!
Beth Emhoff says
I could use this to dig out these pesky deep rooted vines that are in one of my garden beds! Well…I could at least try to dig these things out. At the end of the world, I think these vines and cockroaches will be all that is left!
Diane TG says
WOW! Something that will take out burdock! (it took me 2 years to learn the name of that “weed from heck!” ) X <—-those are my crossed fingers in the hope that I'll come up lucky in your drawing. If not……..well ….I'm off to the garden shop. Thanks, Kevin!
Camille Clifford says
What a cool tool! May need it to dig a hole in the snow to reach the garden!!
Cheryl E. says
Kevin, I love everything you do-you always inspire me! Would love to win the Hori Hori. Thanks!
Sandy T. says
I’m entering because I just like the fun name ‘hori hori.’ What I really want to tell you is I’ve got 23 milk jugs on my porch…..so excited…..never tried Winter Sowing before…..can’t wait and thank you so much.
Kim says
Kevin, I look forward to and enjoy your newsletters! I’m thinking up my very own hori hori song to sing while wielding this cool tool (if I win). Otherwise, I’m just going to sing the song anyway….it keeps my neighbors guessing. Have a great day!
Cary Bradley says
You’ve sold me. I love my aluminum trowel, but a serrated edge would be very helpful in the grasses I’ve neglected which encroached into my veg garden last year. Cleanup this spring will be challenging and a serrated edge would help. Thanks, Kevin!
Pam says
I learned about the Hori Hori knife in Master Gardener class. Would love to have one!
Lisa Gilbertsen says
I would love to have a diggy-diggy tool! I am inspired by your awesome blog to become a gardener…it doesn’t hurt that my husband already is one! I never really wanted to get involved before…I was happy just enjoying the fruits of his labor…but between the two of you I’m growing a green thumb!!
Carolyn Riccardino says
Ooh Mr. Hori Hori looks like something I need in my life!
Delores Short says
My garden could use your hori hori -I enjoy your newsletters so much-would love to win
Thank you sooo much!
Dana Freeman says
Nothing clever- just want that hori hori thangie’a ma jig. And, I love your site. Use it all the time.
Deb Essex Willocks says
I am new to your site. Thanks to my neighbor for sharing your site and winter sowing information! With all of this sowing-I am going to need a hori hori this spring. And I may need to share it with my neighbor! Thanks for all of your great ideas. It makes winter a brighter place.
Barb says
That would look great in my hands that are itching to get in the garden.
CathyJ says
I have a plethora of weeds and sure could use the Hori-Hori. My poor trowel is on it’s last leg and I don’t have a good weed digger.
Joan Crawford in “Possessed” (but Clark Gable helped make the movie!)
Elaine Michaels says
I love your site and the things you say but most of all – all the lovely, lovely photos!
Kathy says
I have SERIOUS “knife envy” going on right now!!! Since I finally have some natives mature enough to need digging/dividing this year (and I also have stobborn weeds to erradicate), I can think of a THOUSAND uses for this bad boy. IF the snow every melts in Michigan and I can get out and play in the dirt, I’d love to have this tool in my hand 🙂
Carole68 says
I’m trying my luck again this year ! This tool would be super handy and useful on all the dandelions or pesky potentilla that have long roots from my garden. Love your blog and all the useful advice and lovely recipes. Love from France.
Donna Tew says
Just bought an older home “as is”…..nuff said. Starting over….any help appreciated.
Sarah Batzloff says
those darn burdocks try to take over my yard! i would love to use the Hori Hori knife to attack them! 🙂
Maria says
Last year when I saw your posting and I did not win it, I went asking for the knife at many garden centers but could not find it, I hope my luck is better this time ! Kevin if you are reading this message can you please give me the name of the dish that you prepared with chick pea flour? I lost the recipe and I have bought the flour to prepare it …. it did look like a tortilla and because it is gluten free I will like to prepare it! Thank you in advance!
Dana Hutchinson says
I would love to have a tool like that, I just have a plain hand shovel to use for all my gardening needs, never seen one with teeth on the side of it.
Helen Gildea says
This tool sounds like the perfect solution for my weeds! Can’t wait to try it!
Candi says
There should be a “to the bottom” button. I scrolled all the way down, then accidentally touched the top of my tablet and needed up back at the top. I had to scroll al over again. I usually read a lot of the comments along the way, but I’m not in the mood today, probably because it’s not Sunday.
Thanks for the tip about putting a heating pad under the dough bowl to get dough to rise in a cold house. It worked great!!
Chris says
This looks like a wonderfully designed gardening tool!
Suzanne says
i made the leek & potato soup recipe you posted recently. it’s freakin fantastic. everyone in my family loved it. it was so easy to make too. i think i need to grow some leeks this summer. i can’t wait for garden season, weeds & all.
Robin Hamann says
Kevin, I have a Hori Hori and LOVE it! I never imagined that weeding could be relaxing. This knife makes it pretty simple. If I win, I’m going to give it to my friend that doesn’t have one, she needs it! Thanks and love your website!
Nancy H says
This is a tool that I would love to have. I would put it to very good use.
Ilene says
Diggy Diggy…that is one Kool Tool…hope I win or I’m gonna have to go shopping. 🙂
Sharon says
That knife belongs in my garden tool bin! (Yes, the bin said so! 😉 ) And I agree with Irene, I will
have to go shopping if I’m not the winner.
Lois says
Well, no “gracious lady” gardening with THAT tool! I sure do wish that spring would Hurry Hurry so that anyone with a Hori Hori will be able to use it!
Cassandra Suarez-Hanson says
My hands would seriously appreciate my using something, anything other than only my hands for weeding our garden all summer. I think the Hori Hori would work nicely.
Aly says
A new weeding tool would be very welcome in my garden.
Thank you Kevin, for the chance to win.
Suzanne says
Looks great for fighting the never-ending thistles that pop up in my garden!
Huong says
Hi Kevin,
found your website thru facebook via African Violet. I love these flowers and have few pots in bloom right now.
I am in Phoenix, AZ so it is more “heat” than “cold”.
I have a question: what did you do with this kind of “grass”?
Allium canadense — sometimes called “Onion Grass”
thanks.
Huong
Sue ott says
Hori, Hori can you see
You belong with me!
Kevin, after gardening for 20+years! I realize how important the quality tools are to ease the frustration of weeding. Can’t wait for this snow to disappear and get out and smell the fresh ground. I have seeds sprouting!
Diane R. Ecker says
I work at a produce and garden center and have written down your website for a lot of my customers to view. Keep up the good work. Tomorrow I’m going to redo my african violets . Off to your page to see how to do it,
Kim Miller says
Awesome looking tool. Was sick last gardening season here in Pa and I have a jungle under ice and snow. Looks like this would work wonders.
George Golden says
No snow and warm, could use it now!
Rachel Clark says
I have lost not one, but two, hori-hori knives. It’s my very favorite tool and if I should be so lucky as to win this one, I will immediately paint the handle some outrageous color not found in nature. Then, if I lose it, it might be easier to find!
Maureen says
Even though the ground is still frozen and covered with snow, I am getting very anxious to dig in my garden and see what comes up in the garden I helped put in last fall at my sister’s new house!
Katherine Cope says
Those favorite wild violets will be tamed with the Hori Hori into a border edging in my coming- along- each- year shade garden. And then there’s those rampant lily of the valley that need thinning, and then, and then – there’s always more to do just so I can dig in the dirt!
Shirley says
Kevin- the Hori Hori looks like it would be a fine compliment to my arsenal of garden tools!! I am soooo looking forward to spring and plan to attend one of your garden tours!! Thanks !!
Bianca Woodhams says
Very honored to be able to see your posts! Thank you for them. You are quite an amazing person!
Linda Dodd says
Mildred Pierce, is only one of my favorites. I like the idea of the diggy, diggy, but I would give it to my daughter-in-law who LOVES to garden. I do enjoy your posts.
LInda C says
I was checking out your recipe for cinnamon rolls and one thing leads to another, in this case to a hori hori. What a cool garden tool!
Debbie says
Awesome!!!!!
BarbR7 says
I started using a hori-hori about 20 years ago. It has remained my favorite and most essential gardening tool. I could always use another, because, unfortunately, I sometimes put mine down in the garden, get distracted, and then can’t find it again right away. I had thought of painting the handle a fluorescent yellow, but that would destroy the essence of hori-horiness. Now, I did not know it meant diggy-diggy!
joani says
Love garden tools & have several but not a hori-hori. Makes me want to get out in the garden as we’re starting to occasionally get some spring weather here in the NW.
constantine says
I hope you are right about spring being around the corner. It’s been a long cold winter!
Linda says
That knife would be really helpful in my yard!
Shelly says
That Joan Crawford tomato trellis story was too funny!!!
Maggie says
I love your Joan Crawford “comments.”
Devon says
I’m hoping to have my first garden this year, and may just need a knife like that to fight those weeds!
Val says
Hope I just made it just under the wire for the hori hori knife draw….looks like a fantastic tool.
s.a. rezek says
I’m anxious for spring!!!!!
Sarah Jamesse says
one of my fav Joan Crawford films is – Whatever Happened to Baby Jane?
good luck to everyone including me 😀
Janet Rinn says
I would love a knife like this!
Barb says
Going to be a beautiful day to use a knife like this
Deborah says
I just saw this handy gadget the other day, and thought wow this would be very handy. If I could win it, that would be super. Great site, Kevin – thank you.
kay wolter says
I gave a wider one then this to My Mother in law last Mothers Day and She really likes it but when I help Her I keep telling Her to watch out She might find it missing someday….smile thanks for a great site Looks like Michigan
Bev Barnes says
I have lots of onion grass and would love to try it out on all of mine. Also would work great on my sticky vines that grow around the rocks and when I say sticky I mean stick your finger not stick to your fingers. I hate them. Keep the good stuff coming!
Maricela Infante says
I would love to be the owner of a Hori, Hori to try it in my garden!
Michele Layne says
What a great tool! Multiple uses in one tool what could be better! Weeds beware!