I will admit that I use weed & feed in the Spring and as a result I do not get to "Zing" as much as I would like to. I have a Weed Zinger attached to a large dump cart that I pull behind my tractor just in case I see a Dandelion pop it's yellow head. I also keep a 5 gallon pail on the porch with another Weed Zinger in standby just in case I spot one pulling into the driveway. The life expectancy of a Dandelion in my yard is about as long as a Mayfly. The video clip below is o

There seems to be a lot of concern over the size of the hole that an upright weeding tool makes when it pulls the weed. Without overstating the obvious, when an object is removed from the ground a hole is created, the larger the object the larger the hole. We can't do much about that. A Dandelion's taproot can be several inches long if left unattended. It is quite difficult and very unlikely that you will ever remove all of the taproot by pulling a taproot up with mechanical