Every summer resident and gardener it is known what it is, because everyone has to fight with them. In this article, we will get acquainted with the most popular methods, as well as removal tools.
How to deal with weeds in the country: a description of popular methods
For first way- the so-called "traditional" - you will need special garden tools to remove weeds.
It is necessary to take a chopper and cut the roots of the weeds. Also in this way you should carry out loosening, which will positively affect the development of cultural ones. 
Important in this procedure is manual cleaning roots and shoots of unwanted vegetation.
The more roots you remove after weeding, the less weeds will appear in the future. Large weeds should be removed by hand, although it is difficult, but very effective.
Second way characterized by soil cover (), for which both organic and inorganic materials are suitable. This method helps to stop the development of weeds due to the lack of sunlight necessary for their growth. 
If you use straw or other organic material, the layer must be at least 6 cm, otherwise the weeds can easily germinate. Mulching also helps retain moisture.
Third way consists in the use of chemicals, which leads to the death of the weeds along with the root. For this, they are used, which are selective and continuous.
Did you know? The death of the weed occurs in a week or two.
A herbicide of continuous action destroys not only weeds, but also a cultivated plant. 
selective action kills only specific species (which ones - the manufacturer indicates on the package), but does not affect the culture.
Garden weeding tool
Since weeding is the most popular way to control weeds, it's worth learning more about the tools needed to remove weeds.
Suitable for removing plants with a developed root system. 
If the teeth of the garden fork are bent at an angle of less than 45 °, then it can be used to loosen the soil, while pulling out weeds that are weakly fixed in the ground.
Important! The handle of any inventory should sit comfortably in your hand - this will help to avoid pain in the hand.
Allows you to extract from the ground long roots that go far into the depths. 
There are many modifications: some resemble a fork with two flat and wide teeth, others have a sharp V-shaped blade, and some are a huge corkscrew.
Important! There are cases when a small part of the root remains in the soil.
Crevice cleaner- This is a tool that has a blade shaped like the letter "G". 
It is used to remove weeds between the tiles that lay out the paths, and in other similar places.
Did you know? The function of effective cleaning from weeds can be performed by an ordinary knife.
Choppers for removal
Choppers for weeding the garden are three types: Dutch type, straight, manual.
Dutch choppers have a blade with a very slight slope, which is attached to a long handle.
The tool dissects the roots of weeds by weeding the most upper layers soil.
For straight choppers the blade is attached to the handle of medium length at a right angle. This allows you to remove weeds with chopping movements. 
Hand choppers- These are miniature copies of straight lines, with which still young plants are processed. 
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6257 05/01/2019 5 min.Receipt good harvest or proper type of backyard lawn precedes whole line work on the processing of the upper layer of the soil. Digging, harrowing, loosening, breaking up clods of earth, removing weeds and their roots, digging up root crops - all this is necessary, but physically hard work.
Requiring plus everything significant time costs.
Designed to make work easier and increase productivity different kinds manual cultivators for tillage in the country - gasoline, electric, manual, light and heavy.
The advantages of their use are enormous - mobility, the ability to process hard-to-reach areas for heavy equipment, and an increase in the speed of work by several times. The quality of land cultivation increases many times over, compared with the use of hand tools - shovels or glanders.
What should be?
For hand cultivators for summer cottages, the price may vary from 10 to 40 thousand rubles(gasoline cultivators) and reach up to 150 thousand rubles for walk-behind tractors.
Manual cultivator for giving electric- lighter and easier to maintain its gasoline counterpart. The main purpose is to loosen the earth. Advantages:
- light weight;
- ease of management;
- low noise level;
- lack of exhaust gases;
It is clearly seen in the photo:
When choosing, do not chase powerful models - anyway, a full-fledged "field worker" will not come out of it. Pay attention to light, inexpensive models, such as Loplosh, Mantis, which a woman or an elderly person can easily handle.
The disadvantages include attachment to the source of electricity. Poorly suited for processing areas with uncut grass. Due to relatively low power, is able to loosen only soft, sandy soil or cultivated black soil.
A garden hand rotary cultivator (or star cultivator) is used to loosen the soil and clods after plowing, mix the soil with fertilizer and remove weeds. Principle of operation: “shoulders” are attached to the working shaft at a right angle, at the end of which there is a cutting edge.
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There are several such elements along the entire circumference, and in the lateral projection they resemble an asterisk. Hence the name. When powered by petrol or electric, the sprockets rotate quickly (regardless of speed) loosening the ground.
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Manual cultivator for giving stellar without mechanical drive, has a pair of small support wheels. Also included is a knife, which (if turned to the ground) cuts the grass and roots of weeds when moving.
Immediately after purchase, it is better to replace the handle with a longer one - it will be much easier to work.
Making a cultivator with your own hands
The simplest manual cultivator for giving with your own hands can be make in just a few hours from seemingly outdated and useless parts. For work you will need:
- Pieces of tubes or a metal corner.
- The front wheel (without rubber) is from a moped, and preferably from a motorcycle.
- A strip of steel 50 cm long and 2 mm thick. A worn-out knife from an electric planer is ideal.
- Cargo - you can use a metal or cast iron blank, part of a reinforced concrete column or transformer iron.
It is easier to assemble the frame using electric welding - this way it will be tougher and more reliable. Grind a strip of steel along the long side at an angle of 40-50 degrees. We fix the wheel and install the load - the cultivator is ready.
Bicycle based
Such a structure can be assembled based on a bicycle. In this case, the load is not required, but you will have to apply a little more effort during the passage. To make the knife easier to go into the ground, you need to weld it at a slight angle.
Homemade hedgehog cultivator
A p-shaped frame is bent from metal 3-4 mm thick. 4 bushings 40 mm long are being prepared. And the most time-consuming part - for each sleeve, around the circumference, 5-7 pieces of pointed reinforcement about 10 cm long are welded. The handle - the longer, the easier it will be to work.
Such a mechanism is perfect for breaking up clods of earth, after the passage of a mini-tractor or motor plow. A knife is fixed on top of the frame. The depth of its entry into the ground can be adjusted by a set of holes. Turning the cultivator over with the knife to the ground, we get another great tool for weed control.
The only problem is in the presence of climbing weeds (for example, bindweed), their stems are wound on the "hedgehogs", and they have to be removed periodically. In any case, it turns out much faster than glanders.
On video homemade cultivator"Hedgehog".
When choosing a cultivator, in addition to the specifics of the site itself, do not forget to consider who will work with it most of the time. If it's a woman or teenager, the best choice there will be an electric model. For young man, it will be useful to warm up with a manual cultivator without a drive, such as, for example, a cultivator swift.
Owners of large plots of land should think about purchasing a motor cultivator or even a motor block.
Private sectors and gardens need to be treated for weeds twice a year and dug up for a good harvest. Many use ordinary bayonet shovels every year for such labor-intensive work and are not even aware of the innovative hand tools by type of cultivator Tornado. Now it will take less time and effort.
What is this device, how does the cultivator work
In short, the Tornado cultivator is a root remover or aerating agent, an environmentally friendly multi-tool with several functions.
Manual cultivator Tornado according to the type of construction consists of a metal rod. On one side of the rod, a handle is installed, similar to a bicycle steering wheel. The other end is equipped with teeth. However, those same teeth are in the form of a spiral, turned counterclockwise.
An important feature of the design of such a tool is the adjustment of the rod for growth. Because of this, you can use the tool to a capable person with any height, and even a child above 1 meter.
Many will ask how such a tool works correctly? It's simple - you need to set it perpendicular to the ground plane and turn until the teeth are completely immersed in the post.
A lot has been filmed about the work of the tornado cultivator good video. For example, here it is:
Even a fragile girl easily processes ridges of several tens of meters with just such a cultivator. Interestingly, the load distribution is well thought out. The user does not tear his back, but works with all parts of the body. Arms, back, shoulders, legs and torso participate. If there is a load distribution, then it is almost impossible to get exhausted when working with a tool.
Experts advise using just such a tool on abandoned or neglected areas, because the removal of weeds and wild plants is the main function of the cultivator. Compared to a hoe, this cultivator will save both time and effort. There is no need for an uncomfortable body position when working, as well as periodic bends and squats.
How in practice they work with a manual cultivator and a tornado root remover is shown in the video:
If you test the cultivator or root remover together with, it turns out that the shovel cultivates the ground 4 times slower. Moreover, it doesn’t matter who exactly used the tools, because when comparing, you need to perform chaotic movements at a certain pace.
Proper tillage is done by loosening, not by moving the bed. The natural layer is disturbed and fine root system with aggressive digging with a conventional bayonet shovel. Correct use cultivator-root remover preserves the right environment for future plants.
Advantages declared by the manufacturer:
- Removing weeds is a pleasantly simple affair. It is only necessary to immerse the working pins of the cultivator around the weed.
- It is convenient to get rid of unwanted vegetation on the ridges. It is impossible to spoil the growing crop with such a tool.
- You can perform the same actions as with a pitchfork, distributing weeds in compost pits or heaps.
- It is easy to assemble, convenient to store and easy to transport from site to site.
- Working rods or teeth are made of hardened steel, resistant to corrosion.
About "Tornado Mini"
Outwardly similar to a cane, the light hand cultivator Tornado mini is an excellent assistant in removing weeds and shoots. It is necessary to ennoble the garden and summer cottage area constantly, but the majority cannot physically cope with such monotonous work. Undermining small sprouts with a shovel or glanders is much more labor-intensive than “picking” with a simple movement hands of unnecessary vegetation.
The Tornado mini cultivator is a lightweight version of the classic model. Differences and capabilities of this tool, indicated by the manufacturer:
- Loosening without turning the earthen layer. It can be used near shrubs, next to flower beds and in other hard-to-reach places.
- Simple and easy removal of small weeds.
- Creation of holes for planting onions, flowers, seedlings of any size in a short time.
- Processing of the topsoil next to the root system of shrubs and trees.
- Work with one hand.
If there are doubts about the choice of a cultivator and the price for it, then it is better to purchase the most budget model— cultivator-root remover Tornado.
What in practice
Model cultivator "Tornado" on the market garden tools for more than a year, has earned wide attention and approval from people with a broken spine. Practicing users claim that the most basic load is only on the hands.
Distrustful summer residents, having seen this innovation in the construction market, are in a hurry to deal, first of all, with comparison. And for this, a classic "Tornado" and a cheap bayonet shovel are bought.
On the site, several squares are measured to test well-being and the promised low loads.
As a result, a shovel with a handle is used exclusively when creating holes for a fence or compost. The soil is cultivated with a cultivator, holes for seedlings are formed, all the abandoned and forgotten corners of the site are weeded with ease and desire.
According to adequate and grateful summer residents, "Tornado" can:
- to process to dig up the earth in a vertical position faster than any shovel;
- loosen the ridges with strawberries, flowers, perennials;
- assist in transplanting seedlings, similarly pulling out weeds from any soil;
- create rows of neat holes for potatoes.
But what the cultivator cannot:
- make the right holes for the pillars;
- cut and take out the roots of cherries, shadberry and lilacs;
When working with full force, do not press on the tool. It is better to make progressive movements, the cultivator will dig into the ground itself thanks to the design of the rods. Moreover, the earth layer will retain the correct structure.
Manual cultivator for giving Tornado
In addition to the usual cultivator, a model of a potato digger for summer residents was created:
The photo shows that the design includes a fixing pin, 3 working teeth, a bicycle handle and a base with a fixed length.
The potato digger cultivator will facilitate and speed up the work when harvesting potatoes. This patented tool will allow you to pass row after row of crops in a matter of seconds.
What is the principle of work?
The cultivator is set at an angle of 90 degrees to the ground, slightly fixing with the foot. Parallel to the potato row, turn around the axis. It turns out that the rounded rods or teeth of the cultivator are taken out of autumn soil all the tubers from the nest in one movement.
After the annual, hard and tedious potato harvest, this tool will diversify rural and country work, save energy, time and mood.
Garden tool TORNADO in action - video
Germinating from seeds and perennial weeds make life difficult for all summer residents. How to get rid of dandelions on the site, forever facilitating the work on the beds and the development of cultivated plants?
There are several ways to deal with intruders, including:
- folk remedies;
- chemicals that inhibit or completely stop the growth of the weed;
- regular digging and weeding of the garden and flower beds;
- use of special root removers for dandelions.
Growing on roadsides, on city lawns and wastelands, that is, everywhere, dandelion is a rhizomatous perennial with a powerful underground part and a basal rosette of green lanceolate leaves, which are among the first to appear from under the snow and disappear only with the advent of winter.
The danger of dandelion as a weed lies in its easy spreading and rapid capture of the territory.
The first flowering occurs in mid-spring, then the plant can bloom up to 2-3 times, scattering hundreds of seeds around the area on light flying umbrellas. Dandelions are very tenacious, they sprout well, take root in the most unfavorable conditions. But it is not easy to remove the plant because of its branched strong rhizome.
How to deal with dandelions on garden plot, in garden beds and? The choice of method depends on where the weeds settled, and how many of them there are.
Fighting dandelions in the garden
For weeds, there is no difference between a wasteland and a bed planted with tomatoes, squash or garden strawberries. The best time to assess the situation - early spring, when the foliage of dandelions is only gaining strength, and the buds have not yet opened.
If there are few dandelions, you can get by with a lot simple ways. Compliance with agricultural technology is one of the surest ways to deal with dandelions:
- The beds that are to be sown or planted with cultivated plants must be dug deep, along the way choosing weeds down to small fragments of rhizomes.
- The emerging shoots are weeded out, the soil is regularly loosened so that the seeds that fall into the ground cannot hatch and take root.
Pure land in garden beds runs the risk of being covered with a carpet of dandelions again, if you ignore the aisles and garden paths. Due to the density of the soil, it is difficult to weed weeds on them, but it is quite possible to loosen them with a hoe, chopper, or it is quite possible. If you treat risk areas without waiting for flowering, dandelions do not multiply, and existing plants quickly weaken.
In autumn, the beds are dug up again. Do the same with trunk circles under fruit trees and shrubs, perennial ornamental crops, as well as flower beds, on which annuals were fragrant in summer.
How to deal with dandelions on the lawn with folk remedies
Perennial turf on a lawn or in a garden cannot be dug up; manual weeding is also ineffective here.
An attempt to manually remove a weed will inevitably lead to a break in the rhizome, which will soon begin to recover, or damage to cultivated plants in the neighborhood.
How to permanently get rid of dandelions on the site if the shovel and chopper are out of work? There are several simple folk ways. To remove dandelions use:
- table salt;
- boiling water;
- vinegar essence.
Aggressive compounds that have fallen on the base of the rhizome kill the growth point, lead to inhibition of the weed and its death. Salt is used in dry form or in the form of a concentrated solution. In all cases, the means of struggle:
- act directly on the selected instance;
- do not affect vegetation nearby;
- do not change soil fertility.
Except positive sides, at application folk methods wrestling has its drawbacks. On large specimens, the root system of which can reach 20-30 cm in length, household products doesn't work too hard.
Dealing with dandelions with a root remover
It is much more difficult than in the garden to deal with dandelions:
- on lawns;
- if in the flower beds almost the entire area is occupied by overgrown perennials;
- the land in the garden is under turfing.
This is where a spot dandelion remover comes in handy, which allows you to not cause serious damage to the grass cover, or directional herbicides or folk remedies.
On lawns and other areas with perennial turf, root removers of various designs are a real help.
The pointed edge of the tool easily penetrates even through the turf layer, cuts the soil around the rhizome and easily removes the plant along with the underground part. The holes left on the lawn after the dandelion remedy are small and quickly overgrow, especially if they are covered and the area is watered abundantly.
Do the same in the garden. The root remover saves on densely growing flower beds.
The use of herbicides: how to deal with dandelions in the country
Before dealing with dandelions on the lawn and in the garden with herbicides, you need to make sure that chemicals do not affect cultivated plants and lawn grasses.
Manual weeding or the use of mechanical devices is laborious and time consuming. Another thing is the use of modern chemical compounds that suppress weeds. Herbicides are indispensable if dandelions have filled the site, and it is simply impossible to deal with them manually.
The range of available preparations suitable for controlling dandelions in the garden includes preparations:
- killing all types of green plants that get sprayed liquid;
- selective action, destroying only cereals or rhizomatous weeds.
Means of wide action, for example, Roundup, Tornado, Agrokiller and other preparations, will save the garden not only from dandelions, but also from couch grass, thistle thistle and other annoying plants, which can be extremely problematic to remove in other ways. However, the effect of such herbicides does not end immediately after spraying. For a few more weeks, the composition oppresses everything that grows in the neighborhood. This applies to seedlings and seedlings planted in the beds. Therefore, large-scale chemical weeding is carried out:
- pre-covering cultural plantations and the soil under them;
- in early spring, long before planting vegetables, flowers or other useful plants;
- in the fall, when everything useful is removed from the beds.
Broad-spectrum herbicides that destroy all vegetation are used on wastelands, for example, after the purchase of a new site.
Specialized compositions act selectively. But when purchasing this or that remedy, you need to remember that the wheatgrass chemical does not necessarily help get rid of dandelions, but it can kill.
Before you permanently get rid of dandelions on the site, you need to choose the maximum useful drug, read the instructions and follow it without exceeding the permitted dosages.
To destroy dandelions in beds with potatoes, garden strawberries or on the front lawn, you can use the herbicide Lontrel-300D, which also suppresses the growth of sow thistle, perennial sorrel and other weeds. Especially for lawns, formulations have been developed that do not affect the growth of cereals, but suppress the development of dandelions, meadow chamomile, plantain, and thistle thistle in a few hours.
When using chemicals, use personal protective equipment and, until the solution dries, protect the treated areas from visits by pets and family members.
Herbicides kill above-ground part dandelion and its rhizomes, but cannot affect the seeds. Therefore, it is important to carry out all treatments before the weed blooms and flying seeds ripen on the heads. Plants pulled out of the ground are put into compost, sprinkled with soil, since the seeds can ripen here too.
How to deal with dandelions in the country, if it was not possible to prevent the resettlement of dandelions? In this case, you will have to remember about regular weeding. The spitting of dandelion seeds begins as soon as the soil warms up to 10-15 degrees. As long as the seedlings are small and the roots are weak, removing dandelions by hand is not difficult. In the future, loosening the beds will help.
Mulching or the use of a film covering the entire area of \u200b\u200bthe ridges, except for the places where tomatoes, zucchini or other useful crops are planted, helps to significantly reduce the population of weeds. This solution will be especially useful when growing strawberries.
Cultivated plants have not yet had time to properly take up and gain strength, and the weeds are already developing in full. So that weed grass does not “clog” your plantings, you need to fight it. Come to the aid of gardeners various tools for weeding weeds, of which there are a great many on sale. To get acquainted with them, we walked around the gardening shops.
Choppers for the garden
Choppers, hoes, rippers - these tools are indispensable for loosening and soil between rows, and for removing weeds.
On the shelves are various choppers: with wide and narrow blades, with round or pointed corners, triangular and trapezoidal. The main requirement for this tool- sharp blade.
Usually carbon steel is used for its manufacture. This material is easy to sharpen, does not rust if properly cared for. Now stainless steel choppers have also begun to be produced, they are easier to maintain and more durable. But their high quality also affects the price.
Chopper's older sister is a hoe. Its blade has the form of a semicircle with sharp ends, it is used for laying beds and holes for vegetables and potatoes on stony soils that are difficult to cultivate.
For earthing up densely planted plants, where it is impossible to use a chopper or hoe, a hoe is used - a steel triangle with a top pointing down, put on a short handle.
When choosing tools with a blade for weeding, pay attention to the thickness of the steel, it should be 2 - 3 mm, otherwise the blade will bend and wear off quickly, - advised consultant in one of the stores for gardeners Andrey.
Rippers are represented by an even larger assortment. They come in the form of small rakes, "cats" with different amount teeth. They are used for loosening the soil in beds or in flower beds. They belong to the category of small tools, large areas they are inconvenient to handle.
I would draw the attention of gardeners when choosing hoes and rippers to such a detail as handles, - says seller Alla. - Some manufacturers make short handles that cannot be lengthened in any way, others leave only a hole for the handle, and still others make a small handle, but with a hole for the handle. That is, the gardener can use the tool at close range, and by inserting a long handle into it, work while standing. This is very convenient, it allows you to significantly reduce the amount of inventory.
Manual cultivators
Another invention that allows you to loosen the soil is hand cultivators - star and serrated.
The toothed hand cultivator is used for loosening the surface of packed soil or plowing weeds. This tool is a three or five-pronged metal nozzle on a long stem. It should be pulled through the soil, usually while standing.
At the heart of the star cultivator (disk) are discs in the form of stars connected to each other. This mechanism works very simply. It is enough to hold them with a little effort on the bed, so that the sharp rays of the stars cut the roots of the weeds and loosen the earth. The width of the weeded beds depends on the number of star discs.
Root removers
Surely, many of you are familiar with root removers in the form of a narrow long spatula, which must be buried under the very root of the plant and carefully removed from the ground. The device helps to get rid of annoying weeds with a long tap root system.
For the same purpose, another little thing was invented. It looks like a screwdriver with a metal "antennae" at the end and a metal rounded "sail" along the entire length of the rod. Principle of operation: the root remover must be pressed into the ground next to the root of the plant so that the "antennae" are on both sides of the root. Then press the handle down with your hand, the root remover rolls along its “sail” and pulls out the weed.
The device is highly questionable. The "antennae" are very small to properly hook the root, and besides, they do not penetrate deep into the soil, which does not give any guarantee of completely removing the root of the plant.
But there are more advanced models that are in demand among gardeners, although the price for them is no longer a joke.
They have a large height, which allows you to work while standing and not get your hands dirty. The devices are equipped with a handle on top, and spiral-shaped pointed teeth directed towards different sides, and a footrest to drive the tines into the ground. Such root removers are manual and mechanical.
The manual root remover must be placed vertically above the weed, buried in the soil and rotated clockwise, and then pulled up along with the plant root.
I could not do anything to them, not a single movement, neither to the left nor to the right. I stuck it in, but I couldn’t pull it out, because the grass didn’t even catch on, and it also seemed heavy to me. Here all summer I stood in the corner, even the paint from the teeth did not peel off. I regretted a hundred times that I bought it. Perhaps I alone could not work with him, maybe someone will have solid admiration, - she shared her impressions on one of the forums for gardeners dacha Natalia.
It is likely that it will be easier to work with a mechanical root remover, since it has a handle that controls the process. The device is also placed vertically above the weed, while the handle should be in the down position. By pressing on the footrest, you need to drive the teeth into the soil so that they capture the root. Pull the tool out of the ground with the handle, pulling it up. After you return the handle to its original position, the weed itself will fall out of the teeth.
Anna, gardener and "admirer" of the root remover, said:
Super thing! Very convenient, fast, easy and most importantly - effective. All the terrible weeds were picked out, not buried. Thickets with wheatgrass - easily! He picks out all these kilometers of roots. And my husband - a well-known loafer - does not even think about touching a shovel. So we work side by side. Should have bought a second one.
Prepared by Natalia Berlizova.