Abstract: A hand attachable drainage valve having diagonally opposite ears with inwardly curved finger grasping areas between the ears to permit user with either larger or small hands to find a gripping postion that is comfortable for the user's fingers to grasp and guide the drainage valve into threaded engagement with the irrigation pipe and rotatingly secure the drainage valve to an irrigation pipe through hand pressure.
Abstract: A plant attachment device and a method for killing obnoxious weeds that includes the step of cutting a stem of an obnoxious weed to leave a cut end extending from the ground to enable a container having an herbicide therein to be placed over the cut end of the stem and members thereon for supporting the herbicide carrier on the cut weed stem to hold the herbicide proximate the cut end to allows the herbicide sufficient time to penetrate into the tissue of the weed to cause the weed to die.