Hoe (tool)

A farmer uses a hoe to weed a vegetable crop.

A hoe is a tool in farming and gardening. It has a blade, usually metal, attached to a long handle, usually wood. There are many types of blade and several uses, probably the most common of which is weeding. Other uses include shaping the soil and harvesting root crops such as potatoes. Along with the spade and fork, the hoe is considered a basic, essential hand farming implement.

Hoe (tool) Media

Cultivating tool, a pull or draw hoe
Eye hoe heads, some with sow-tooth (German: Sauzahn), Centro Etnográfico de Soutelo de Montes, Pontevedra, Spain
Cultivating tool, a push or thrust hoe
X Fire Tree Planting Restoration Project on the Tusayan Ranger District. April 12, 2012. Photo taken by Dyan Bone. DSC_0050a. Please give credit to: U.S. Forest Service, Southwestern Region, Kaibab National Forest.
Fork-hoe depiction in Der Rebmann (the vine-dresser). Jost Amman, Das Ständebuch, 1568
'Mr' hand-plough, Protodynastic Period of Egypt (from the Scorpion Macehead)
Ancient Egyptian hoe, Musée des beaux-arts de Rennes, France. D.23.2.42.
Ancient Greek iron hoe (Kerameikos Archaeological Museum)
A 2000-year-old iron Roman hoe blade

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