As lawn and garden equipment goes, none seems to have as many names as the noble weed trimmer — aka weed wacker, weed eater, weed cutter, string trimmer, strimmer or, in some circles, brush trimmer ...

The Bionalan weed cutter from Lyckegard is designed to decapitate seed heads from undesirable plants, reducing the risk of them spreading. Unlike Zurn’s elaborate Top Cut Collect machine, which uses a ...

The search for chemical-free weed control has led a Swiss company to develop a machine that uses mechanical power to produce a high voltage current, which is applied directly to plants through a ...