If you have just a few dandelions, and you can keep your eye on them to remove them before they go to seed, this should make an adequate dandelion puller. There are several different types of weeding tool, some of better suited to certain job than others. Therefore, depending on the terrain you have in your garden, you may even find that you want to have more than one weeding tool in the armoury. Hand-Weeding Knives Using chemicals is an effective approach to weed removal, but even the word ‘chemicals’ starts ringing alarm bells for some people – and perhaps rightly so. We’ll go into more depth about the different types of weeding tools below, but both hand-weeding knives and claw weeders can effectively remove the taproots of bigger weeds like dandelions. Of course, there are also weeding tools that aren’t capable of removing long rooted weeds, so you need to choose carefully depending on what you require. You may find it useful to have a both a short-handled and long-handled weeding tool in your shed as they each have their own strengths and weaknesses. However, if you only want one – go for the tool that best suits the majority of the terrain that you have in your garden.

Fiskars Light Weed Puller, Length: 90 cm, Stainless Steel

You’ll probably be able to get this Fiskars stand up weeder at your local hardware or garden store. Continue pressing down until the bottom of the tool is flush with the ground. If you have hard soil like we do this can take some pressure to get it all the way down. If you have good, light, loose soil this should be a breeze. The bottom of the weeder is now flush with the ground (down all the way it can go)

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Claw weeders are mechanical weeding tools. They have a long handle and a circle of metal teeth on the end. The metal teeth tend to be around 10 cm long and go into the ground around the weed. There is then a mechanism which allows you to close the teeth to ‘grab’ the weed, and pull it out.

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It is good if you can position the claws directly around the center of the dandelion. After you step down and pull the handle towards yourself you should hear the satisfy “pop” of the dandelion root snapping.

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Not only can it end up quite expensive to buy herbicides, they can also have negative effects on the environment. One of the biggest problems is that the chemicals have the potential to remain ‘active’ in the soil for a long time; as a result, they can have adverse effects on bio-organisms, animals, and plant life that weren’t the desired recipients of the product. Clearing weeds and moss from between paving without kneeling down isn’t always possible, but the Wolf-Garten FBM Multi-Change Weeding Brush makes it a lot easier. It’s one of the best weeding tools for clearing smaller weeds from patios, especially if you want to avoid crouching or resting on your knees. Whilst these weeders don’t always work well on smaller weeds, because there’s not enough to grab onto, they’re effective at pulling larger weeds, like dandelions, out of the soil along with their roots.