Have you soaked the soil the night before weeding?
Are you using gardening gloves to protect your hands?
Are you using a kneeling pad when weeding?
Are you using one hand to poke the hand weeder in the soil near the root of the weed and the other to push the hand weeder to handle down?
Are you pulling the weeds out with hand weeder using both hands?
Are you checking the hole for leftover weed roots?
Are you disposing of the weeds after pulling them out?
Are you cleaning your weeding tool after use and storing it somewhere out of reach of small children?
You should soak the soil the night before weeding to soften it. Softer soil will make the weeding job easier, and the weeds will pull out of the soil without breaking the top of the weed from the root below the soil.
Put on gardening gloves to protect your hands. They will also protect your fingernails and hands from drying out or getting stained.
Use a kneeling pad or cushioned garden knee pads to make the weeding easier on your knees if you kneel to weed, or use a small garden stool that is close to the ground.
Use one hand to poke the forked prong of the hand weeder into the soil near the root of the weed to loosen the soil around the root of the weed. Go far enough down to get around as much of the root as possible. Use your other hand to hold the top of the weed and push the hand weeder to handle down like a lever toward the soil to pull the root of the weed up.
Pull the weed up with one hand at the same time you are pushing the handle of the weeder down toward the ground like a lever with the other.
Check in the hole for any more pieces of leftover root and dig them out with the weeder if you find any.
Always dispose of the pulled weeds somewhere out of your garden to make sure they are out for good.
Good work! You are using your hand weeder tool correctly.
You should clean your hand weeder after use to protect it from rust and store it somewhere out of the reach of small children because most weeders have sharp edges that can hurt them.
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Hi! I’m Sreten Filipović. I graduated from the Faculty of Agriculture at the University of Belgrade, with a master's degree in Environmental Protection in Agricultural Systems. I’ve worked as a researcher at Finland's Natural Resources Institute (LUKE) on a project aimed at adapting south-western Finland to drought episodes. I founded a consulting agency in the field of environment and agriculture to help farmers who want to implement the principles of sustainability on their farms. I’m also a founding member of the nonprofit organization Ecogenesis from Belgrade whose main goal is non-formal education on the environment and ecology. In my spare time, I like to write blog posts about sustainability, the environment, animal farming, horticulture, and plant protection. I’ve also published several science-fiction short stories.
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