Tools to get weeds out

There seems so many weeds in my garden, I'm digging up ok but they are all binding underground and I'm killing myself to stop every few minutes to pull them out. Doing my back in at the same time.
I sort of spin the fork round to see all the bits of weed to pull up.
What tools can I use as there is so many weeds.


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Blisters, backache.....welcome to the hobby that is gardening! It might just be a question of hard graft and elbow grease but I'm sure more experienced members of GC can advise better than me.

 

In my limited experience, after the initial 'grind' it will get easier, especially if you keep on top of it.

 

Is a 4 prong or 3 prong cultivator any good for getting weeds out of soil.


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I tend to use a hoe, but only in the Allotment, somehow my garden is much easier
to manage then the allotment, I have to agree (at home) once you get on top of the
weeding it is much easier to control

I just use a hand fork at home....and a hoe at the allotment.

 

Hi, I'm not one for plugging things but I bought a Japanese Razor Hoe and it's fantastic making short work of the heaviest infection. One tip though, tie a bright ribbon to the handle because they are so easy to misplace
http://www.amazon.co.uk/BurgonandBa...8&qid=1380703939&sr=8-1&keywords=japanese+hoe

 

The Dutch Hoe is a great tool for small stuff. I know you only really hoe off most of the plants leaves but if you do it often they will die from having no greenery.

 

Depends if you're talking perennial weeds or annuals? If you've got bindweed, couch grass, horsetail fern etc, then no amount of digging or hoeing will get rid of them. Give them a good blast of (self-made-up) glyphosate, wait 4 weeks and then blast them again if they re-appear!
Hoeing is brilliant on soil that isn't too claggy or stony, for getting rid of annual weed seedlings. You've got to get them before they grow and set seed, though. If you've got a plot where weed seeds have fallen previously, it'll take anything up to a couple of years to get on top of it. On a big plot, I'd recommend either deep mulching of any bare soil, preferably with a sterile material like wood chippings, or old carpet. Or glyphosate again.....the manufacturers claim that it breaks down on contact with the soil, just killing anything green that it touches, so annual weeds only need one treatment. (Until the next time it rains).

 

The only tool round here that gets rid of weeds is me!

 

And me!

I use a hand fork and trowel for the borders, for the weeds in the lawn I use an old knife or small pointy scissors, for the rest I use my hands.

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I just grub them out of the flower beds with my hands and a small trowel . For the lawn its weed and feed in spring , then just spot weed killer during the season.
I always wonder why they don't cross plants with weeds , they would then grow like billy-o and never die ?

 

Always said that gardeners are not growers, they are plant killers. I reckon today despite the rain I have killed over 1,000 plants and planted three.

 

Hoe - as in Hoe, Hoe, Hoe and Hoe again.

I favour a "swoe" hoe

as it is effective on either the push or the pull stroke, and will reach around the back of plants for an elusive weed, plus it has a point for "digging out" when that is called for, but a Dutch Hoe

would be an alternative. Another alternative, which people speak highly of, but I have never tried, is the oscillating hoe:


What is important is that you hoe often enough - particularly a few days after rain, once the weeds have appeared again but when the surface has dried sufficiently that the soil doesn't stick to the hoe. The old saying "Never let them see a Sunday" applies. If you adopt that strategy then the more persistent and resilient weeds will be weakened by repeatedly having their heads chopped off, before they can recharge their reserves, and in time they will sucumb.

The important thing about these hoes is that they have long handles, so they are kind to your back as there is no stooping involved - just leave the hoed weeds on the surface for the blazing sun to desiccate & kill off.

Or you could use weedkiller - but I prefer not to in my vegetable garden - with the exception of an initial blitz, when the vegetable garden was first created.