Weed RazerPond skimmers
One tool lives on this shelf, and it earns the space. A stiff mesh basket on floats that lifts drift off the surface by the armload, and drops to the bottom once the floats come off.
Swifter Sifter, floating debris skimmer
★ 3.3 (25)Everything a blade cuts comes up floating, and everything the wind pushes ends against your bank. We built this basket to lift that drift out in armloads instead of handfuls. With the floats on it rides the surface; with the floats off the same basket drops and scoops what has already settled into the soft layer below.
$299.99price as last seen on the listingWorth reading first
Cutting handles the stalks. The roots and the soft black layer they grow from are a separate matter, and here is what a hand tool can and cannot do about it.
Roots, muck, and the work under the weeds