Garden Tools & Supplies

Sometimes, making your own weed killer can be just as effective as the store-bought types. Make your own weed killer with tips from a third-generation flower grower in this free video on gardening.

Weed trimmers are useful instruments for any yard no matter how big or how small. Each spring as you dust off that old trimmer and begin to get it ready to start up, one of the things you want to...

A weed eater, also called a string trimmer or weed whacker, may be gas powered or electric. It is used to trim weeds and grass where you cannot use a lawn mower, such as around obstacles and along...

Working with a weed whacker is a great way to clear weeds, stray grass and other unwanted plant life from your yard. However, there are times when the string snags, tears or otherwise breaks and...

The "string" of the weed eater is perhaps the device's most vital part. The string spins from a driven shaft underneath the weed eater and acts like a blade. String-fed weed eaters have the...

STIHL Inc. manufactures a wide selection of trimmers (weed eaters) for residential and professional use. Every STIHL weed eater comes with an air filter to protect the inner parts and motor from...

At the end of last summer, the engine of my old gas powered lawn mower died. The stores had run out of new ones at the end of the season. But one store had a manual-push "reel" mower. My...

Gas weed eaters can make quick work of tall vegetation around the yard. The two-cycle engines are easy to operate as long as you remember to mix the gas properly with the correct engine oil....

This article will show modifications to a commercially available dandelion puller which doesn't work very well, into a really effective all around weed puller.

Using a weed eater to get to those places where the mower won't go is a great help to obtaining a perfect looking yard. Restringing a Ryobi weed eater is a task that many homeowners will have to...

Adjusting the carburetor on a Weed Eater, or any two-cycle engine, is necessary from time to time. Carburetors can be finicky in engines that require an oil additive in the gasoline mixture....

Once the warmer weather comes along, everyone's thoughts turn to spring and summer. If you have a yard and lawn, one of the things you’d probably like to do is minimize the amount of time you...

Maintaining a well-manicured lawn requires the proper equipment and one vital gardening tool that can help make the job easier is a weed eater. Whether working in a large yard or small area, a...

A gas-powered weed eater is a helpful gardener's tool for keeping edges of the lawn straight and chopping down unruly weeds that have grown too tall or too closely to a structure for the lawn...

A Weed Eater can be a great tool to help you keep your yard trimmed and looking neat around the edges. Unfortunately, the plastic cording only lasts so long on a spool before you need to change...

We've all been there. You finally got the weed whacker out to trim and edge the tall grass around the fences in the your yard. You got the weed whacker to start, and you were in the middle of your...

Modern farming and the floral trade rely heavily on chemicals to produce high yields from limited land. However, chemical pesticides and fertilizers were unknown less than a century ago. You can...

A Weed Eater weed trimmer can clean up around the edges of a house, building, fence and ditch. Maintaining a lawn is hard work, but it's even harder with a broken Weed Eater. To get a Weed Eater...

Weed eaters or string trimmers, are used to edge around sidewalks and driveways, trim weeds against the house or curb or around a mailbox. You can use the device any place that the lawn mower...

You're busy working on your yard when the string on the weed eater either comes unraveled or is in the need of new string. The following will help you re-string the weed eater quickly and help...

Weed knives are invaluable for digging weeds from the soil and between cracks in sidewalks and driveways. But the hard surface of concrete can cause the metal blade to become dull very quicky,...