Lightweight gas weed killers

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• fidgetbones Posts: 17,618

  June 2023

  They burn the tops off , but the roots of dandelions and all the other pain in the bums come back.
  

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• Liriodendron Posts: 8,328

  June 2023

  In addition, the gas canister very quickly loses pressure, so you end up standing over individual weeds while the shrinking flame flickers about...  and as @fidgetbones says, even when operating on a full canister, only the tops get burned off - in my gravel drive, the roots seem to be kept cool by the gravel and the daisies etc spring into growth again after a week or so.
  
  I guess if you just have one or two small weeds they might be effective...

  Since 2019 I've lived in east Clare, in the west of Ireland.

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• B3 Posts: 27,505

  June 2023

  Sounds a bit dangerous to use in a drought.

  In London. Keen but lazy.

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• Busy-Lizzie Posts: 24,043

  June 2023

  Threw mine away, useless.

  Dordogne and Norfolk. Clay in Dordogne, sandy in Norfolk.

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• plant pauper Posts: 6,904

  June 2023

  I use mine to start fires but, as said above, the roots will still be ducking down... waiting...
  Useless as a weed killer but great for burning stuff.

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