You *can *get gardeners’ flamethrowers. However, trying to be kind to the earth, for stuff growing up between walkway pavers and so on, I just end up dousing them with boiling water. Yes, I boil my weeds.
How well does that work? Can you do it to a plant without harming another plant next to it? How much boiling water do you need- about how much would an electric kettle full of it do? I’m considering this approach for the creepers that are trying to take over my herb garden, since it wouldn’t run the risk of leaving anything on my herbs that I wouldn’t want to eat. The herb garden is also right outside the kitchen door, so if you don’t need insane amounts of boiling water to do the job, it wouldn’t be too hard, either.
I want a flamethrower for the stuff between the patio stones. I hate having to deal with it, so a flamethrower would be good for getting out my hostile feelings toward those weeds. It doesn’t help my mood that bending over to put Roundup on those weeds is hard on my back, either.
Lay down a sun blocking weed barrier and cut slits to insert your herbs. You only need to pull a few weeds right next to the herb stems. Lack of sun light will kill the creepers.
That’s precisely it. I don’t want a garden flamethrower, I want the biggest mother fucking flamethrower they have, and if it only comes mounted on a tank, I want the tank to. I want that monkey grass not just to die, but to suffer, and I want to leave one sole surviving piece of monkey grass, so it may run back to all the other monkey grass around the world and warn them all about that crazy son of a bitch with the mother fucking tank mounted flamethrower.
That is a plus of the Roundup method- the weeds do seem to suffer. They get really droopy over the next day or so, and seem to take a few days to die. And the best part is that my kitchen window looks out on the patio, so I get to watch them droop and die. If it weren’t for the back pain it causes, or the fact that waiting for a few days when rain isn’t likely and I have time to do it is a pain, I’d positively enjoy squirting Roundup on those damn weeds.
Plus, a tank would probably wreck the patio stones, and a sighting of an apparent psycho with a flamethrower in my neighborhood would probably drive down property values. It would be cool, though. I bet the neighbors’ teenage kids would think it was cool, too. I could probably get them to pay me to let them use the flamethrower on the weeds.
I think I shall be investing in one of these for my gardening needs. 2000 F sounds just about right to deal with my star-of-bethlehem (aka sleepydick) problem.
This is just so the torch or flamethrower people know. People do burn down their house or neighbor’s house occasionally when they decide to burn away the problem.
Wimp. Give me this
War is hell. Acceptable loses in the war against mondo grass, I say.
Awesome. But maneuvering it around my pansies might be a problem.
No. Seriously? Injudicious use of a flamethrower may lead to accidents? I don’t believe you.
No shit Ogre. Judicious use of them does too.