Have you got weeds in your garden? Want to know the fastest and most effective way to get rid of them easily? Then watch on to find out which of this arsenal of weeding tools is the best for the weeding job you want to tackle in your garden. There’s something for everyone!
For all the tools featured in this week’s video, check out the links below:
– Cobrahead Weeder: Direct from family-run company: https://www.cobrahead.com/ (Can ship worldwide but may incur import taxes) or buy on Amazon: https://amzn.to/3TWUCzu * (may be more expensive, check local costs)
– Wilkinson Sword Swoe: UK: https://amzn.to/3U2vgjL * USA: https://www.electricalworld.com/en/us/Wilkinson-Sword-Stainless-Steel-Swoe-Style-Hoe/m-3876.aspx
– Corona Reach 7-tine Rake: UK: https://amzn.to/3NeqL1T * USA: https://amzn.to/4eV1chQ *
– Greena EZE Weeder: UK: https://amzn.to/3BydUFd * USA: https://amzn.to/4eTPkwN *
– Walensee Weed Puller: https://amzn.to/3Yiuf8L *
– Corkscrew Weeder: UK: https://amzn.to/4eWXQLh * USA: https://amzn.to/3YecLey *
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42 Comments
I think you meant "ingenious"…
Only issue is all those handles are too short. They are total back killers.
I subscribed, liked your video and commenting for the algorithm when you said "nothing is sponsored, these are just my own views" or something close to it. Thank you for the great video.
I've been using a light brick hammer for a few years now, the sharper end works great for getting to the base of the stem and pulling up from the roots, very similarly to how you are using this cobra head.
Also helps when you get a monster bramble crown that wont pull out – you can go at it like a 19th century miner and smash it to bits.
Just stumbled on your channel while looking for a weed remover. I have one question… Does Ursuline College mean anything to you? You really look like someone I know.
Wisconsin?! Boycott America! 😵💫
Greena Ezekiel weeded sounds good to me
It time to get the weeds out, I’ll be taking your advice on the eze weeder.
pull all u want, them weeds will come back stronger and certain types will come back with more heads…. 😮💨
Thank you. For a while I've been considering ways to remove the strong long roots of blackberry (in thickets of maybe 20sqm!). I have decided the leverage off pivot point mechanisms are the go, like the EZE Weeder but I suspect that one may still be too light. I have not found something of the sort until now. Thank you. I will check the Grandpa's one you mentioned. I'll probably end up making something myself but I'd rather not.
With all of the travelling suckers forming roots everywhere in blackberry I end up pulling up 4 or 5 meters of vines and roots each time. It's hard on the body and hands! 🙂 So, that why I was thinking of clearing the bulk with a scrub cutter and then going back and lifting roots with a tool…
Cheers.
I'm a pro landscaper and my preferred long handle is the stirrup hoe (very similar to the corona
good video have you ever tried a Japanese Hori Hori knife, they are an excellent gardening tool for weeding and general use in the garden?
Is that an entire field of weeds?
So the best hand tool is a slightly worse homi?
I got the same swoe type hoe at Lee Valley here in Canada, London, Ontario to be exact. Berry Hill has the same hoe I believe.
I like the work "hoick". I've never heard that before. Thank you.
the happiest guy on you tube. you're going to hit a million subs this year, pal. well deserved
Thanks Ben great vid again…but those Cobras are RIDICULOUSLY overpriced for what a similar $5 tool can do.
Great videography
I feel like with my very dry/tropical environment I need something quite different. The EZE may be the best one at this stage… sadly not shipping internationally
My lawn gets ambushed by dandelions each year. Grandpa's weeder works so well and once you get into a rhythm, removing all the weeds takes little effort and little time.
The Grandpa weeder is a life saver for me. I’ve had a bunch of nettles and this really saved my hands and back. I’ve had mine for more than 20 years.
I thought that was a sickle
I know this is a fairly old video, but on the question of favourite tools I just wanted to mention a small hand-hoe that I found in my local garden centre six weeks ago. It is the Burgon and Ball short-handled weed slice. I have no connection with the manufacturer or seller. It has made close-in hoeing of my vegetable rows and net tunnels so much easier where space is limited. It is very good for when I lift the skirts of the nets with one hand and reach in with the hoe in the other hand to cut down any weeds around the veggies and I can get in very close. It has a quarter-moon-shaped head with the razor edge on the front, but you can also pull out weeds with the curves on the back. The blade is quite small in width but the handle is a little longer than normal. – PS. They also make a full-sized version.
What about one for block paving?
I absolutely love my Cobrahead. It not only is great for weeding, it is also great for breaking up soil. dig it into the soil and pull it like a farm cultivator. You can do large areas in no time. It helps me weed even very weedy, compacted areas faster than any other tool I've used. It's also much gentler on the soil critters. The tool is also virtually indestructible and the handle is very comfortable in the hand. I would never be without one now that I have used one. I also have the long handled version – and have gifted these out to family and friends!
The smallest "root slayer" is better than any of these weed extractors. And it doesn't matter how moist or dry the soil is.
Very meh on these tools. If you've got a large area to do, like putting in a new bed, then a garden fork is great for it.
If you're working in an established bed, then the soil should have enough organic material in it to allow a simple 3 prong rake to do the job.
If your soil has not been amended with enough organic material to allow for easy weeding then a simple piece of hanger wire that has been bent at a 90 hammered sharp along the edge with a handle on the other end should be enough to keep the weeds down until the growing season ends and you have a chance to work on the soil.
I just feel like the kind of weeding implied by these devices does not apply to the kind of people who would put in the time and money to buy and use them
Nice to see the tools in use. I started using a hori hori about two years ago and will probably never carry anything else again. It does it all. I don’t know why it took 30+ years to try it but better late than never as they say.
I got a relatively nice one with a leather holster and got a stretchy belt for it. Sits next to my gardening hat and both are the first things I don when I go into the garden.
Edit: the ones with a serrated edge are best. If you are right handed you want on the left when holding it and looking at the concave side (dish)
I have found a mattock to be very useful for breaking up soil and getting big roots out. It's heavy-duty but it makes light work of it.
Nah. Get a cordless multi tool with a 70mm blade.
I love the Greener Easy Weeder which I call my ‘Therapy Stick’. I’ve had mine for over 45 years and it works every time. On “one of those days” , I grab it and head out to the lawn and get rid of those tap root weeds. It serves two purposes – it gets rid of weeds, and along with them, some frustrations. Result? – Happy gardener 😊
Re the cobra head…I was using my daughter’s cheapo three prong hand cultivator when the two outside prongs snapped off…a poor welding job. But now I like the tool even better as a single prong. My favorite hand tool however, that I have been using for years and have worn down several, is a linoleum knife, once used for installing flooring?? But it is the best garden tool I have ever had.
But how to you sharpen stainless steel?
I LOVE THE COBRAHEAD
Dandelion leaves are edible. During the depression era in the States, Immigrant Italians ate them, they are supposed to be good for you, the flowers are edible, and the roots can be used as a coffee substitute and have cancer fighting properties.
ddidn't you do another X number of best tools?
First, what's in the garden shed (or, the house but gets carried out to the garden):
a small or "tight spaces" spade;
a large or standard-bladed spade;
a trowel with one-inch markings on the blade;
one of those long-shanked, forked-end weed poppers such as you have, Ben, from well before I discovered YouTube;
a folding pocket knife;
a three-tined hand-cultivator or "claw;"
a pair of by-pass pruners or secateurs;
a pair of anvil pruners or secateurs;
a hori hori knife (a gift);
a pair of heavy-duty loppers;
and in the tool collection in the house, a pruning saw.
Oh, and a lawn-mower (power) is also in the shed.
What actually gets used frequently and regularly: the lawn mower because the garden paths are lawn; the small or "tight spaces" spade; the weed-popper, used mainly to remove dandelions, and broad-leaf plantain from the lawn in the garden and elsewhere on the property; the trowel (sometimes for planting, sometimes for getting larger-rooted weeds out of the garden beds); the by-pass pruners/secateurs.
Much gardening love from Northeast Ohio, USA. 😊💚💚💚💚💚😊
I’m weeding by hand this weekend, and looking for an easier way. I do pretty good but I separate the soils from the roots to reuse and throw the actual weeds in a bucket for compost. I use two buckets, one for the soil from the roots of the weeds and one for the actually weeds. I figured that the soil from the weeds would be valuable
Something with two prong that you can twist easy, and some skill, is 100% the best way in my opinion, for hard to reach stuff I use a trash picker I bought at a yard sale for $1. Stick in the ground at base of weed, twist, and the root twist and rip and the weed comes right up in one piece ( flaw is they get tangled on sometimes and have to pull off by hand) Really though I bet these tools do better than the other depending on soil and your native weeds.
I’m about to make my own cobrahead as soon as I’m done watching this video.
For the first few seconds, I thought that this chap was a Harry Enfield character!