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Posted on 5/16/17 at 7:50 am to
Posted by No Colors
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Posted on 5/16/17 at 7:50 am to
Help me out here: Under what scenario is burning weeds with a propane torch the right way to go?
Posted by lsugrad35
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Member since Feb 2007
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Posted on 5/16/17 at 7:56 am to
Someone will explain this to us. I've just seen them marketed for this more lately than I can remember.

Weed Dragon

I think they're good for keeping them out of the cracks of the driveway. I assume also if you're like me and have a drainage swale that is nothing but weeds. I've also read that if you're going to lay sod, rather than spraying roundup prior, these are a good option. Not sure though...which is why I'm asking.
Posted by Huntinguy
Member since Mar 2011
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Posted on 5/16/17 at 8:39 am to
For those "green" folks who are scared a little paraquat or glyphosate is gonna make their chirren be born nekkid or their goober fall off.

I will say that a couple of years ago, I set my tiller down in green sod to pull up some garden rows and I wished I had one of these to burn the rhizomes that I pulled to the top and raked up to keep them from sprouting.

This was only a problem because I decided spur of the moment to put in a garden and didn't use glyphosate/cardboard ahead of time to kill the vegetation.
Posted by Wtodd
Tampa, FL
Member since Oct 2013
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Posted on 5/16/17 at 9:09 am to
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Help me out here: Under what scenario is burning weeds with a propane torch the right way to go?

When you're doing it for a friend at his place
Posted by Duckhammer_77
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Posted on 5/16/17 at 9:13 am to
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Under what scenario is burning weeds with a propane torch the right way to go?


when you're too lazy to actually weed your beds. first use round-up on the weeds, then burn away the dead.
Posted by Clames
Member since Oct 2010
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Posted on 5/17/17 at 8:34 pm to
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Under what scenario is burning weeds with a propane torch the right way to go?


It's using fire. When is using fire not the right way to go?
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