"I got the idea last year while weeding my garden. I was spending too much time going up and down each side of new plant seedlings when the idea hit me for a hoe that would go over the row," says Joe Maringer, inventor and manufacturer of the Moustache Garden Hoe.
It gets it's name from the obvious reason that it's
shaped like a moustache. The curled ends go on either side of the row. The arch
in the hoe will clear seedlings 6 to 7 in. tall.
Once the crop is up and going, you can install a bar
across the middle of the hoe and used it for conventional weeding between the
row.
"It slices through weeds without clogging up. We
had the first units cast at a local Amish blacksmith shop and workers in the
shop started using the hoes right away. They really caught on fast," says
Maringer, who started selling the hoes this spring.