{"id":14039,"date":"2013-04-10T08:00:11","date_gmt":"2013-04-10T14:00:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dailyimprovisations.com\/?p=14039"},"modified":"2013-03-31T10:35:41","modified_gmt":"2013-03-31T16:35:41","slug":"helpless-female-discovers-a-dandelion-weeder-is-good-for-extracting-weeds-by-the-roots","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dailyimprovisations.com\/helpless-female-discovers-a-dandelion-weeder-is-good-for-extracting-weeds-by-the-roots\/","title":{"rendered":"Helpless Female Discovers a Dandelion Weeder is Good For Extracting Weeds by the Roots"},"content":{"rendered":"
\"a<\/a>
a dandelion or hand weeder<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

When I first saw<\/strong> this type of weeder, I thought it was a joke. Why would someone buy what seemed to be a straight stick? It’s not that I’m impressed by complicated tools, but I didn’t see what this tool had to offer.<\/p>\n

I have<\/strong> seen it advertised as a dandelion weeder, or simply as a hand weeder. My wise mother-in-law gave me mine.<\/em> I left it with the other tools until she came out to my garden one day. As she casually and effortlessly pulled weed after weed from my garden, I saw I had misjudged.<\/p>\n

Part of the problem<\/strong> was that it’s simplicity had me envisioning just sticking it in the ground. Like that was going to do a lot of good.\u00a0<\/em>Possibly, if I had just tried it, I might have accidentally wiggled it and learned something. Perhaps if I had remembered basic physics and how leverage works, I could have saved myself work all those past years.<\/p>\n

\"I<\/a>
I usually stick the dandelion weeder into the ground at about a 45\u00b0 angle<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

The dandelion weeder\u00a0<\/strong>has turned out to be perfect for many of the weeds that grow in between the pavers lining my garden paths. Even with there being a layer of weed barrier fabric and pea gravel over which the pavers are laid, the dandelion weeder creates minimal disturbance to the soil and still gets the weed out.<\/p>\n

\"it<\/a>
it only takes a little leverage to loosen the weed roots<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

I know\u00a0<\/strong>that some of the roots go past the depth of the weed barrier fabric, and sometimes I puncture it, but if the weed root is already putting a hole in the fabric, another small one to get it out doesn’t seem so bad. \u00a0I have tried just pulling them by hand or waiting for weather conducive to spraying herbicide \u00a0– only to either have break it at ground level or have them grow quite large before I could spray.<\/p>\n

\"perfect<\/a>
perfect weed root removal with ancient garden wisdom ease<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

I have now noticed<\/strong>\u00a0these dandelion weeders on sale in every garden center I have been in. \u00a0They are always some of the least expensive items in the store. \u00a0After all, it is just basically a stick with a handle<\/em>. \u00a0\ud83d\ude09<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

When I first saw this type of weeder, I thought it was a joke. Why would someone buy what seemed to be a straight stick? It’s not that I’m impressed by complicated tools, but I didn’t see what this tool had to offer. I have seen it advertised as a dandelion weeder, or simply as […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[3,19],"tags":[35,49],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyimprovisations.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14039"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyimprovisations.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyimprovisations.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyimprovisations.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyimprovisations.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14039"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dailyimprovisations.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14039\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyimprovisations.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14039"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyimprovisations.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14039"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyimprovisations.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14039"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}