I just got back from Ace where I bought a hula hoe for weeding. I was already upset that it would be of chinese manufacture, but what really ticked me off was that both edges were dull to the point that I could scrim a fish on the edge!!!! I checked every other implement in the section-they were all unfit to use as they came of the rack. It didn't seem to be this way when I was a kid. But truthfully, I don't remember how the tools were when my parents got them or if Pop sharpened them before putting them into service.

I have had to sharpen all my hand garden tools before putting them into service! I guess that's one more sign that I need to be protected from myself by some USDA idiot bureaucrat who never set foot in a garden but writes regulations covering tools: garden, hand, for use of, edges.