Comments on: What to Brandish at Your Weeds: Hori-Horis, Soil Knives, and Trowels (With a Video Review of my Top Two!)

By: Jeff

Jeff — Wed, 28 Dec 2011 18:00:43 +0000

As a professional landscaper, my installers have a soil knife as part of their standard kit. Tough as nails and extremely versatile, we absolutely couldn’t live without them. After trying out many different brands, including Fiskars, I can honestly say that there is none better for professional use than this:
http://www.amleo.com/Leonard-Soil-Knife/p/4752/
Reasonably priced and gives 110% every time.

By: Chris

Chris — Tue, 29 Mar 2011 22:04:39 +0000

I have a Nisaku wood handle that is amazing. We have very hard clay in arkansas though and i ordered the polymer handle one too just because of the guard. Cheaper than losing a figure or slicing my hand open i figured and ill probably leave one laying around im sure. Thanks for the links!

FYI, i cant tell a difference between the Nisaku, Joshua Roth or Green To, if i had to guess, they just take different routes at the end of their production line. I like the Nisaku name the best though, sounds the most “Japanese”.

By: Casey

Casey — Tue, 01 Feb 2011 01:34:29 +0000

The Nisakus 800 is available on Amazon as far as I can tell

http://www.amazon.com/Japanese-Landscaping-Digging-Stainless-Durable/dp/B003V2RSAY/ref=sr_1_5?ie=UTF8&qid=1296523152&sr=8-5

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Cobrahead Weeding Tool Review | North Coast Gardening — Mon, 24 May 2010 00:57:50 +0000

[...] soil (like veggie beds) and smallish weeds, and in those circumstances, I actually prefer it to my long-beloved hori-hori! I simply annihilated the weeds in my veggie bed, and having finished in 5 minutes what should have [...]

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Fri, 14 May 2010 15:10:48 +0000

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By: PaulMBurgess

PaulMBurgess — Wed, 12 May 2010 22:11:41 +0000

Orginally I was going to order the Yamakatana direct from company Nisaku they wanted a lot more than worldknives is selling it for.i had looked at worldknives and didn’t see listed as something else.If I had I would have gotten one.So I got the Nisaku Green Top coming in the 11″ version it also comes in 14 ” version same size blade longer handle.The Nisaku Green Top I ordered was on sale twenty in change from its 29 in change price.But I still got killed on the shipping.Can’t wait to get it and give it a work out

By: Genevieve

Genevieve — Mon, 10 May 2010 22:50:46 +0000

Richard, I like the Joshua Roth or the Green Top best.

By: Richard

Richard — Wed, 05 May 2010 20:00:14 +0000

thank you for your garden knife review. it was helpful. i’ve been thinking about purchasing a Hori-Hori, but wasn’t sure about quality. your review was quite helpful. i will have to order a good stainless steel one. is there a specific company you suggest? i have had a Fiskars for about 3 years now (ever since Paul James on Gardening by the Yard reviewed the Hori-Hori on his show) and i love it. only a little rust, but still strong, and in Oklahoma rock and clay, it’s great! use it every weekend.
thanks again…
…rich

By: Hugh

Hugh — Tue, 15 Dec 2009 00:27:03 +0000

For those still looking for the Nisaku 800, you can get it at worldknives.com. Its been mislabeled as a Maruyoshi.

http://www.worldknives.com/products/maruyoshi-horihori-special-gardening-knife-tm800-2223.html

By: Chris @ Santoku Knife

Chris @ Santoku Knife — Sun, 08 Nov 2009 18:28:39 +0000

I worked with alot of soil knives but attest that Fiskars soil knife is the best. .-= Chris @ Santoku Knife´s last blog ..Global Santoku Knife =-.