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Tools for weeding

KmehKmeh Posts: 173
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Hello

Need to tackle an out of control rental property lawn and also wanting to invest in some decent tools.

What weeding tools would you not be without?

Thank you!


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  • Butterfly66Butterfly66 Posts: 970
    Unless you want an immaculate lawn, simply mowing regularly will soon sort out a weedy lawn. If you prefer to get rid of all the weeds permanently, roots and all, it depends what sort of weeds you have, what will work best

    I don’t bother with a lots of different tools, I have one trusty trowel which I think is called a bulb or sometimes transplanter trowel. It’s quite long and has a proper point so gets used for everything.

    You can get a trowel/tool designed for getting out long tap roots such as on dandelions.
     If you have a garden and a library, you have everything you need.”—Marcus Tullius Cicero
    East facing, top of a hill clay-loam, cultivated for centuries (7 years by me). Birmingham
  • B3B3 Posts: 27,505
    I also use a wallpaper/ paint scraper as a small hoe to get between plants or tidy grass edges - my favourite tool
    In London. Keen but lazy.
  • TopbirdTopbird Posts: 8,355
    My soil is too heavy to use a trowel for anything other than a few specific jobs.

    I use a small handfork all the time for hand weeding and a small border fork for tackling bigger jobs.
    Heaven is ... sitting in the garden with a G&T and a cat while watching the sun go down
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