# Gardeners - Shillingford Hoe - where art thou? **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [April 10, 2009, 4:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gardeners-shillingford-hoe-where-art-thou/492611 "2009-04-10T04:24:25Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 5\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Bam\_Boo\_Gut](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/8c91f0/32.png) [@Bam\_Boo\_Gut](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bam_Boo_Gut)\ **Post date:** [April 10, 2009, 4:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gardeners-shillingford-hoe-where-art-thou/492611/1 "2009-04-10T04:24:25Z")
Have I got the name of this implement wrong? It’s a gardening hoe, but with a sort of half moon gap so you can hoe towards you and weed by pushing away from you. I google - but nothing comes up which I find extraordinary - a very useful tool - we had at least two when I was a kid - Thames Valley/Cotswolds area of England. It’s lightweight and well … a hoe. Does anyone even remember them - am I from another dimension? [http://s7d2.scene7.com/is/image/SmithHawken/prod400089p\_aux\_default?wid=362&hei=362&$medImg$](http://s7d2.scene7.com/is/image/SmithHawken/prod400089p_aux_default?wid=362&hei=362&$medImg$) This is sort of close, but the flat bit’s not big enough or shovelish enough. [http://www.lazydogtools.co.uk/acatalog/dutch\_hoe\_smaller.jpg](http://www.lazydogtools.co.uk/acatalog/dutch_hoe_smaller.jpg) A bit like this but more elegant. [![](https://scholar.lib.vt.edu/ejournals/JARS/v33n4/ScuffleHoe.jpg) ](https://scholar.lib.vt.edu/ejournals/JARS/v33n4/ScuffleHoe.jpg) Again - not quite - it’s more shovely rather than flat at the bottom. 😕 ---
**Author:** ![J-P\_L](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/j-p_l/32/3156_2.png) [@J-P\_L](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/J-P_L)\ **Post date:** [April 10, 2009, 8:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gardeners-shillingford-hoe-where-art-thou/492611/2 "2009-04-10T20:52:25Z")
I think I know what you are referring to. Not quite as you describe, but the closest I could find, a [Loop Hoe](http://www.leevalley.com/garden/Search.aspx?c=2&action=n) Also from [Sears Canada](http://www.sears.ca/gp/product/B000FRW2KE?searsBrand=core) And from [Amazon](http://www.amazon.com/CULTIVATOR-LOOP-HOE-COMBO-TOOL/dp/B0009PPT2K) ---
**Author:** ![Bam\_Boo\_Gut](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/8c91f0/32.png) [@Bam\_Boo\_Gut](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bam_Boo_Gut)\ **Post date:** [April 11, 2009, 7:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gardeners-shillingford-hoe-where-art-thou/492611/3 "2009-04-11T07:15:19Z")
Thanks - I guess they just don’t make 'em anymore. ---
**Author:** ![Harmonious\_Discord](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/74df32/32.png) [@Harmonious\_Discord](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Harmonious_Discord)\ **Post date:** [April 11, 2009, 11:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gardeners-shillingford-hoe-where-art-thou/492611/4 "2009-04-11T11:33:37Z")
I saw a hoe with a 6 by 10 inch blade in the hardware store. I saw nothing like you described. I can’t figure what this hoe I found would be useful for. I have a few tools I’ll never let somebodies else use, because I have yet to find them for sale. I will always have your request in the back of my mind when I browse. ---
**Author:** ![Bam\_Boo\_Gut](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/8c91f0/32.png) [@Bam\_Boo\_Gut](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bam_Boo_Gut)\ **Post date:** [April 12, 2009, 9:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gardeners-shillingford-hoe-where-art-thou/492611/5 "2009-04-12T09:00:28Z")
Thanks Harmonious! It was always great for weeding. I bought a regular garden hoe yesterday so I’ll struggle along with that and keep my eye out for yard sales - it’s the sort of thing the unknowing would just throw out though I suspect.