That's a long-handled 3-tined cultivator.Gray wrote:My favortite tool I inherited from my granfather in law. Its got so many uses, I be lost without it - but I'm always stuck for they call it ! Best described as a three 'fingered' fork that form a craw with an extra long handle - suggestions in a hat please :-)
My gardening style means I tend to use a lot of hand tools rather long tools - my favourite would have to be the Ibis Cultivator. That's not the best photo of it, but it's a really handy little thing, good for all kinds of uses. It's the one tool I pretty much always have within arm's reach (it hangs in the hammer loop of my workbelt). It can be easy to be a little cynical about some of the more "fashionable", "ethnic" tools you see in the catalogues, but this one really does the job.
As a no-digger, I don't have too much use for azadas and forks.
The long tools that do get used a lot are my scythe, my rake, and my long-handled onion hoe. Most other stuff I do up close and personal.