weed killer

If you don't want to go down the rambo path with the flamethrower and the area is not too big I have used one of those hot air blowers you stip paint with its ideal for the odd weed

 

Got one exactly the same Dendi. A bit older but then instead of the �£149 bargain price, mine was �£12 at the local car boot sale.
Sounds like a tornado jet (seems to burn fuel at the same rate too) when running full blast and as frogesque says - best to walk backwards (particularly over gravel).
I noted the blurb in the advert said it was handy for thawing frozen pipes too. With a flame temperature of 2000 degress I would think there might be a possibility of some pretty looking puddles of molten copper!

 

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Sorry to say - have never used a flame thrower. Am not sure what difference it makes to the poor insect life - to be fried or drowned in weed killer?

Mowing has always been the best solution but it requires a good deal of effort and does not easily rid you of ground elder and other similar weeds.

 

So what's the solution, C Hobart?

 

I've found it somewhat difficult to mow the veg plot and the gravel paths as well as the lawns. Doesn't do much for the state of the mowers. But maybe my technique is lacking in something.

Have to admit that mowing takes a bit of effort. I do it regularly on three lawns. And I then consign the clippings to one of our four compost/worm bins/heaps.
I've also just errected a second very des-res for over-wintering insects for those who don't take refuge in our 'wildlife garden' and I'm currently drying eight sunflower heads for bird feeding in the winter.

Come November the flamethrower will be out and blasting out 2000 degrees and I'll be getting my jollies by by burning off the last of the top growth of weeds and the seeds in the veg garden that are lurking in the top couple of mm of soil.

Sorry bugs,but c'est la vie. It's you or me.

 

I feel that flame throwers in this day and age should be avoided for all the non-green reasons and for the sake of the hundreds of bugs being killed which are beneficial too.