In those cases where there are only a few weeds to confront, the solution does not have to involve the use of any kind of herbicide. It is when the number of weeds gets large that herbicides make a more effective solution.
Hand Weeding Tools
In our section on Hand Tools we include a number of hand weeding tools. They include:
Fiskar’s UpRoot Hand Weeding Tool
Weed Flaming or Weed Burning Tools
Weeding Tools by Snow & Nealley
Hound-Dog Weeding Tool
Weeding and Planting Knife by Wolf-Garten