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A garden tool having a cultivating blade portion and a cultivating tine portion provided at the end of a relatively long handle. The blade portion is generally U-shaped and is substantially equal in width to the tine portion. The blade portion is articulated relative to the tine portion.

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A double-action articulated cultivating tool, which comprises: (a) an elongate handle, (b) right and left arms mounted on said handle at one end thereof, each of said arms extending outwardly from said handle and having a distal portion that is generally parallel to a plane containing the axis of sa

A double-action articulated cultivating tool, which comprises: (a) an elongate handle, (b) right and left arms mounted on said handle at one end thereof, each of said arms extending outwardly from said handle and having a distal portion that is generally parallel to a plane containing the axis of said handle, each of said distal portions having a slot therein, (c) a tined portion mounted on said distal portions and extending therefrom in a direction away from a second plane containing said axis and perpendicular to said first-mentioned plane, and (d) a generally rectangular metal blade portion mounted on said distal portions in articulated relationship, the metal forming said blade portion being flexible and springy, said blade portion extending away from said second-mentioned plane in a direction generally opposite to the direction of extension of said tined portion, said blade portion having sides that flex and that connect to bent-over end portions adapted to be inserted inwardly through said slots after said sides have flexed apart, said end portions being maintained in inserted condition in said slots due to inward flexing of said sides, the sizes of said end portions relative to the sizes of said slots being such that said blade portion may pivot through a small angle in directions generally parallel to said first-mentioned plane, said blade portion having substantially the same dimension as said tined portion in a direction parallel to said second-mentioned plane.