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HomeGarden StoreGarden Hand ToolsBonsai ToolsJapanese Hori Hori Garden Landscaping Digging Tool With Stainless Steel Blade & Sheath |
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80 of 81 found the following review helpful:
Hori Hori: Best Garden Tool I Have/BEST GARDENER GIFT May 07, 2005
By C. L. Riskin
"Garden Writer"
WEEDS SCREAM AND RUN when they see me coming with the hori hori. (Note that I don't know whether one hori hori brand is any better than another. It's the tool itself that's so great.)
If I could, I'd get one for each of my gardener friends. Sometimes I might need a spade or pruners or shovel, but overall, the hori hori is often the only tool I take outside to plant and weed.
Solid, unbending steel helps pry out deep weeds or dig a hole even in packed clay or gravel. The serrated edge is great for butterflying root-bound plants. And the centimeter markings helps me properly place seedlings and bulbs.
One thing I'd recommend that's been really helpful for me is to paint the handle with fluorescent paint AND tie some long (15-20") fluorescent plastic tape through the hole so that you don't lose it in the dirt; there'll always be some pink or orange ribbon sticking out even if you bury the hori-hori by mistake.
I've buried my hori hori twice. Once I actually called the local metal detector club to help me find it (it was within plain view of my back door for 4 months). The other time, I just ran out and bought a new one.
I've never damaged the blade on one of these. I killed the wood handle by leaving it buried for 10 months in soggy Seattle, but I still use the blade alone.
ANOTHER GARDEN TOOL RECOMMENDATION: Get a Circle Hoe.
132 of 141 found the following review helpful:
A Universal Garden Helper May 24, 2007
By Magdalena Bassett
You open the gift box. Yes! it's just what you wanted! You drop the wrapping paper, leave the wine glass, and the astonished friends, you zoom out to the garden even though it's perfectly dark by now, and you find that dandelion illuminated by the front door's light. You heft the hori hori in your hand. You are a warrior. You are invincible. The enemy will die. This sturdy, hefty tool feels great in the palm of your hand. It easily slides into the soil alongside the offending dandy. A little pressure, and pop! the root, the leaves, the whole rosette of the heinous green Medusa is air born like a cork out of a bottle. You think yes! finally! the war is over, I am The Gardener.
28 of 30 found the following review helpful:
 Not The Same Knife As Pictured May 08, 2011
By J. Fleming
Knife seems pretty good. Bought it for setting Cinch Traps. I think the Tang Goes about 1/2 way back into the handle just past the second rivot.
I cannot give 5 or even 4 stars because the item I received is not the item pictured. The pictured knife is a Greep Top stamped and the one I received is Nisaku. The blade is VERY Magnetic too so I don't see how it can be stainless steel. It is made in japan though. it looks like Amazon SKU B003UMVPMM (which also says stainless but I don't see how it can be). Going to contact amazon now since being stainless seems pretty important when it comes to this sort of tool. I could have bought another non stainless version for a lot less money.
15 of 15 found the following review helpful:
Brilliant! Jun 25, 2009
By trubleu
"trubleu"
I've had it only twelve hours and wonder how I ever got along in the garden without it. What a wonderful tool! I have already used it as a trowel for planting; the blade made short work of an interfering tree root. I loosened weed roots in a flower bed for easy removal without disturbing a lot of soil, and pried weeds from the cracks in the sidewalk. Edging along the front walk was a breeze. I like it that there is a hole in the handle for easy hanging, too.
12 of 12 found the following review helpful:
 Robust design and a handy garden tool Aug 20, 2009
By S. McBurney
I bought the Hori Hori stainless steel garden knife because an equivalent product that I had purchased previously broke after a few months of use. That tool (a Fiskars product) worked fine until a design flaw in the handle resulted in the handle coming apart. The Hori Hori knife has a very robust handle and blade which allows it to survive the stresses induced when I pry out tough weeds. One feature that the Fiskars product had that I really liked was a groove cut into the pointed end of the blade. That grove was very useful in grabbing the stems of weeds which made it much easier to pry them out of the soil. The Hori Hori knife doesn't have this notch. I bought two Hori Hori knives so I may modify one of them to add a notch just to see if I can replicate that feature. All in all, the Hori Hori is a very useful tool (even without the notch) and I would recommend it to every gardener.
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