HOME VEGETABLE GARDENING 



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. 



