In article <mkvr64tgjtus57fb64e2q2lh3pf70fhodo@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>, neutrino1
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says...
> Which would take the least total work, pulling weeds or hoeing? I
> know that if you can pull a weed up roots and all it can not grow
> back. If you just cut it off an inch or two below the ground with a
> hoe it can grow back but hoeing is much easier.
>
> What is you opinion? Thank you in advance for all replies.
> --
> Whenever I hear or think of the song "Great green gobs of greasy
> grimey gopher guts" I imagine my cat saying; "That sounds REALLY,
> REALLY good. I'll have some of that!"
>
I use ours on wide expanses or long stretches. My favourite is the
stirrup hoe because, kept sharp, it just sails beneath the soil. I use a
Japanese gardener's knife for close in work as well as digging and
rooting out weeds.
My wife won a set of short, stainless, hand hoes and she's almost never
without one in the garden.
The way I figure it, If you keep after the weeds with a hoe, you can
disturb the disturbable, encourage dormant seeds for the next hoeing,
starve the perennial weeds and take off swaths of short weeds before
they can set seed.
A hoe in wet clay is a nearly useless tool.
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