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  • From: Allan Balliett <aballiett@frontiernet.net>
  • To: permaculture <permaculture@lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: Re: [permaculture] Tending the Wild, Wood Ash
  • Date: Mon, 18 Dec 2006 20:44:35 -0500

Rob - I have a flame weeder. It's not used to burn up weed seeds. It's used to wilt emerging weed seedlings, not by burning them up but by making them hot enough that cells rupture in the leaves and, in a few hourse, the little plants die. The weeder is NOT recommended for use on large plants or on established plants. Typical use: you make a stale bed for a carrot crop. Carrot seeds are notoriously slow to germinate, so there will be some extended bare soil time. Just before the carrots should emerge, you run the flame weeder and kill emerging weeds, some of them too small to have actually been noticed by your naked eye. You move the weeder fast enough to make certain that you DO NOT make the soil hot enough to destroy the carrot seeds. Make sense? It don't take a lot of fuel and it don't make a lot of ash. It can save a lot of subsequent hand weeding, though!




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