I was posting earlier in the https://excommunity.becomeanex.org/groups/exercising-and-health/blog/2018/01/05/lets-get-moving-2018... blog but thought the rest of what I had to say there would be more appropriate here.
Was talking about as we we get older and less able to weed on our knees that I've learned to sit on my butt and weed. Am also using more tool, less wrist. Wish I'd discovered this tool 10 years ago. It's brilliant. I feel like a tomahawk thrower when I'm doing an overhead thrust deep down into the earth with it full force. Great way to get out stress! I also, oddly enough, think of men with their legs apart doing the same thing. I mean if I had penis I'd definitely give it second thoughts! As I'm smashing this thing down pretty close to my spread-eagled private parts I do have an inkling of what their experience might be doing the same thing. lol
I've broken at least three of them by pulling their heads off when pulling up sod and weeds. OFF WITH THEIR HEADS! Course I did purchase them at Aldi's. So far the one my husband got me for a birthday present last hasn't broken - yet! lol
Usually I use this straight, simple shafted digger below. But in our former home we lived on shale, and here we live on clay. They're both hideous and require brute strength to get through the ground.
Though this next one saves the wrist a lot of torque - it doesn't get down as far as I'd like. Wish they'd extended the prong to the thong, if you know what I mean you gardeners.
Anyway, I'm 90% finished with the veg. garden. There are so many amazing weeds... from the carpet-like HIDEOUS clover to the dig-deep dandelion, to the you-better-get-it-out before it takes over Buttercup. And forget it when the tree seeds send up their saplings. Get a plier.
Anybody have any neat gardening tools that save you time and bodily injury? Also are there any gardening gloves out there that last more than 6 months?
My garden is generally filled with moss this time of the year, One pull gets quite a bit out. I use several tools first my hand for the easy pulls. Then I use the thatcher and hoe for the tough stuff After so many years I finally invested in a tiller, saved my back. No adrenaline rushes to regret.
I use the automotive gloves, rubber palm, spandex back. they last a long time. They can be washed in the washing machine if not too dirty. When I have a fresh manicure I double them up. 12 pair for 9 bucks from Sam's last several years.
I don't veggie garden anymore - but I used to do a 20' x 40' one with just a shovel, a rake and a hoe I used 4 x 8 raised beds within with straw covered pathways in between, so the soil was never walked on, stayed loose and was easier to weed. I got a load of sand to add to the soil when I created it. Made the whole thing by hand with just hand tools.
NOW my favorite helpers are a yard wagon
(You can carry your rakes, shovels, hoes, etc in one trip, and remove the bag of weeds to where they need to go at the same time. You can also use it for bundling sticks by laying the twine over the wagon and putting the sticks over it. And, I can fill it with dirt from the mulch pile and dump it where I need (it has a lever to use to dump. Great for carrying mulch, too)
a gardening stool that folds flat and can be used either kneeling (when mine heels) or sitting
These are like the gardening gloves I use - but my daughter has my camera and I can't find a picture of the exact ones:
(I have used these for YEARS!)
I also use surgical gloves for general, light weeding. Box of 100 is about $7.
NOW - if somebody can tell me what to use (besides herbicide) to get rid of onions in my yard, I would be most appreciative. I have dug them all in past years, but this year there is a bumper crop. They bend over when mowed and stick up EVERYWHERE after!!!
Happy gardening!
and THIS is what the gloves look like after 5+ years!
They are really quite comfy!
My favorite weeding tool has always been my children, but they do wear out quickly 
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Nancy, my gloves look like yours after 3 months! I've used those also, but they tend to be too short in the finger length for me. I have very long fingers. I like your wagon!
Jackie, nice tools!! I'll bet tilling with an electric tiller is rather tricky. Knowing me I'd run over the cord and electrocute m'self right quick.
Dawn!!!! Love that picture and the comment! Too sweet!
I love this.....I have a garden weasel I like. Its out on the shed and its pouring rain, so not gonna post a pic today but it is long handled with two bars to grip on top with 4 prongs below. I use it for weeding. you just jab it in the ground and twist and it brings up weeds really well. I would like to buy a mini tiller 
I love the idea about the automotive gloves for gardening JACKIE1-25-15, I usually always end up using bare hands because I love to feel the dirt and I get a better grip. Needless to say, I have ugly hands though. Good post G!
I have one of these also. I rarely use it. Great for getting up dandelions and crab grass though. But slow.
