weeding isn’t fun for anyone. It is a necessary part to having a successful garden however! In today’s episode, I will show you a super amazing trick to help you weed your garden 5x faster AND keep most of the soil where it belongs.
sifter: https://rollingsifter.ecwid.com/
I had a space, about 2 years ago, where I wanted to plant succulents, but it was full of dirt and rocks. I used an old kitchen colander, dug up the area and sifted the rocks out. Worked great.
Perslain (I know I spelled it wrong :/ ) is very nutritious, full of anti-oxidants, and tastes great in salads. I only consider it a weed when it grows in the cracks of my driveway? I like when it grows in my garden? It doesn't seem to hurt anything, and seems to act like ground cover to control other weeds.
Any thoughts?
I do like the sifter idea though :)!
Vey good idea but thanks God I don't have that many weeds,,:)
Looks like a miniature worm harvester, that separates castings, worms. That's good thinking Luke. I've built a huge one before great idea now I need a small one. Thank you.
My chickens will love the weeds.
I like it. Thanks
Soil sifter link?
I recently found out boiling hot water in the hose also kills whatever it’s sprayed on.
Isn't Purse-line edible? You could be eating that….?
Thanks as always!
Put the purslane in a black trash bag a week in the sun, should be totally dead and compostable.
Very smart!! I love this method!!
I need one of those baby!!
Price for the rolling sifter $219.××)
Meanwhile me having nightmares because of bindweed in my beds
I just mulch my beds and that stops most weeds from even starting in the first place
I eat all my edible weeds and compost the rest. No more weeds or hunger.
you'll always have weeds with exposed soil.
I don't have weeds like that with heavy mulch…some pop up. but…
I just put that stuff in a slow or cold pile or mow it let it dry in the sun then return all that lost nutrients back to the soil as mulch.
farting around with a sifter is just too much work.
cool device prototype. You'd have to make sure that the dirt is dry though for it to work properly.
Really cool
I love your videos, Luke, and I have learned so much from you. I just wish you would get to the point rather than wasting the first 2 1/2 minutes of every video with an introduction.
Game changer!
I'll vote my first ever MIgardner "No, Luke" on this one.
I love your work, and you get a big gold star for effort.
This one is clunky, relatively weed specific, another thing to crowd the shed, and likely to get nubes tossing bolted crabgrass everywhere.
Weeding is a pain at times, but I don't see this doing much for the cause. I see it more like the Flat Stanley that makes it around the world as it hits garage sale after garage sale.
That's just my couple cents, but don't worry, I suspect this is my singular "No".
I wouldn't tell you if I didn't respect you and admire you. In that case, I'd say – "Bet the farm! This one's gonna be the next lightbulb!"
¯_(ツ)_/¯
this is so cool. yes alot of the topsoil and compost is lifted up. I need this.
You could make a tea in a bag dunked in water from the weeds before disposing in the green bin
I have to say first that I really love your videos! But this time, watching you weed by hand like that really made me cringe… You must give the Japanese weeding sickle a try (you can buy on Amazon). Though some kind of sorcery, it gets under the plant roots and just sort of magically "lifts them up" out of the ground, leaving the soil pretty much in place! And since it has a pointy end, it's super easy to weed around good plants with surgical precision. I promise you, once you try it and get used to it, you are going to make another weeding video. Skip a step: leave the dirt right where it is with no need for sifting nor carrying bulky equipment around! It's the tool I use the most, even for planting seedlings or making a trench for direct seeding. If I only could use a single tool for gardening, that would be it. And believe you me I've tried a bunch and then some…
Then, if you have chickens, let them process those weeds to something more appropriate for compost or for mulch or core.