Traditional Japanese Hoe by De Pypere

This traditional Japanese hoe from De Pypere is a high-quality 'Japanese weeder', a hand tool with impressive versatility and efficiency.  It has a short ergonomic ash handle, and a razor-shaped, well-sharpened head, capable of cutting, weeding, scraping, and raking everywhere with precise movements. This particularly robust head is hand-forged from carbon steel, with a boron steel finish. This lightweight, easy-to-handle, high-performing, and robust tool will last for many years.

Dimensions: head  11 x 3cm (1in) -·Handle length  14cm (6in)

The Japanese hoe is still a little-known tool among Western gardeners. A hybrid between a sickle and a small hoe, this hand tool is truly versatile. This model, with its sickle-shaped blade positioned to the left, is suitable for right-handed users, who will use it with a motion from the outside to the inside. A combination of sickle, pickaxe, and hoe, the Japanese weeder can manoeuvre around plants, in flower beds, in the vegetable garden, or in flower pots. Its pointed blade will crumble and loosen the top layer of soil after digging, cutting and uprooting the most resistant unwanted plants, even digging shallow planting holes and furrows with little effort. It can also be used to easily weed under mulch. Like the hoe, the Japanese hoe is used to loosen and break up the superficial layer of soil, thus aerating the soil around cultivated plants in the vegetable or ornamental garden. It also helps prevent the formation of a compacted layer that occurs after watering or rain in clayey or loamy soils. This hard and compact layer, which is very difficult to re-humidify and suffocating for plants, also promotes the rise of water to the surface and its evaporation. Working the soil on the surface after watering limits water evaporation. The Japanese hoe is suitable for loose and light soils as well as heavy and hard soils that are difficult to work with. It consists of a short handle made of natural ash, known for its hardness, with a socket where the forged head made of tempered steel that is resistant to shocks, torsion, and corrosion is securely attached. The handle is compostable, and the metal head is recyclable.

The traditional De Pypere range includes high-quality tools, all made of forged steel and equipped with ash handles. The tempered boron steel coating on the blades is very hard and resistant, making it a valuable material for tools that can be heavily used in the garden.

This tool is under warranty. The warranty does not apply to handles or grips, only to the metal parts excluding consumables (screws, springs, etc.) and within the scope of normal use.