As I was working on trimming the grass along our sidewalk this last weekend one or our neighbors came over and gave me a tip I thought I would pass along. I was using our tiller with a sod trimming blade on it to remove the extra growth of grass that insists on narrowing our sidewalk. Once you have trimmed the sod along the edge of the sidewalk you are left with that small strip of sod. In a perfect world that strip of sod pulls away without any extra work at all but since this has never really been a perfect world (at least from my experience) that little strip needs some extra persuasion. I started out using a shovel to do this work but then my neighbor suggested using a stirrup hoe, just run the edge of the hoe along the cut line and the base of the hoe along the sidewalk. This will put the strip of grass in the middle of the hoe. After doing the remaining 90% of the job in the time it took to do the first 10% I decided this was the way to go. For those of you who don’t know what a stirrup hoe is I have included a picture. Good Luck.