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 Have to concur with some of the other posters June 22, 2005
SLW
12 out of 12 found this review helpful
I was given a Garden Weasel as a gift some years back, and the idea of a new garden implement which would reduce hoeing and manually cultivating was promising; unfortunately however, the thing simply doesn't work.
Although the concept seems good, the times do not really dig up or cultivate the soil, it merely scratches the surface of it a small amount no matter how vigorous a back and forth motion you put it through. In order to effectively cultivate soil, tines need to rotate at relatively high speed (as in the case of a power cultivator, or dug in and lifted outwards and upwards like in a manually pushed cultivator), something in which the Weasel is incapable of.
For people with small to midsize gardens, my advice would be to invest in the little power tillers (e.g. Mantis and the like)as well as the old tried and proven traditional garden tools to effectively work their garden soil.
Like many ideas the Garden Weasel seems like a good one at first, but falls quite short when put to actual use.
Weed Collector April 14, 2006
Ladybugn79
12 out of 12 found this review helpful
It is a weed collector and not in a good way. Everything gets so tangled in the Garden Weasel that it is rendered useless in a few strokes. It does not till the soil very well at all, usually I end up with a very sore back the next day because I have overextended myself trying to get the Weasel to work. I have tried to use it on numerous occasions without success. I was really disappointed too considering the rating that it had on Amazon. I would definitely take it off of the essentials for new gardners list because it would surely turn people off to gardening.
 garden wonders September 28, 2000
9 out of 12 found this review helpful
Fabulous service and product. I was so happy to find this product in the off season and at such a great, low price. I also purchased the garden claw. Now the soil can be prepared for bulbs and such. These tools are so excelent that if my garden could show you,it would. THANK YOU!!
 It actually works pretty well. August 1, 2003
Michael J Edelman (Huntington Woods, MI USA)
8 out of 10 found this review helpful
I bought my Garden Weasel about eight or ten years ago at a local (now defunct) home store chain. At the time I'd been using an inexpensive mini-tiller that drank gas and oil and jammed up regularly, and a couple of hand cultivating tools that took a lot of effort for little result. Being the lazy sort I'm always a sucker for something that claims it'll do my work for me. I tried it in my 20x20 vegetable garden, and you know, it actually works. It's not a tool for breaking up hard soil- but then, my cheap power rototiller didn't do that very well either. The Garden Weasel does one thing, and that is weed betwween the rows of a vegetable or flower garden, so long as you use it on a regular basis. Leave the garden for a month, and you may as well get out the machete and the heavy dutytiller. But used for its intended purpose, it's pretty good.
Awesome if I would get off my rear end to use it!:-) September 24, 2001
Charles F. Hamsa (Lafayette, LA United States)
6 out of 17 found this review helpful
Dear Friends,
The Garden Weasel works great! But I have to get outside to use it. And in the bayou country of Louisiana, no one ventures outside in the summertime for too long a period of time!:-)
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