A weed eater is a great tool for gardeners to use in their yards. Weed eater allows us to get into places that we can't with our mowers. It helps us control weed. We should remember when using the weed eater that safety comes first. We might want to have safety glasses on, air plugs, certainly pants and clothes told shoes. When we use the weed eater we want the head to be parallel to the ground. Use it flat. If we turn it sideways, we might weed in the ground, destroying some roots, allowing some weeds to get in. The most important thing to think about when we're using weed eater is around trees. With a young tree like this we want to stay at least a foot away from that tree. If we hit that tree bark, we're going to destroy some bark there. If we destroy that bark even a little bit it's going to be a permanent damage where insects and disease might get into that tree. If we hit it enough times we could damage that tree enough that it could possibly die. So we want to stay at least a foot around that tree. A much better system is to maybe hand clip around that tree or even better to make a mulch ring where we don't have plants growing up close to that tree. We want to make sure not to hit the tree with this power tool. This is Hudson Hill University Wine Extension. You're watching to the ground up.