Last year I grew lots of onions and wanted a safe way to weed around them. They were grown double row with a hill and irrigation channel setup 3 rows wide...anyway I have lots of painting equipment around. Found that the little 4" mini roller is an excellent weeding tool for delicate situations. I have 4" mini rollers with least three different length handles and several of them have threads on the end for various extension handles. These things are cheap.

I'll try to explain it but you have to try it to see how nimble yet tough and versatile these thing are. Would work well for all beds and containers too.

So, first it can be used like a mini stirrup hoe on baby weeds, flipping it over with the open end or the closed end towards the plants for accuracy. Also the point where you would slide the roller on can be sunk in the ground at an angle around a root of a weed so as to hook that weed and yank it out with minimum soil disturbance....easy as pie....you'll be shocked to find out how quickly you find yourself at the end of a very tidy row.

I have thought about sharpening the edges of this tool on a grinder to make it cut better, but it works pretty good so I haven't bothered... maybe someone would like to do that?

It works while the weeds are small not on big weeds. Much easier to get them while they are small anyway.

Today I used it briefly working with it around small Zucchini plants, it was nice how it could slide between the dirt and the leaves that were close to the ground.