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@ca.rr.com says...
Which would take the least total work, pulling weeds or hoeing? I
know that if you can pull a weed up roots and all it can not grow
back. If you just cut it off an inch or two below the ground with a
hoe it can grow back but hoeing is much easier.

What is you opinion? Thank you in advance for all replies.
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I use ours on wide expanses or long stretches. My favourite is the
stirrup hoe because, kept sharp, it just sails beneath the soil. I use a
Japanese gardener's knife for close in work as well as digging and
rooting out weeds.

My wife won a set of short, stainless, hand hoes and she's almost never
without one in the garden.

The way I figure it, If you keep after the weeds with a hoe, you can
disturb the disturbable, encourage dormant seeds for the next hoeing,
starve the perennial weeds and take off swaths of short weeds before
they can set seed.

A hoe in wet clay is a nearly useless tool.