Here's a quick guide to help you choose the perfect garden hoe. An essential gardening tool, a hoe is a long-handled tool with a thin metal blade used to work the soil, either in the ground or in ...

The stirrup hoe is so much better than the hand weeders and cultivators I’ve used in the past because I can weed from a standing position that reduces the strain on my body. The tool can be ...

The Fiskars Xact Weed Puller and Wilkinson Sword Dutch Hoe Carbon Steel are among this year’s best long-handled weeding tools ...

Putting it to the test Hand weeding half of a 10-by-20-feet garden took Wirecutter staffer Sebastian Compagnucci around 15 minutes, whereas using a stirrup hoe on the other half took seven minutes.

The tool is a combination of a fire axe and an adze (or hoe), allowing firefighters to chop or dig with the flip of a wrist. Its design has remained largely unchanged since its creation over 100 ...