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Transcript: Weeding Tools
Nobody plants a garden to grow weeds, but as any gardener knows, weeds are part of the package when it comes to gardening.Now if you've spent much time at the end of a hoe handle chopping away feverishly trying to remove the weeds from your garden, you know it can be quite a bit of work. However, it need not be. Let me show you a few of the new tools that are available that make the job a lot easier.
The winged hoe is one of the things I like to use. It comes in a short-handled version as well as a long-handled type. You simply slide it back and forth under the ground just under the surface to slice off the weeds.
It's important to catch these weeds when they're very young. When they're young, it's easy to just disturb the soil, disrupt the weed's roots and they die. As they get older, you have to hack them up out of the soil; it becomes a lot of work having to control your weeds.
Other handy tools are the cultivators. There are the little handheld types like this as well as some types that come on a long handle that you can work in and around your beds. They're great for breaking up crusted soil. It disrupts the weeds and saves you a lot of trouble down the line weeding.
Other tools I like to use are the stronger mattock-types of weeder. They have large fingers, usually made of cast iron. They're great for digging in and chomping out larger weeds such as clumping grasses and other weeds.
For things like nut grass that have a tuber down underneath the surface, I like a longer-handled weeder like this. It can be pushed down underneath the nut; you simply lift up the whole plant and shake the dirt loose and you can remove the entire nut and get a good start on your nut grass that way.
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July 6, 2006