{"version": "1.0", "type": "rich", "title": "Favorite gardening tools? Neophyte here, with not more than a few potted succulents experience so what more is out there...", "author_name": "kontextmaschine", "author_url": "https://kontextmaschine.com", "provider_name": "kontextmaschine", "provider_url": "https://kontextmaschine.com", "url": "https://kontextmaschine.com/post/182701840433/", "html": "<div class=\"question\"><strong>deae-deactivated20190401</strong> asked: Favorite gardening tools? Neophyte here, with not more than a few potted succulents experience so what more is out there kontext?</div>\n<p>My absolute favorite gardening tool is a hori-hori, a \u201cJapanese weeding knife\u201d. </p><p>The ones I love are straight-bladed, not leaf-like like a Xiphos; slightly concave on one face, heavy steel, wooden handle.</p><p>They basically work like a spade but better for weeding (and honestly vs. a generic spade you wanted a specific tool for transplanting anyway), you can stab the earth and then twist the blade to sever the roots deep enough they\u2019ll stay dead.</p><p>My one issue is they\u2019re so natural-colored (wood handle, blades often come blackened but it wears off to steel grey) it\u2019s easy to lose them on the ground at night, maybe put a stripe of fluorescent paint or tape on them</p>"}