I have always admired how weed free the beds at small farm are. Really, it is amazing. It takes us forever to weed, yet in all of the times we have been there, we have never seen anyone weeding. I assumed they had a legion of nocturnal workers with tweezers that would work all night. On a recent trip, I decided to ascertain the secret.

Dwight took me around the side and showed me something that would change my life – a colinear hoe. After demonstrating its impressive powers, I was determined I needed one. Within the hour, I ordered one from Johnny’s Seeds.

It arrived in two packages – one was the head and the handle arrived the next day. Boy-o-boy can this thing get rid of the weeds.

Before | After

How to use a collinear hoe courtesy of Lee Valley Tools…