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2016 Holiday Tool Sale

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2016 Holiday Tool Sale

Find the perfect holiday gift for your favorite gardener or farmer. Valley Oak Tool Company has heavy-duty Broadforks, Wheel Hoes, and other garden tool bargains to help bring your 2017 garden or small farm to life.

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How to Remove English Ivy with a Wheel Hoe

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How to Remove English Ivy with a Wheel Hoe

We've received several calls and emails asking if our wheel hoe would be good for removing English Ivy. Turns out that our friend Carla has been working on removing English Ivy in her garden for years.

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Planting Peppers and Tomatoes with Valley Oak Tools

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Planting Peppers and Tomatoes with Valley Oak Tools

In our newest video, gardener David Grau demonstrates how to plant rows of peppers and tomatoes in your garden using Valley Oak Tools Broadforks, Wheel Hoe and attachments like the Furrower, Hiller, and new Bed Rakes.

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How To Plant Potatoes with a Valley Oak Wheel Hoe

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How To Plant Potatoes with a Valley Oak Wheel Hoe

Here in California it's warm enough to start preparing the spring garden. In this video, David Grau demonstrates how to plant potatoes using the Valley Oak Tools Wheel Hoe with a 12" Stirrup Blade attachment and a Furrower attachment.

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Weeding Nutgrass with a Wheel Hoe

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Weeding Nutgrass with a Wheel Hoe

My first real job was with the Valley Oak Tool Company, and it taught me that tough tools make hard work easy. I started out weeding a front lawn composed of Cyperus rotundus (commonly known as nut grass). Nut grass is in fact a sedge, which only resembles a grass.

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