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  • From: Rob Kelly <marshall_mush@yahoo.com>
  • To: permaculture@lists.ibiblio.org
  • Subject: Re: [permaculture] Tending the Wild, Wood Ash
  • Date: Mon, 18 Dec 2006 11:44:20 -0800 (PST)

Just last night I was talking with a friend who
was curious about "fire weeders" -- propane
powered contraptions that you use to burn out any
weed seed. (You wheel along like a vacuum and
everything under the hood gets torched.)

I wondered whether such heat also killed
beneficials in the soil, or whether those deeper
in the soil quickly repopulated the top layer
that was burned.

Now that I think of burning as a tried and true
technique, I wonder again whether these fire
weeders, propane consumption aside, are a pretty
good idea.

Thoughts on the topic, anyone?

Thanks,

Rob




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