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I have to do a survey on what people use to deal with their weeds. Can you please select an option on the poll. Thank you.

I tend to use a mix of different weed killers (such as Pathclear for the patio/paths and round up or other direct action spray for isloated weeds), a weed and feed mix for the lawn and manual weeding in the flowerbeds/ growing patchs.

Hands or tools! Always. Easily best way heh.

what's 'roundup'?

I use tools/ hands.

A trowel just seems easier than farting about with chemicals.
Not that I actually do any gardening these days.

its a brand name weed killer, msotly sold in ready mixed solution often in speailist "direct action" sprays that allow you to aim the the spray directly ontoa particular weed.

I would do my law by hand as the actual weeds such as dandilions aren't a major problem, the issue is the bloody moss which is defiantly winning at the moment thanks to damp weahter, hopefully a bright and dry summer and lots of low level cutting combined with generous applciation of moss killer and grass feed will help.

I don't take the weeds out of my lawn, just too big. However in my own garden I use my hands or a spade depending on the weed. My garden is only about 10 x 2 feet so it not really hard to do it by hand.

I tend to just use my hands.

thers no such thing as a weed, a weed is only a plant thats growing in the wrong place , there is some evidence to show that in fact some weeds in your lawn is in fact helpful for the lawn

After an initial tilling, the garden gets Preen (keeps new weed seeds from sprouting). Anything that comes up anyway generally gets to stay.

As for the lawn, as long as it's green and isn't thistles or poison ivy, it's fine with me! And I like wildflowers and dandelions. The typical American lawn is soooo dull!

Unfortunately, it doesn't seem that I've been able to persaude anyone else around here that a lawn without flowers in it is just wasted space. Some will say how beautiful the yard looks in the spring (it gets covered in white flowers), yet they look horrified when I say that all it takes to get that is to ignore it until summer! People are so weird. I'd think they'd be glad to hear that they don't have to do anything special nor buy ripoff wildflower seeds!

i dig up the dandelions because the neighbors give me nasty looks when they start blowing all over the place. and i dig up the thistle, because i tend to not wear shoes once the weather starts getting nice, and i don't need to be picking thorns out of my foot. other than that, i leave it alone, maybe throw some grass seed down once in a while. everything else that grows there is fair game, and if we have a dry spell, all my neighbors who use chem lawn have brown lawns, and are out there nightly with water, and mine is green and fine.

oh, and i leave some (not all) leaves on the grass in the fall. again, this does not sit well with the neighbors, but it seems to serve the ground well.

I would have to ask the gardener!

Hands and tools.

I go outside and pull them up, I have not used weedkiller because I am a big fraidy cat and worry that I might do something terrible and kill everybody I know by accident....

I did do a bit of weeding on Monday as a matter of fact, after the first mow of the year, the garden was looking a bit messy so I made it worse, excellent.
I am the next Charlie Dimmock, although I find digging and slogging away in the garden with no bra almost impossibly uncomfotable, the woman is mad I tell you!

ain't no such thing as a weed. only invasive plants, usualy indiginous, where you don't want them to be. (or want something else they keep out competing)

companion planting and soil preperation is as much as i usualy do about it or need to. course i'm not growing commercialy, just to for looks and to go with the little trains, and anything green looks good to me.

them little snails and slugs are a bigger problem when starting new plants. just figgure the're gonna take anywhere from 1/3 to 5/6 of them. tried various chemicals and other methods. nothing i was able to impliment did any good.

i stick with low maintainence perenials. some more vulnerable then others when first starting, but once they get going good nothing natural stops them. and i don't try to.

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I smoke them.
*shifty eyes*
No, really, I light them up.

I smoke them.
*shifty eyes*
No, really, I light them up.
Now that's what I call gardening (http://www.secretarmies.com/images/day_flame.jpg):cool:

The garden around my home is a fairly small flower bed so I just use my hands and the essential weed removing tools!