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Weeding by hand can be tough on the fingernails and skin of your fingers. To avoid hurting your hands, and to give yourself a stable grip on the weeds, use cotton gardening gloves. You can purchase cotton gardening gloves at any nursery or gardening center.  Hand weeding is an effective, though time-consuming and tedious, method of controlling weeds. This method is preferable in small lawns, or in lawns not completely overrun with weeds. If weeds in your lawn are widespread, another removal method will be more practical. The blade of the trowel or digger should be at about a 65° angle—not quite vertical, but largely upright. Drive the tool into the soil about 4–5 inches (10–13 cm) to loosen the soil surrounding the weed’s roots. Repeat this 3 or 4 times, loosening the soil on all sides of the root. Trowels and dandelion diggers can both be purchased at a local plant nursery or gardening center. Both should cost less than $5 USD. To properly remove a weed, you need to pull it out by the root. Hold the base of the weed firmly, using your full hand—don’t just pinch the stalk of a weed using 2 fingers. If you’re pulling up a clump of weeds, grasp the entire clump at its base. Perennial weeds like dandelions can be plucked most effectively in early spring. If left to grow until summer, the dandelions will have put down thick taproots. Loosen the root in the soil if you feel resistance when you attempt to uproot it. Twist the base of the root back and forth 5 or 6 times. This will loosen the weed’s roots in the soil and make it easier to pull.  If you pull too hard without rotating the weed, its stem will snap off but the root will remain in the ground. The weeds can quickly regrow from a root still in the ground. If there is a small hole left behind after you’ve pulled the weed, fill it with some loose soil. Carry a small trash bag around with you as you move across your lawn pulling weeds. As soon as you’ve plucked weeds—whether individual or in large clumps—from the ground, toss them into the bag. This will prevent the weeds’ seeds from scattering over your lawn.
Purchase a pair of thick cotton gloves. Press a trowel or dandelion digger into the soil near the base of the root. Grasp the stalk of the weed at its base. Rotate the base of the weed as you pull it out. Toss weeds into a trash bag as soon as they’re pulled.