21. He jokes that life has improved so much that poor farmers use mobile phones while hoeing their fields. 22. He died in 1738, when he suffered a stroke while was planting and hoeing his tulip bed. 23. :: : An American robin approached within 3 feet as I was hoeing and rototilling a garden. 24. "How can we pay ? " asked Miriam Ganduglia, who was hoeing a vegetable garden. 25. A tiny but productive plot means no more getting tired before you finish hoeing to the end of a row. 26. She worked at odd jobs, including hoeing sugar beets, but knew she was cut out only for writing. 27. Many gardeners say that time spent in the sun digging, hoeing and watering results in a night of restful sleep. 28. After two weeks, most of the weeds will have sprouted and you can kill them organically with a good hoeing . 29. "The miners kept busy mainly hoeing their vegetable plots, " said Sinis, a former Shell Oil executive. 30. A rural people, the Mexican Pimas tend their fields without machinery, hoeing rows by hand or with a plow and ox.