HOME VEGETABLE GARDENING 
HAND WEEDING 
N O 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. 
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