Japanese Gardening Tools: The Secret to Growing Sweet Potatoes

In this video, we’re looking at some of the best garden tools from around the world: Traditional American gardening tools, Japanese gardening tools and Korean gardening tools.

Gardening can be a challenging task, but it’s manageable with the right tools. Over many generations different civilizations have developed very different tools to achieve one goal: transplant seedlings.

In this video we take a close look at common gardening tools from around the world. We start with the traditional American trowel, the Korean hand hoe, Korean homi, Japanese sickle, Japanese hori-hori and Japanese hand mattock.

To make the most use out of the tools it is crucial to sharpen them. We show you how to best sharpen each tool so that gardening becomes easy and fun.

So whether you’re a beginner or an experienced gardener, you’ll want to check out this video to improve your gardening skills.

00:00 – Start
00:21 – Intro
01:10 – American Garden Trowel
03:51 – Korean Ho Mi
05:40 – Japanese Hori hori
07:47 – Japanese Sickle
10:19 – Japanese Hoe
12:27 – Japanese Hand Mattock
14:00 – Sweet Potato Transplants
17:25 – Water it in
19:11 – Summary