Part III
WEEDING
The best weeding tool is the one you actually use. Multipurpose tools are good choices. You’ll find them handy for work on more pleasurable tasks.
The Japanese garden knife known as a hori hori has a wide blade about 7 inches long that is serrated on one side. The knife reaches deep to take out taprooted plants such as dandelions.
Another good multipurpose hand tool is the Korean-made EZ-Digger. It’s patterned after a traditional Asian gardening tool. It is part hoe, part trowel. Its curved blade slices under mounds of weeds with shallow roots.
An inexpensive choice is a brick mason’s trowel, used by Mary Nell Hubbard of Arlington. It’s sharper than a typical garden trowel and Hubbard, a former Miss Texas, uses it to cut and dig around small plants and then uses the pointy tip to dig weeds. Home Depot and Lowe’s carry them for $4 to $28.
--By Jessie Milligan, McClatchy Newspapers