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Stirrup Hoe

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A 1950s retro pin-up watercolor of a dark-haired woman with red lipstick, a red polka-dot headscarf, and a knotted white blouse with denim shorts, kneeling barefoot in red sandals on the soil of a vegetable garden while using a stirrup hoe to weed between rows of green and red lettuces and chard, with a pink flowering cherry tree on the left and a white picket fence and leafy hedges in the background under a blue sky.
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John It’s time to start planting gardens. We’re in April, May.

So everybody should go out and get a stirrup hoe.

Adam We had those in Amsterdam in the red light district.

John Aren’t they great?

Adam Yeah, fantastic. What is this?

John It’s also called a, there’s another name for these things. They’re called… What’s the name?

Adam I don’t even know what a stirrup hoe is.

John Look it up, a stirrup hoe is like a hoe. Only instead of being a flat surface thing, it’s got a loop and it allows you to…

Adam Oh, put your foot in it and jam it in.

John No, it is the greatest weeding tool you can imagine.

Adam Oh.

John It just basically pulls the weeds out. It’s also called some other kind of hoe, which is funnier. I now want to get the name, so hang on.

Adam Well, we’re at the edge of our seats here.

John Yeah, these are available at Pastime and all the big hardware stores. Let me find it.

Adam Stirrup hoe… Tally-ho. Hula-ho.

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John It’s also called an action hoe. Which is really more the Amsterdam style…

Adam An action hoe. It’s a show title, is what that is.

John Yeah. And Home Depot has them. The Husky makes a good one. A 54-in-1 wood handle action hoe with grip. These are just terrific products for gardeners. I used to have one years ago. I forgot all about it until Jay and Brennan brought one to the house here.

Adam They have a garden?

John And they’re gardening, yeah, and they got a big garden in the backyard.

And so they’re using this thing and she’s all jacked up about the action hoe. Yeah, well, there’s a lot of punchlines there with the word action hoe, but it’s really technically a stirrup hoe.

Everyone should get one. They’re about 25 bucks max.

Adam Go get your action hoe, everybody.

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