Aids Hoes come in many shapes and sizes. Look for one that lets you work upright and comfortably, and that has a blade you can keep sharp. Oscillating hoes, also called stirrup hoes, slice weeds with a rocking movement. You pull a swan neck hoe toward you, and its sharp blade cuts through weeds. A wheel hoe has an oscillating or stationary hoe blade mounted on a wheel with two long handles.
Tillers chop up weeds easily.
But when used too frequently they can break down the texture of the soil and may harm earthworms and other soil dwellers. Use a tiller for major weeding removal jobs, rather than for routine weed control. A flame weeder is a small propane torch used to get weeds where other tools do not work, such as along walls or between cracks in the patio. Hand weeders come in all sorts of shapes and sizes, in styles old and new. The traditional forked dandelion digger remains an effective tool for popping dandelions and other weeds with long taproots out of the ground.