#$%^&*AU2014101297A420141120.pdf#####ABSTRACT A garden and lawn weeding tool has a shaft (12) which has a handle (14) at a top end and, at a bottom end, has a forked portion (16) with a pair of tines (17, 18) for penetrating soil to an optimal depth and for engaging opposite sides of one or more roots of a weed, The tool includes means for using leverage to remove the weed when a user grips the handle (14) and is in a standing position. The tool has a downwardly and outwardly projecting foot plate (19) extending rearwardly from a bottom of the shaft (12) and against which a user presses a foot to facilitate soil penetration by the forked portion (16). The foot plate (19) is continuously curved through an angle of between about 80 degrees and about 100 degrees forwardly towards an extended axis of the shaft (12). There is a foot member (22) behind which the foot plate (19) is secured and projects outwardly. The foot member (22) extends beyond a bottom edge of the foot plate (19) to define the forked portion (16). In use, the forked portion (16) and a leading portion of the foot plate (19) penetrates the soil and the continuous curvature of the foot plate acts as a fulcrum against the surface of the soil when leverage is used to remove the weed.-C6,c() 0___ LU: 0 oo CA)A >；9 + 10N
