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Fleecewife

  • Joined May 2010
  • South Lanarkshire
    • ScotHebs
Does anyone use a Hori-Hori?
« on: April 27, 2017, 03:29:11 pm »
I just bought a Hori-hori, which is a Japanese gardening tool for Bonsai as well as full sized gardening jobs.  I ordered it from Italy on Tuesday evening, and it arrived this afternoon, Thursday, 24 hours after it was dispatched.  I'm amazed.
The reason I ask if anyone uses one is that it looks a bit alarming, a bit more Banzai! than Bonsai!  It's like a hunting/camping knife, and can be used as a trowel, a weeder, for cutting through small roots, hoiking plants out of pots and suchlike.
S'pose I'd better go and try it out  :tired:
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DavidandCollette

  • Joined Dec 2012
Re: Does anyone use a Hori-Hori?
« Reply #1 on: April 28, 2017, 09:56:09 am »
Picture please!

Jukes Mum

  • Joined Apr 2014
  • North Yorkshire
Re: Does anyone use a Hori-Hori?
« Reply #2 on: April 28, 2017, 12:07:44 pm »
We definitely need to see a picture of this device (before you cut photo-taking fingers off!!!!)
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Fleecewife

  • Joined May 2010
  • South Lanarkshire
    • ScotHebs
Re: Does anyone use a Hori-Hori?
« Reply #3 on: April 28, 2017, 12:26:02 pm »
   
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Funny you should mention chopping off my fingers - a couple of weeks ago I bought a shiny new herb chopper.  I was taking off the blade guard, didn't realise how lethally sharp the thing was and nearly chopped the end off two fingers.  Blood everywhere.  Just about healed up now  :innocent:
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Jukes Mum

  • Joined Apr 2014
  • North Yorkshire
Re: Does anyone use a Hori-Hori?
« Reply #4 on: April 28, 2017, 01:10:01 pm »
Oh heck- should you be trusted with another sharp implement?  :D
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Fleecewife

  • Joined May 2010
  • South Lanarkshire
    • ScotHebs
Re: Does anyone use a Hori-Hori?
« Reply #5 on: April 28, 2017, 11:05:09 pm »
Mr F says not and I haven't dared use it yet.  I'll get him to try it out first  :idea:
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Rhea

  • Joined Mar 2015
  • Wye Valley
Re: Does anyone use a Hori-Hori?
« Reply #6 on: April 29, 2017, 10:39:20 pm »
I love my hori-hori, good for getting potbound plants out of pots and as I've found this week dividing perennials. Do have to be careful with it though.....

Fleecewife

  • Joined May 2010
  • South Lanarkshire
    • ScotHebs
Re: Does anyone use a Hori-Hori?
« Reply #7 on: April 30, 2017, 09:57:08 am »
Thank you Rhea.  I was beginning to think I'd bought something which might not be any use  :garden:   It's about time I divided some perennials  :thumbsup:
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There is NO planet B - what are YOU doing to save our home?

Do something today that your future self will thank you for - plant a tree

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pgkevet

  • Joined Jul 2011
Re: Does anyone use a Hori-Hori?
« Reply #8 on: April 30, 2017, 10:24:27 am »
A nice looking type of weapon.
I did buy a machete for gardening but keeping it razor sharp enough and swinging it just right takes practice: although I saw a chap in jamaica 'mow' 2 acres of rough ground with one over a couple of days.
I also bought a cheap bowie knife but somehow never remember to put the sheath on my belt or take it with me and end up just usng the lock-knife that's always in my pocket - or the spade.
OH also has fleecewife's issues. I bought her a lock-knife and the day she opened the parcel and undid the bade she cut herself. So I have a spare knife.

Steph Hen

  • Joined Jul 2013
  • Angus Scotland.
Re: Does anyone use a Hori-Hori?
« Reply #9 on: April 30, 2017, 11:44:29 am »
I saw a chap in jamaica 'mow' 2 acres of rough ground with one over a couple of days.

Reminds me, years ago was on a mountain road in Venezuela and a tree had blown down accross the road. There were about half a dozen vehicles on each side and each produced a bloke wielding a machete to chop up the tree! It seemed everyone had one!

pgkevet

  • Joined Jul 2011
Re: Does anyone use a Hori-Hori?
« Reply #10 on: April 30, 2017, 05:15:32 pm »
Hence the saying' Every man has a machete in his pants' ;D

Fleecewife

  • Joined May 2010
  • South Lanarkshire
    • ScotHebs
Re: Does anyone use a Hori-Hori?
« Reply #11 on: April 30, 2017, 06:56:57 pm »
My memory of a machete is from Barbados.  There we were puttering along two-up on an ancient, on-it's-last-legs moped, when a very large local chap stepped out in front of us from amongst the sugar cane, machete in hand, and politely asked us for 2 dollars.  Well, we could hardly refuse  :o .  Trying to make a fast getaway after we'd coughed up just couldn't happen on that moped.
"Let's not talk about what we can do, but do what we can"

There is NO planet B - what are YOU doing to save our home?

Do something today that your future self will thank you for - plant a tree

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arobwk

  • Joined Nov 2015
  • Kernow: where 2nd-home owners rule !
Re: Does anyone use a Hori-Hori?
« Reply #12 on: July 29, 2017, 07:52:05 pm »
OK, so I'm a bit late to this thread, but I never go anywhere (garden-wise) without mine!   

Fleecewife

  • Joined May 2010
  • South Lanarkshire
    • ScotHebs
Re: Does anyone use a Hori-Hori?
« Reply #13 on: July 30, 2017, 12:47:49 am »
I find mine particularly useful for chopping up brassica stalks for the compost heap.  My little penknife just isn't up to the job  :roflanim: .  The hori-hori is heavy to cart around all the time though, but mostly it's with me.
"Let's not talk about what we can do, but do what we can"

There is NO planet B - what are YOU doing to save our home?

Do something today that your future self will thank you for - plant a tree

 Love your soil - it's the lifeblood of your land.

 

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