This will be my second season growing annual vegetables in our community garden. Last season we had a lot of success and great yields, but I spent far too much time on my hands and knees, pulling out weeds. Purslane, lamb's quarters, rye grass, etc. I just need to give my plants a head-start, as the weeding labor decreases significantly once their leaves shade the bare soil beneath.
I plan on using straw to cover the bare ground, but I know weeds will still come up through, with ample sunlight and irrigation in the community garden.
I have a stirrup hoe to doing broadscale weeding (in the pathways), but I plant densely, and need something with more precision to pick out the weeds growing near young seeds and transplants.
I see Johnny's Seeds selling a colllinear hoe, a wire-weeder, and a cobra-head weeder. All sold for cultivating and weeding row crops.
Has anyone used both and could recommend which one would be best for my small (20'x10') row-based annual garden plot?
