{"id":4423,"date":"2010-06-01T09:13:19","date_gmt":"2010-06-01T03:17:46","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2013-01-11T16:25:06","modified_gmt":"2013-01-11T23:25:06","slug":"rogue-hoes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tkdev.kk.org\/cooltools\/rogue-hoes\/","title":{"rendered":"Rogue Hoes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>After trying several types of gardening on my homestead in the rainy Pacific Northwest (where my favored &#8220;no-till&#8221; sheetmulching seems to fail miserably), I&#8217;ve settled on the lightly-cultivated approach of Steve Solomon (<a href=\"http:\/\/soilandhealth.org\/\">soilandhealth.org<\/a>).  The old-fashioned and well-sharpened garden hoe is the workhorse of this technique.<\/p>\n<p>After going to every garden center and hardware store around, and going through a few cheaper units with bad handles and unsharpenable blades, I decided to spend what it takes to get a good one. Imagine my pleasant surprise when the finest hoes I could find online were the same price OR CHEAPER than the flimsy, cheaply made Mexican and Chinese imported units.<\/p>\n<p>Rogue Hoes are all about $25 and come in a myriad of sizes and blade shapes. I use the 65g for general soil-mixing-and-moving and weed slicing and the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.roguehoe.com\/scufflehoes\/scufflehoes.html\">60S &#8220;stealth bomber&#8221;<\/a> to remove weeds from tight spots. The blade takes a very keen edge with a little filing and the handles should last a very long time with occasional oiling and the most basic of care: keep them out of the rain and hang them with the blade and handle off the ground.<\/p>\n<div class='ctx-module-container ctx_default_placement ctx-clearfix'><\/div><span class=\"ctx-article-root\"><!-- --><\/span>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Affordable quality tillers<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false},"categories":[38],"tags":[],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tkdev.kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4423"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tkdev.kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tkdev.kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tkdev.kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tkdev.kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4423"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tkdev.kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4423\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8677,"href":"https:\/\/tkdev.kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4423\/revisions\/8677"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tkdev.kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4423"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tkdev.kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4423"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tkdev.kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4423"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}