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Gardening

beac

(9,992 posts) Sun Mar 11, 2012, 12:07 PM Mar 2012

"Natural and Effective Weed Control" OR.... [View all]

"I burnt my house down trying to get rid of Creeping Charlie!"?????

http://www.weeddragon.com/

The thought of frying some of the more persistent pestiferous plants I deal with every gardening season it tempting but, a) I garden mostly in containers and b) Yikes, FIRE!

Plus, is using propane to garden REALLY all that green?

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"Natural and Effective Weed Control" OR.... [View all] beac Mar 2012 OP

yeah, but i have a brick house, so mopinko Mar 2012 #1

Wonder if one of those little kitchen torches they make for beac Mar 2012 #2

Plus, it doesn't work... dmosh42 Mar 2012 #3

Dangerous and temporary-- beac Mar 2012 #4

Good lord, I can just see a neighbor Curmudgeoness Mar 2012 #5

But, just IMAGINE the other possibilities... beac Mar 2012 #6

Vinegar and boiling water kurtzapril4 Mar 2012 #9

Oh well. I guess the top is all I care about killing. Curmudgeoness Mar 2012 #10

I bought a "Swedish Weed Torch" from Lee Valley Tools about 10 years ago. Denninmi Mar 2012 #7

LOL--I couldn't see what it was. grand earth trine Mar 2012 #8

Isn't that last frame the mace cop? HopeHoops Mar 2012 #11

Pepper-spray your weeds away! beac Mar 2012 #12