[Digger Tom]

 I havent been to my plot for nearly a week due to work commitment. When i got there this morning the weeds had moved in with avengance. So out came the hoe & I went to work on my sweetcorn bed.
 Unfortunatly I got a bit too hoe'd up & cut down a sweety whildt doing it. I still have 50 odd plants in there but i feel awful about it lol.
 Anyone else ever had hoe-rage before?   




 

[prakash_mib]

I did ravaged couple of winter onions when I was a hoe trainee! but now a days I keep pulling them by hand as the weeds have gone lesser and lesser  . It takes time but I enjoy pulling them.

[madcat]

Took out most of a row of parsnip once  ....  have never been allowed to forget it!   

[PennyS]

I've found I'm not very good with a hoe.   

So I tend to hand weed around plants and hoe bigger areas.  More time consuming but I get more weeds out.

[lucywil]

friendly fire as we like to call it!! one year i planted 30 garlic cloves, i marked the area with some canes so i knew where they were, along comes hubby, moves the canes and proceeds to rotovate the plot!!! i managed to find about 20 of them and replant them.

[Stevens706]

Managed to hoe off my one and only oca plant thought it was a clover plant - DOH

[Yorkie]

Beans.  The hoe is just strangely attracted to the stems 

[DD.]

The one and only outdoor cucumber plant I got to germinate last year.

[herbiegrowsbananas]

Yup, I hoed a couple of my skinny lil leeks, thought they were blades of grass, lol!

Yesterday I hoed 2 metre of my row before I realised my weeds were actually little broccoli seedilngs!

Herbie

[PennyS]

friendly fire as we like to call it!! one year i planted 30 garlic cloves, i marked the area with some canes so i knew where they were, along comes hubby, moves the canes and proceeds to rotovate the plot!!! i managed to find about 20 of them and replant them.

Hey at least your hubby helps you on the plot!
 

[solway cropper]

Try block planting or square foot gardening...you don't need a hoe then 

[deannatrois]

I'm rather glad that as of today.., I haven't actually got a hoe .., yet lol

But I've read the stories out to my OH.., no doubt this is in store for one of us in the future lol (new allotment owner so I'm practically living on this forum when I'm  not digging, picking up stones or planting). Its 10pm and I've only just gotten in, having been raking the surface stones up by streetlight.  Gawd help me when I get a hoe.., I'll probably denude the entire allotment lolol.

[compostqueen]

Me too, I need my specs on to weed properly and even wearing them I stil can't see to the end of the hoe and have scythed no end of veg  .  I now hand weed and only hoe where I can't do any damage to the veg 

I have an Ibis cultivator thing which is brill for weeding up close to onions etc but it does involve a kneeling mat and getting down amongst the veg. I have to get up every 10 minutes and walk around as I'm so achey these days

[m1ckz]

ive been looking for 1 of those cultivatoes  cant find where they sell them   can you remember where u got it,thanks mick

[peapod]

Ive just hoed one of my pumpkins