Hand weeding

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Hand Weeding

No matter how well you are equipped with tools, a certain amount of hand weeding must be done in every garden. Vegetables that require hand weeding in particular are carrots, onions, parsnips, parsley, and all others that are especially delicate as seedlings. What helps matters greatly is the fact that small girls and boys who love to come in the garden to help can weed as quickly and as good as "daddy" himself, thus saving the man's time for the heavier work.

It pays to go over the rows at least once a week and carefully remove every weed, however small, from among the plants in the row. A particularly helpful tool in hand weeding is Cleves Angle Trowel. Even the children soon learn how to work with it, though, as a rule, a short, pointed stick is easier for them to handle.