This Clever Tool Pulls Weeds from Your Yard, so You Don't Have to Get on Your Hands and Knees

It's time to prep your garden by stocking up on potting soil and fertilizer, tilling your garden beds, and seeding your lawn. But as you plan for this year's dream garden, you should also anticipate your weed control needs to keep your yard pristine throughout the year. If weed control is the garden activity you dread the most because it requires either spreading harmful herbicides or getting on your hands and knees to do manual work, consider a weed puller tool that nixes both.

The Grampa's Weeder Original Stand Up Weed Puller Tool allows you to pull stubborn taproot weeds like dandelions while standing. It features a 45-inch bamboo handle topped with a steel forked head to effectively lift weeds and their roots from the ground. Simply hover the weed puller over the center of the weed you want to pull, press it into the ground, and lean the handle to one side to lift the root. As the weeding tool stamps into the ground, the forked clamp closes on the root to swiftly hoist out the weed.

Buy It: Grampa's Weeder Original Stand Up Weed Puller Tool, ($40, Amazon)

While it's designed to work in all soil types, toughies (weeds like docks and plantains that grow in hard, compact soil) may be difficult to grab in the rigid soil conditions where they often thrive. Moreover, the weeding tool is best used with taproot weeds like dandelions, or rhizomes like nettles instead of annual weeds that are sadly best pulled by hand or with a smaller tool. Tip: If you're unfamiliar with weeds, check out this identification guide that includes 33 weed varieties. Even though this garden tool works best with only a few specific weed types, it effectively removes some of the most stubborn and wide-spread species without much strain on your joints.

More than 16,000 Amazon shoppers love this best-selling garden weeding tool because it's easy to use and saves them time and pain when it comes to this typically grueling task. One shopper even said they were able to pull around 250 weeds in four hours without back or knee pain—that's about one minute per weed. "I have nothing but positive things [to say] on this AMAZING tool," a reviewer wrote. "It has literally minimized all my fatigue and discomfort in doing the weeding chore around my house."

If you're looking for a less painful way to rid your yard of weeds, then head to Amazon to shop this best-selling weeding tool for $40.