tool
Hand cultivator
Garden tool consisting of a usually 130-150 cm long (1) wooden handle with
three to five - but always in an odd number - curved iron teeth for opening
and turning the soil. The working part (approx. 10 to 25 cm wide) can be
fixed or exchangeable. In the latter case, you can choose the number of
teeth. The tips of the teeth are oval or triangular flattened. In contrast
to the garden hoe, with the hand cultivator the solid underlying soil, with
the sharp flat points and by its pulling movement, is slightly raised and
opened up. The middle tines of a hand cultivator are slightly shorter so
that the soil clod can be crumbled. To be distinguished from the grubber,
which is narrower and mainly serves to break the ground superficially. See
also the manual towed hand cultivator and hand wheel hoe. [MOT]