Episode 333. My new garden tool the Hori Hori knife. - a podcast by Richard

Join me in today's podcast, where I'll be sharing my first impressions and tests of my new garden tool the Hori Hori knife. I also share the latest from the allotment and modern victory garden.



A full transcript of the podcast is available below.In today's diary section you will hear



How I have finally got my sweet potato into the groundGarlic will be harvested soonHow everything is springing into lifeAnd much more in the podcast.



My new garden tool the Hori Hori knife.Recently I bought myself a new gardening tool. Something I have had my eye on for a while and its the Hori Hori knife from Niwaki. This is a tool that has its roots in Japan.



The Hori Hori knife is also known as a digging or weeding knife and gets its name from the Japanese word Hori meaning to dig. Throughout Japan, it is commonly used as a traditional gardening tool but they are becoming popular over here.Of course a tool is only good if it can do the job its designed to do and in this podcast you can hear how I tested my Hori Hori knife and how it performed. Of course the test of time will be its ultimate test.



If you have a Hori Hori knife, how have you got on with it? I would love to find out.





Episode 333Intro music



Hello and welcome to episode 333 of the veg grower podcast my names Richard and I am on a mission to grow as much of my own food as I can in my allotment and garden.Coming up in just a moment I shall be discussing my new garden tool a hori hori knife. What is it well you’ll find out after the diary section.



Music fadesIts Tuesday the 16th June 2020 today I’m down on the allotment today and its just coming up to midday. Its getting a bit hot which is why I'm packing up and heading home. I did get down to the allotment quite early today or early for me anyway I got here about 8 o clock this morning. First task I tackled was planting out my sweet potatoes, a job I’ve been meaning to do for a while now. But yeah finally got them in the ground.



Nothing difficult about that just dug a hole and popped them out there pot and dropped them in. Really as easy as that. But to plant them I used my hori hori knife which I know I’m going to be talking about later on in this podcast. So I wont go into to much detail about what's going on there.



Now just to the top of the sweet potatoesis where I had some of my brassicas. Now I got 2 areas where I’m goring brassica in. 1 in an entire bed down on the bottom half of my plot and this is at the very top of the main bed. I planted out a few brassicas here a while ago and these were kinda like my spare cabbages and plants. Some of them didn’t survive and some did.



So I had a few more cabbages in pots, which they've also gone into the ground. Again just trying to use up space, as and when it becomes available. I really don’t want to have space where noting grows at the moment.



So I followed that up with a good watering in and I will give them another good watering just before I leave today. The soil as I keep saying is dry on top but gets moist further down. And I will again be covering all these with some grass clippings, probably tomorrow if I get the chance. And that should help conserve more moisture as well.After that I then weeded out my garlic bed



I’m going to be harvesting my garlic tomorrow because all the stems have gone yellow, they've started to flop over and I think its really time. They're not gonna grow anymore.



Unfortunately the leek rust has been the culprit at this time so that's caused a few problems. After that I continued doing a bit more weeding and then I went round all the edges on the lower half of my plot with my strimmer. Just to tidy things up around there.



I always think its amazing just how something as simple as going around with a strimmer, just tidies up many plots and just sort off bring it back into a better looking allotment plot.Well that's what I've been up to today

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