Best manual weeders according to redditors

We found 38 Reddit comments discussing the best manual weeders. We ranked the 20 resulting products by number of redditors who mentioned them. Here are the top 20.

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Top Reddit comments about Manual Weeders:

u/FuzzyHappyBunnies · 5 pointsr/botany

Japanese garden knife: https://smile.amazon.com/Japanese-Garden-Landscaping-Digging-Stainless/dp/B0007WFG2I?sa-no-redirect=1

Great for collecting. I hope your friend wasn't collecting in a park, though. That's usually not allowed!

u/wotan_weevil · 5 pointsr/SWORDS

> There is little choice regarding functional kama out there, that one certainly isn't bad.

If you're happy with ones made as garden tools, there's plenty of choice, including some very nice traditionally-forged ones.

https://www.amazon.com/Japanese-TYOUNSAI-Sickle-Wooden-Handle/dp/B071NRND1Z/

https://www.amazon.com/OJIKA-Thick-Blade-Sickle-Edge/dp/B01FGV5ZHK/

https://www.amazon.com/Trusco-TS-0010-Japanese-Sickle-HTS-0010/dp/B0020FUZHG/

https://www.amazon.com/Trusco-TS-0010-Japanese-Sickle-HTS-0010/dp/B0020FUZHG/

Martial arts stores often sell them too: https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B077RSCSCZ/

u/Rocquestar · 3 pointsr/Whatisthis

Yup, this is right, although, I guess it could be used to pull lots of stuff. Here is an amazon link to a similar product.

u/BackToTheBasic · 3 pointsr/sfwtrees

What state are they located in?

This my favorite gardening tool. It is always on my belt and used for digging, planting, and weeding. This particular one has a quality sheath and full tang blade.

https://www.amazon.com/Oakridge-Garden-Tools-Purpose-6-75-Inch/dp/B00RC7EOU6/ref=sr_1_11?s=lawn-garden&ie=UTF8&qid=1479349898&sr=1-11&keywords=hori+hori+leather

This is a nice pocket guide if they live on the west coast. It's pretty small.

https://www.amazon.com/Pacific-Coast-Tree-Finder-Identifying/dp/0912550279#reader_0912550279

u/GrandmaGos · 3 pointsr/gardening

K. As weeds go, violets aren't that bad once you understand the 2 tricks to managing them. If you don't want to use herbicide, you just dig up each clump, but--the first trick is that you have to get the entire rhizome, even if it's from a very tiny seedling. They grow back from the rhizome if you leave it in the ground. So it all has to come out, every bit. You'll see it sitting there, on top of the ground, that greenish-yellow knobbly thing with the leaves coming out of it.

The second trick is that the seeds don't come from the flowers, they come from a small seedpod hidden under the leaves. You'll see a mature plant surrounded by a circle of tiny seedlings. That's because the seed pod bursts and flings seeds out in a circle.

So the #2 trick is to dig them up in the spring before they can go to seed. Follow the track of the pretty blue flowers all around the yard, and use an old kitchen spoon, the tip of your trowel, or a weed popper (my favorite model is this, or one of the many similar designs. Slide the shaft into the ground alongside the rhizome, then use the curve to rock it back against the lip of the hole the shaft just made, and the whole thing comes right out.

You can do this any time of year, of course, but the blue flowers make it a lot easier to find them.

u/nogami · 2 pointsr/burnaby

I know you didn’t want manual, but we went with this one and it’s awesome easy and effective. Lawns are absolutely clear of them right now.


Garant GDW37 Weeder with Sliding Handle https://www.amazon.ca/dp/B00C7QPNXY/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_api_i_JxWgDb6Y0PPN6

u/collinwho · 2 pointsr/HomeImprovement

I had the same issue with a stump 2 summers ago. What eventually worked for me was switching to a trowel, digging out around individual roots and then cutting roots one at a time with a folding pruning saw.

u/javacafe · 2 pointsr/lawncare

I have been meaning to buy something like this for about a month now. Have not done it yet, because . . . procrastination! :-/

For me, it was a choice between the one you have chosen and this:

https://smile.amazon.com/TACKLIFE-Weeder-39-Inch-Orange-Black/dp/B07MFLP6YJ/

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I am leaning toward the latter. But, hey . . . anything is better than nothing! :-)


Edit: And, oh yeah . . . I am gonna get this one too:
https://smile.amazon.com/Fiskars-Kangaroo-Collapsible-Container-30gal/dp/B00004SD7D

u/Zathura2 · 2 pointsr/herbalism

Get yourself something like this:

https://www.amazon.com/Weeder-Manual-Ergonomic-Garden-Weeding/dp/B07G32YSPJ/ref=sr_1_9?ie=UTF8&qid=1549575887&sr=8-9&keywords=weed+puller

You can obviously use a small spade if you're so inclined, but I found that I more often broke the taproot doing that and got less return for my effort.

Also, while I won't argue with what the other posters have said, harvesting in Spring rather than fall also gets you greens that are less bitter, and fresh flower heads you can use for tea or wine. The greens harvested in Fall are exceptionally bitter and quite unpalatable unless, like me, you've developed a taste for it.

u/doublestitch · 2 pointsr/landscaping

Figure out what kind of regulations you have (especially HOA stuff) and what you want to do with the yard. There's a case to be made for not having a lawn at all, or at least for having only native grasses.

Also, figure out how much time you're willing to spend and what your tolerance is for herbicides.

Our yard was overgrown with weeds when we bought the house; the place had been vacant for several months. I decided on organic gardening and got to work pulling weeds by hand. With a small yard it's feasible.

Kept basic equipment handy by the side door:

  • gloves
  • bucket
  • sun hat
  • work shoes
  • dandelion weeder
  • spray bottle of distilled vinegar

    The routine was simple: commit to ten minutes of weeding a day, every day.

    First priority was any weed that was flowering or going to seed. Here's a guide to identifying common ones. Second priority was anywhere the weeds were close to choking out garden plants (but hadn't completely taken over). Kept at it and the whole yard shaped up.

    A spray of vinegar burns leaves but doesn't kill roots. Use it on clear sunny days and be careful not to let it spray on any of your regular garden plants. Some weeds need to be dug up by the roots. In my yard the particular problems were dandelions and oxalis. A dandelion weeder is a little device like this that helps get things up by the roots. A flathead screwdriver will do in its place.

    You'll see memes floating around that claim dandelions aren't weeds, and that tell you to eat your purslane, etc. Here's the skinny on that. Plenty of edible plants are also weeds. A weed is not a botanical family; it describes a plant's behavior. A plant is a weed if it reseeds itself aggressively, spreads across a yard, and chokes out other plants and takes over. Although several garden weeds are edible I wouldn't take that risk unless I knew for an absolute fact that the previous owner and all of the neighbors did organic gardening (and I know for a fact that is not the case).

    Since I wanted a low hassle yard I reduced the weeds down to zero. For two minutes a day now I stroll the yard and pull up any weed that's newly sprouted. It's mostly spurge this time of year which is definitely not edible. Then I get on to the fun part of gardening: deadheading flowers, fertilizing things, and harvesting salad vegetables.

    Strongly recommend you get int touch with a local gardening club and search the library and the local booksellers for gardening books that are specific to your area. If you don't really like to spend a lot of time gardening they'll point you to the choices that look good while requiring the least amount of work to maintain.
u/gooberfaced · 2 pointsr/lawncare

I hand weed or use a weed torch, then mulch and stay on top of it.
The most useful tool in my entire arsenal is my Ken Ho- I am so dependent on this thing that I bought two spares.

I no longer use glyphosate but if you are OK with it then it won't harm anything if you use it under a tree. That's just not how it works- only foliage contact is damaging.

u/lovellama · 2 pointsr/gardening

I haven't seen a hori hori mentioned. I use mine a lot.

u/paulbesteves · 2 pointsr/Bushcraft

I usually take my hori hori, but that may be for lighter use than what you have in mind.

u/rougecrayon · 2 pointsr/garden_maintenance

If you want to put some back into it try a patio weeder tool.

They will keep coming back but fairly slowly.

u/rationalomega · 2 pointsr/HomeImprovement

Radius Garden 205 Pro Ergonomic... https://www.amazon.com/dp/B000QUYVRW?ref=ppx_pop_mob_ap_share

I got one of these and it is a beast, basically a weeder-shaped shovel. I’m not a big gal or anything and I can pull up dandelions whole that have six inch roots. It is so satisfying.

u/slacker87 · 2 pointsr/landscaping

If you do decide to try and remove some of it i'd pick up something like this

u/PotatoAcid · 1 pointr/chefknives

Sounds like a job for a sickle. Something like this thing, perhaps?

u/BruthaMouzone · 1 pointr/whatisthisthing

Google shows many weeding forks with similarly shallow tines, like this one. Many of these are specifically advertised for pulling dandelions.

E: That said, the other suggestion that this is an ice chipper seems super plausible!

u/BernardoOreilly · 1 pointr/homestead

For the lazy...this is very similar to a bean hook. We used it for weeding soybeans back in the day.

u/SnickersBandit · 1 pointr/lawncare

Dallisgrass. Dig it out. Get a weed popper (https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0197TS3IK/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_awdb_t1_Ue6nDbX7H579N) and a 6 (12 depending on yard and infestation) pack of beer.

You can use glyphosate but obviously it's going to kill anything else it touches.

Mowing frequently helps reduce its ability to reproduce. So mow at least once a week, probably 2 times.

u/kaldoranz · 1 pointr/metaldetecting

I have always had good luck with a Japanese Hori Hori

https://www.amazon.com/Japanese-Garden-Landscaping-Digging-Stainless/dp/B0007WFG2I

Very durable and compact but still can do lots of work.

u/Paul_Swanson · 1 pointr/lawncare
u/taro-topor · 1 pointr/japan

Japanese Hori Hori (ホリホリ) crop knives are cheap, unique and small to pack in your lugage. They are all around farm tool used for harvesting things like cabbages, weeding, planting, etc.
https://www.amazon.com/Nisaku-NJP650-Hori-Hori-Stainless-Weeding/dp/B0007WFG2I

u/beeglowbot · 1 pointr/homeowners

rip them out with a Garden Weasel Step and Twist Hand Weeder, Chemical Free Weeding, 36” Long, Red & Silver https://www.amazon.com/dp/B00B3RRSCW/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_apa_i_hwe4CbNR2JZY8

or a Nisaku NJP650 Hori-Hori Weeding & Digging Knife, Authentic Tomita (Est. 1960) Japanese Stainless Steel, 7.25" Blade, Wood Handle https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0007WFG2I/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_apa_i_Kwe4CbNXVR3WP

do it during spring when they first appear and you'll mostly be fine for the season cause it keeps them in check. It's when you allow then to seed that it gets outta hand.

Crabgrass though.....that's another story.

u/Murderous_Clown · 1 pointr/teenagers

Yeah, pull near the base, but not too hard or you'll break the stem off. Something like this makes it easy to get the whole root out.

Edit: In response to your second post edit, dandelions are definitely weeds. For clover you should ask the guy whether he wants it removed or not.

u/MMOAddict · 1 pointr/gardening

I have this gardening blade I bought on amazon a year or two ago and it's great for finishing off the plants. I point it towards the roots, just below the visible part of the plant, and hit it with a mallet and it severs the roots just below the surface. Unless it's an asparagus weed or a yucca or one of the other many plants that can grow from a root segment, it won't come back. If it is one of those type, persistence is the only way (just keep cutting it to the ground when it pops up, eventually it'll run out of steam.)

This is the blade I bought. There's another one for 14$ but I don't know how good it is.

u/dirtymoney · 1 pointr/Frugal

a digging trowel that will not break in hard earth.

Perfect for gardening AND metal detecting (I use one for metal detecting and broke countless cheap walmart-type trowels before finally getting a Lesche. WOuldnt use anything else now.