Blackberry Hoe – 5 lb Head

When Bob and Rita bought their acreage in Boring, Oregon, it came with a generous endowment of Himalayan blackberry, an invader that is to the Northwest what the Kudzu is to the Southeast. Bob spent days grubbing out blackberry thicket, canes, root runs and seedlings. After removing 20-foot-long, one-inch-thick canes from a holly tree he decided that if you’re really bad and end up in Hell for eternity, that’s probably what the devil makes you do. He used various tools for grubbing out both blackberry and a foot-thick mat of English ivy from the property.