Japanese Hori Hori Garden Landscaping Digging Tool With Stainless Steel Blade & Sheath

by Joshua Roth

Product Features

• Bonsai collecting tool
• Metal detecting tool
• Multi-purpose garden tool
• Hunting, fishing tool
• Comes with a heavy black vinyl plastic sheath and belt loop

Product Details

• Product Dimensions: 13 x 2.8 x 1.5 inches ; 9.1 ounces
• Shipping Weight: 1 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Shipping: This item is also available for shipping to select countries outside the U.S.
• ASIN: B0007WFG2I
• Item model number: 1516
• Average Customer Review: 4.8 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (56 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #507 in Patio, Lawn & Garden (See Top 100 in Patio, Lawn & Garden)
  • #47 in Patio, Lawn & Garden > Plants & Planting > Gardening Tools

Product Description

The stainless steel blade is very sharp and concave shaped for scooping soil and other materials. Because of its sharpness, it is excellent as a general purpose sporting knife. An indispensable tool for digging in the garden. It cuts and scrapes weed, roots and vegetables. Master gardeners love it. Comes with a heavy black vinyl plastic sheath and belt loop. You need to try it for yourself to appreciate what a great garden tool it is. 6 1/2-inch blade, 11 3/4-inch overall length. Made in Japan Some uses: Weeding, cutting roots, transplanting, removing bonsai plants from pots, sod cutting, dividing perennials, metal detecting, collecting and more. This tool can be considered the Swiss Army Knife for many outdoor uses from gardening, collecting, digging, sawing, chopping, measuring to untold other uses including but not limited to hunting and fishing.

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

65 of 66 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Hori Hori: Best Garden Tool I Have/BEST GARDENER GIFT, May 6, 2005

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C. L. Riskin "Garden Writer" (Seattle, WA USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Japanese Hori Hori Garden Landscaping Digging Tool With Stainless Steel Blade & Sheath (Lawn & Patio)

WEEDS SCREAM AND RUN when they see me coming with the hori hori. (Note that I don't know whether one hori hori brand is any better than another. It's the tool itself that's so great.)

If I could, I'd get one for each of my gardener friends. Sometimes I might need a spade or pruners or shovel, but overall, the hori hori is often the only tool I take outside to plant and weed.

Solid, unbending steel helps pry out deep weeds or dig a hole even in packed clay or gravel. The serrated edge is great for butterflying root-bound plants. And the centimeter markings helps me properly place seedlings and bulbs.

One thing I'd recommend that's been really helpful for me is to paint the handle with fluorescent paint AND tie some long (15-20") fluorescent plastic tape through the hole so that you don't lose it in the dirt; there'll always be some pink or orange ribbon sticking out even if you bury the hori-hori by mistake.

I've buried my hori hori twice. Once I actually called the local metal detector club to help me find it (it was within plain view of my back door for 4 months). The other time, I just ran out and bought a new one.

I've never damaged the blade on one of these. I killed the wood handle by leaving it buried for 10 months in soggy Seattle, but I still use the blade alone.

ANOTHER GARDEN TOOL RECOMMENDATION: Get a Circle Hoe.

104 of 113 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars A Universal Garden Helper, May 24, 2007

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Magdalena Bassett (Sequim, WA USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Japanese Hori Hori Garden Landscaping Digging Tool With Stainless Steel Blade & Sheath (Lawn & Patio)

You open the gift box. Yes! it's just what you wanted! You drop the wrapping paper, leave the wine glass, and the astonished friends, you zoom out to the garden even though it's perfectly dark by now, and you find that dandelion illuminated by the front door's light. You heft the hori hori in your hand. You are a warrior. You are invincible. The enemy will die. This sturdy, hefty tool feels great in the palm of your hand. It easily slides into the soil alongside the offending dandy. A little pressure, and pop! the root, the leaves, the whole rosette of the heinous green Medusa is air born like a cork out of a bottle. You think yes! finally! the war is over, I am The Gardener.

21 of 22 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Not The Same Knife As Pictured, May 8, 2011

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J. Fleming (California, USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Japanese Hori Hori Garden Landscaping Digging Tool With Stainless Steel Blade & Sheath (Lawn & Patio)

Knife seems pretty good. Bought it for setting Cinch Traps. I think the Tang Goes about 1/2 way back into the handle just past the second rivot.

I cannot give 5 or even 4 stars because the item I received is not the item pictured. The pictured knife is a Greep Top stamped and the one I received is Nisaku. The blade is VERY Magnetic too so I don't see how it can be stainless steel. It is made in japan though. it looks like Amazon SKU B003UMVPMM (which also says stainless but I don't see how it can be). Going to contact amazon now since being stainless seems pretty important when it comes to this sort of tool. I could have bought another non stainless version for a lot less money.