@@SilverCymbal This seems like a huge gimick to me. This might be OK early in your garden growing season, with wide spacing between your plants (after $350, and you put up metal guards to protect your individual plants). I don't know what kind of plants you're growing, but pruning is a chore necessary for good garden health. And weeding the type of plants this thing is designed for is VERY easy, since they haven't established their roots. If your garden is healthy enough for harvesting, this thing won't fit.
@@SilverCymbal finally the tool i wanted to "replay" my robot-rimworld world, now i just need to find the corpse-removing robot....^^ cool thing, 350 does not look to be that expensive, lawn robots cost 500+
@@emmakai2243 Tertill works great in a mature garden as well. With tomatoes, peppers, onions, and other plants that grow upwards, Tertill simply weeds around the stems under the leaves. With smaller vine plants, like cucumbers and cantaloupe, Tertill works well if you trellis them. Tertill weeds around the stems. With larger vine plants like pumpkins and squash Tertill weeds around them until they cover the ground area. At this point, the leaf coverage tends to be dense enough not to need much weeding. It works best when these are grown on an edge so that Tertill can still make its way to the rest of the garden. Then at the end of the season, Tertill keeps weeds from growing and going to seed, helping your garden for the next year. It is important to keep weeding to not contribute to the weed seedbed under the soil and it's too easy to forget this after you have collected your final harvest.
@@marsdiggy8 He's a sulcata tortoise, and he'll eat only what he likes (not everything) and can get to. They are strong and can be very destructive when he wants to get to something. Not a pet for someone without a large enclosed yard, with protected garden and landscaping.
I wonder what would happen if you got a goat (they eat most things) and then sprayed Bitrex onto the plants you want to keep.. Bitrex is a bittering agent added to things you don't want people drinking like methanol... Even the tiniest amount is extremely bitter..
@@marsdiggy8 He's a sulfate tortoise. He eats a lot of different stuff, but not everything. You have to protect what you don't want trampled. He's comes to me like a dog, just a lot slower :)
No garden lawn mowing robots that are quality can cost 1 to 3 thousand bucks 350 bucks is not a outrageous price for what your asking for a solar powered weed robot.
This makes me want to start gardening again. I work 12-14 hour work shifts, and when I do get home the last thing I feel like doing is weeding a garden. Wow this is tech is a game changer. I love it!
@Linda Ystueta Being lazy and gardening do not mix, its like having little kids that need constant care. Adding a gadget to save a minimal amount of time is not enough. As far as time goes your right up to a point but have to admit there are a TON of people that have too much time on their hands to the point you could make the argument that they should get a hobby like gardening LOL. I suppose this thing has its place but for most people I'm not seeing it.
@@petebusch9069 - some of us have physical limitations that prevent us from doing what we'd like to still be able to do. We don't need people like you calling us lazy.
yeah, exactly! We need a lawn weed eater robot. We already have a robot to cut the grass. It can't be too hard, can it? Train the robot to recognize all types of weed or let the user input the photos of them. Arm the robot with some tweezer-like armory that can pull the weed out as it scans around the yard. I'd pay a premium for it!!!
Excellent information. I was going to buy one of these things, but the garden it will weed is so small that it's not worth buying for anyone except a city gardener.
1. Put down plants and then then surround with newspaper. Then put dirt on top of paper..Weeds won"'t grow through the news paper. 2. For a non-vegetable garden with big bushes and plants, use cardboard and cover with mulch. Weeds can't grow for years. 3. In my garden I used plastic mats, like a door mat but thinner. They were meant to click together to make a large mat for your garage floor. 14"x14". The weeds that grow up through the mall holes in the mat die when you lift up the mat and drop it back down on them bending them over. It takes about 3 seconds to lift a mat and drop it straight down. There is no way for you to line up the weeds with the existing holes they grew through. Mashed down flat under the mat, they die.The holes in the mat let water pass through. Its been 2 months and the crabgrass and weeds just gave up. They don't try to come through the mat anymore. I also have a stable non muddy way to walk into the garden. Critters also don't like the feel of the plastic mat on their feet and avoid it. Whatever grows between the plants where there are no mats, I use an $80 flame weeder and destroy the cells and they don't grow back. Decades of weeding and this year nothing.Flame weeder does interlock and sidewalks and lights fireplaces, charcoal, stick burner smokers, fire pits and your neighbor's fence. Still wanna spend $400 on a robot?
@@overlord4509 ua-cam.com/video/2YfkmLHCNM4/v-deo.html The mats are for garage use and happened to suit the purpose. There is no such thing as a weed mat. It was an idea I had that worked, The Swiss trax at 9:20 is what mine looks like, but mine are flexible, no name ones I got from Lowes for about $8 each, ua-cam.com/video/0M94hkUtlOU/v-deo.html
Interesting gadget but man... Simple mulching is so much easier, cheaper and almost zero maintenance. It's also very healthy for your soil. Also, this robot can't reach like 3" to edge and even more to corners. So still have to do manual work if no mulch
Could you please doa video on how to clean your gutters from the ground?I would be interested in a leaf blower extension for the gutter VS a shop Vac with a gutter extension.My fathers getting older don't want him on a ladder.
I tried this in one of my rose beds with very little success it just seemed to circle and ultimately dig a hole, I was hoping for some helpful hints here but am not seeing where we might be going wrong. The Tertill did less than a human could have done in the same amount of time as cute as may be. I am frustrated because I tested it one day too long to return to Amazon.
You always have cool videos! Do you know if this only works on smooth terrain (dirt) or will it work in mulch and Rock gardens? I absolutely hate weeding!
I have the same questions. I also wonder if the robot accidentally made its way out of my bedding would it make bald strips in my grass until I caught it?
What's the minimum height the weed has to be for the robot to attack it? Asking because this year the amount of spurge is crazy in my garden. I'm even finding it growing in my potted plants!! But it's very low to the ground that when I hand-weed I use an old bent dinner fork to yoink it out.
@Silver Cymbal, I own a robotic lawn mower. So I am actually a believer of robots that can do the job. From my initial impression by looking at tertill, there are 2 very basic requirements that might put me off. Req #1, the garden area must be a continuous piece of land for the robot to travel freely. I have a vege garden where I have splitted into sections with some concrete slabs to walk on them to harvest and to avoid stepping on the soil of garden bed. Req #2, the plants must be at least the robot-diameter apart so that the robot can go around and eats weeds. But that significantly reduces the area of my vege garden significantly. For example, I have rows of plants because they span across from left to right and they are less than 6" apart. The robot won't be able to travel between these rows at all. So I need to have "openings" for the robot to travel between rows. Thoughts?
So this would not work for mulch beds because it would just be the boundary fence and then grass. It has to be on a well defined space like a raised garden bed.
So...you could actually use it in a bed if the bed was only dirt. I tried a few experiments and our pinebark mulch was an issue. It really wants just dirt but you could use this for a playground that had a dirt area, but yes it still needs an edge to bounce off of.
A simple algorithm that works. Neat, if it is big, leave it be. Kill everything small, not behind a fence. You can kill anything if you cut it off at the ground once a week!
I think this thing either needs to cost waaaay less, under $100. Or needs to cover a much larger area to be cost effective. There are much cheaper alternatives that have been working already for literally centuries.
Like what? What other autonomous low-effort weeding devices have been around for centuries? I am a commercial landscaper and this robot is awesome and could even put me out of business with time LOL
@@winterssiege4624 Never mentioned automation... You're literally in the line of work I was making reference to. I.e. "go spend 10 minutes doing what this thing does and save the money" or use one of the many gardening methods that heavily suppress weeds, such as the ruth stout method. I'm not going full Thunderfoot saying the idea itself is bad, I'm saying that this iteration of the product isn't worth while. I will even say that if it could accomplish more and/ or cost much less, I would be one of the people buying it. As is though, it's just not worth it in my opinion.
I'm aware that most people don't have as much garden as I do, but I would need 10+ of these thing for the amount of raised beds I have. They also don't cost "only" $349 where I live.
Probably has a disclaimer that it's not for hot areas... In my area batteries swell and explode due to the heat... You can't leave a liion battery outside or in the car... I doubt this runs on Lead Acid or NiMi.. Not enough energy VS weight...
This is like v15 already. They spent a lot of time and money developing this product to what it is before launching. Fun fact, they launched this on kickstarter (it was an already fully developed product by then).
Maybe, just tape some small crabgrass plants to their shoes first. You know your vegges better than me! I haven't hard a garden before due to the weeding, this little thing gives me some hope
u wanna work in my garden? 30 min every day in the summer for servel years for 400,- u are hired. i did not now i can hire some to that for for that amount of money.
I'm gonna buy this thing just to have it roaming my backyard, I will remove the weed Wacker wire and let it freely roam my yard, my neighbors will freak when they see it.
It will get. Cheaper as time goes on. But if you get five years out of the robot(350/5=70)....70 a year to not have to weed the garden is well worth it
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Wow! It actually did a pretty good job. My initial thought was, "Yeah right. I'll believe it when I see it."
I felt the same, it was very impressive. And if you put it when you are startimg the season you could pretty much never weed at all
@@SilverCymbal This seems like a huge gimick to me. This might be OK early in your garden growing season, with wide spacing between your plants (after $350, and you put up metal guards to protect your individual plants). I don't know what kind of plants you're growing, but pruning is a chore necessary for good garden health. And weeding the type of plants this thing is designed for is VERY easy, since they haven't established their roots. If your garden is healthy enough for harvesting, this thing won't fit.
@@SilverCymbal finally the tool i wanted to "replay" my robot-rimworld world, now i just need to find the corpse-removing robot....^^
cool thing, 350 does not look to be that expensive, lawn robots cost 500+
@@emmakai2243 Tertill works great in a mature garden as well. With tomatoes, peppers, onions, and other plants that grow upwards, Tertill simply weeds around the stems under the leaves. With smaller vine plants, like cucumbers and cantaloupe, Tertill works well if you trellis them. Tertill weeds around the stems. With larger vine plants like pumpkins and squash Tertill weeds around them until they cover the ground area. At this point, the leaf coverage tends to be dense enough not to need much weeding. It works best when these are grown on an edge so that Tertill can still make its way to the rest of the garden. Then at the end of the season, Tertill keeps weeds from growing and going to seed, helping your garden for the next year. It is important to keep weeding to not contribute to the weed seedbed under the soil and it's too easy to forget this after you have collected your final harvest.
Got a 65 lb tortoise that cuts weeds. Plus he turns them into fertilizer.
How much for the tortoise
@@srlowpez88 He's family. Not for sale.
@@marsdiggy8 He's a sulcata tortoise, and he'll eat only what he likes (not everything) and can get to. They are strong and can be very destructive when he wants to get to something. Not a pet for someone without a large enclosed yard, with protected garden and landscaping.
I wonder what would happen if you got a goat (they eat most things) and then sprayed Bitrex onto the plants you want to keep..
Bitrex is a bittering agent added to things you don't want people drinking like methanol...
Even the tiniest amount is extremely bitter..
@@marsdiggy8 He's a sulfate tortoise. He eats a lot of different stuff, but not everything. You have to protect what you don't want trampled. He's comes to me like a dog, just a lot slower :)
Every once in awhile there's a gadget that surprises me. This wins the surprise award and $350 is not bad at all!
No garden lawn mowing robots that are quality can cost 1 to 3 thousand bucks 350 bucks is not a outrageous price for what your asking for a solar powered weed robot.
if there was less thieves in my area i would consider it XD
but it's really neat, i could see this reducing the workload in small farms
This makes me want to start gardening again. I work 12-14 hour work shifts, and when I do get home the last thing I feel like doing is weeding a garden. Wow this is tech is a game changer. I love it!
This thing is awesome. Makes me want to plant a vegetable garden.
Me too, honestly that's why I didn't have one before.
@@SilverCymbal if your to lazy to pull a few weeds then gardening is not for you, not trying to be a dick.
@Linda Ystueta Being lazy and gardening do not mix, its like having little kids that need constant care. Adding a gadget to save a minimal amount of time is not enough. As far as time goes your right up to a point but have to admit there are a TON of people that have too much time on their hands to the point you could make the argument that they should get a hobby like gardening LOL. I suppose this thing has its place but for most people I'm not seeing it.
@@petebusch9069 - some of us have physical limitations that prevent us from doing what we'd like to still be able to do. We don't need people like you calling us lazy.
@@someoldguy383 If you can't pull a weed by hand then how can you manage the rest of the garden, you don't make any sense.
Excellent post !!! All of us gardeners can use good ideas for weed control. Much appreciated
Thank you very much
I've seen various types of these. Pretty dang cool!
If they could make one to weed the lawn, that would be great!
If they can do that lawn care would be a lot easier!
I was thinking the same exact thing! 🤞🤞🤞
yeah, exactly! We need a lawn weed eater robot. We already have a robot to cut the grass. It can't be too hard, can it? Train the robot to recognize all types of weed or let the user input the photos of them. Arm the robot with some tweezer-like armory that can pull the weed out as it scans around the yard. I'd pay a premium for it!!!
This little robot is a savor to humanity!
Kudos to whoever thought up that robot, great idea.
My uncle did! :-) but seriously...
Very cool. I love your videos. So informative and very professionally done. Thank you!
Very nice of you to say, thank you so much
When you mentioned you were from Massachusetts, I couldn't help but hear the accent after that. "It can get wet, muddy, none of that mattahs"
Excellent information. I was going to buy one of these things, but the garden it will weed is so small that it's not worth buying for anyone except a city gardener.
1. Put down plants and then then surround with newspaper. Then put dirt on top of paper..Weeds won"'t grow through the news paper.
2. For a non-vegetable garden with big bushes and plants, use cardboard and cover with mulch. Weeds can't grow for years.
3. In my garden I used plastic mats, like a door mat but thinner. They were meant to click together to make a large mat for your garage floor. 14"x14". The weeds that grow up through the mall holes in the mat die when you lift up the mat and drop it back down on them bending them over. It takes about 3 seconds to lift a mat and drop it straight down. There is no way for you to line up the weeds with the existing holes they grew through. Mashed down flat under the mat, they die.The holes in the mat let water pass through. Its been 2 months and the crabgrass and weeds just gave up. They don't try to come through the mat anymore. I also have a stable non muddy way to walk into the garden. Critters also don't like the feel of the plastic mat on their feet and avoid it.
Whatever grows between the plants where there are no mats, I use an $80 flame weeder and destroy the cells and they don't grow back. Decades of weeding and this year nothing.Flame weeder does interlock and sidewalks and lights fireplaces, charcoal, stick burner smokers, fire pits and your neighbor's fence.
Still wanna spend $400 on a robot?
Hey. Could you provide links to the mat and the flame weeder please.
@@overlord4509
ua-cam.com/video/2YfkmLHCNM4/v-deo.html
The mats are for garage use and happened to suit the purpose. There is no such thing as a weed mat. It was an idea I had that worked,
The Swiss trax at 9:20 is what mine looks like, but mine are flexible, no name ones I got from Lowes for about $8 each,
ua-cam.com/video/0M94hkUtlOU/v-deo.html
I would love to see how it does in a plant bed w Mulch or bark
We approve this method!
It's cool if your yard supports it!
Interesting gadget but man... Simple mulching is so much easier, cheaper and almost zero maintenance. It's also very healthy for your soil.
Also, this robot can't reach like 3" to edge and even more to corners. So still have to do manual work if no mulch
How can anyone dislike this video? Are you a bunch of bots who are jealous of how it works?
Must be the decepticons
@@SilverCymbal lol.
I don't like it and think its a really stupid product designed for people who have no idea how to garden.
Could you please doa video on how to clean your gutters from the ground?I would be interested in a leaf blower extension for the gutter VS a shop Vac with a gutter extension.My fathers getting older don't want him on a ladder.
Great new product - thank you
I tried this in one of my rose beds with very little success it just seemed to circle and ultimately dig a hole, I was hoping for some helpful hints here but am not seeing where we might be going wrong. The Tertill did less than a human could have done in the same amount of time as cute as may be. I am frustrated because I tested it one day too long to return to Amazon.
Ha. I have never seen this before. Amazing.
It is a cool little guy, like Roomba for the yard
Silver Cymbal very cool. We still have our Roomba from like a decade ago. Like the concept.
Unbelievable.... what will they think of next? 👍
Love the video there is definitely more improvements to come to the company
You always have cool videos! Do you know if this only works on smooth terrain (dirt) or will it work in mulch and Rock gardens? I absolutely hate weeding!
I have the same questions. I also wonder if the robot accidentally made its way out of my bedding would it make bald strips in my grass until I caught it?
@@rell3001 😁😁😁😁
This robot would faint only seeing my thistles !!!
When do we get a reel mowing robot? 😋
Now that would be something!
What's the minimum height the weed has to be for the robot to attack it? Asking because this year the amount of spurge is crazy in my garden. I'm even finding it growing in my potted plants!! But it's very low to the ground that when I hand-weed I use an old bent dinner fork to yoink it out.
Looks like around an inch..
The cutter doesn't move up or down so measure from the bottom of the wheels to the cutter...
I'm in!
How does this work in a rock yard. I bet it wouldn’t be able to move across rocks easily with those tiny wheels
With rocks no, it needs a soil surface to be most effective. It can handle level changes and some holes but rocks, not so much.
great vid, I'm going to get one eventually.... thanks a bunch
That was a pepper plant. Not a tomato. Just saying
@Silver Cymbal, I own a robotic lawn mower. So I am actually a believer of robots that can do the job. From my initial impression by looking at tertill, there are 2 very basic requirements that might put me off. Req #1, the garden area must be a continuous piece of land for the robot to travel freely. I have a vege garden where I have splitted into sections with some concrete slabs to walk on them to harvest and to avoid stepping on the soil of garden bed. Req #2, the plants must be at least the robot-diameter apart so that the robot can go around and eats weeds. But that significantly reduces the area of my vege garden significantly. For example, I have rows of plants because they span across from left to right and they are less than 6" apart. The robot won't be able to travel between these rows at all. So I need to have "openings" for the robot to travel between rows. Thoughts?
Awesome that robots can reduce/replace herbicide use in the future if cost goes down enough
That price is tough, amazing piece of Technology, is it waterproof?
It isn't cheap but yes it is water resisent, not sure it can be submerged but it definitely is sealed again, rain and sand mud.
How much?
So this would not work for mulch beds because it would just be the boundary fence and then grass. It has to be on a well defined space like a raised garden bed.
So...you could actually use it in a bed if the bed was only dirt. I tried a few experiments and our pinebark mulch was an issue. It really wants just dirt but you could use this for a playground that had a dirt area, but yes it still needs an edge to bounce off of.
400 Bucks???? Out of my budget. Too pricey.
I need this for my gravel path where the weeds keep coming back
Thats awesome.
A simple algorithm that works. Neat, if it is big, leave it be. Kill everything small, not behind a fence. You can kill anything if you cut it off at the ground once a week!
Shut up and take my money! I don't even have a garden.... yet.
I think this thing either needs to cost waaaay less, under $100. Or needs to cover a much larger area to be cost effective. There are much cheaper alternatives that have been working already for literally centuries.
Like what? What other autonomous low-effort weeding devices have been around for centuries? I am a commercial landscaper and this robot is awesome and could even put me out of business with time LOL
@@winterssiege4624
Never mentioned automation... You're literally in the line of work I was making reference to. I.e. "go spend 10 minutes doing what this thing does and save the money" or use one of the many gardening methods that heavily suppress weeds, such as the ruth stout method. I'm not going full Thunderfoot saying the idea itself is bad, I'm saying that this iteration of the product isn't worth while. I will even say that if it could accomplish more and/ or cost much less, I would be one of the people buying it. As is though, it's just not worth it in my opinion.
I'm aware that most people don't have as much garden as I do, but I would need 10+ of these thing for the amount of raised beds I have. They also don't cost "only" $349 where I live.
This cute green thingy would get eaten alive by my giant hogweeds
Probably has a disclaimer that it's not for hot areas...
In my area batteries swell and explode due to the heat...
You can't leave a liion battery outside or in the car...
I doubt this runs on Lead Acid or NiMi.. Not enough energy VS weight...
I don't think so they are intended for outdoor high heat. Their web site might have more info on this
So , when r they goin to use MY idea n make a robot clean up ur dogs poop in ur yard? Ah... hello..
That would seriously make someone rich
There is such a robot supposedly in the works to do just that. Search "Beetl"
It's called vapoorize 😂😂😂
Cool !
This is one of those "I'll wait for v5" products.
This is like v15 already. They spent a lot of time and money developing this product to what it is before launching. Fun fact, they launched this on kickstarter (it was an already fully developed product by then).
The "leave me alone, I'm a tomato" was dead wrong. That was a pepper plant.
People who grow cannabis will hate this
Pretty nifty!
Whoa!
I need a turtle to take weeds from the lawn.
Take my money 💰
quick question, will this target the ankles of bad neighbors? Edit: 2:07 Oh dear, that is a pepper plant
Maybe, just tape some small crabgrass plants to their shoes first. You know your vegges better than me! I haven't hard a garden before due to the weeding, this little thing gives me some hope
Ppl are that lazy? For $400 I’ll go to you every week and pull it out myself . Good product !! But if you’re lazy you shouldn’t do gardening
u wanna work in my garden? 30 min every day in the summer for servel years for 400,- u are hired. i did not now i can hire some to that for for that amount of money.
Smart!!!
Wow
Better design is a weeding mechanism to mimic human hands rather then cutting.
These robots making us lazy.
Add a scanner to identify type of plant. Then make it in a humanoid form and build in AI.
This thing looks like a turtle
I'm gonna buy this thing just to have it roaming my backyard, I will remove the weed Wacker wire and let it freely roam my yard, my neighbors will freak when they see it.
You should send one to Laura ar Garden Answer for testing. She has 964K subscribers that can view and promote it.
Sooo it can take out all types off weed? Seems useless in my garden. You name it, I have it.
At some point robots will do everything.
You can plant, water and harvest your veggie garden but you can’t pick a few weeds. Haha! Get a grip! And pull (the weeds). Fun tech but wasted IMO.
I like your friend's shoes! meow
😊👍
For the low low price of $349!
It will get. Cheaper as time goes on. But if you get five years out of the robot(350/5=70)....70 a year to not have to weed the garden is well worth it
Next video. tertill spreads a dog turd, all over the lawn.
Yeah but it won't weed my lawn Soo won't do me any good thanks anyways..
Too expensive!
lol it doesnt work. you need to PULL the weed OUT
Oh cool.....$349 BYE
God forbid people actually go outside and do their own work anymore. Dumbest product ever.
@@CatinthehatOct1989 You'll spend more time dicking around with this toy than just doing the work. Stop being allergic to work.
Device for the lazy lol
What bullshit. If you don't pull weeds by their roots they will return. Waste of money