Re: Any suggestions on a blow torch weed buster?

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wow!  Thx Kate...sounds like it is not great one way or another...hmmm...I
hate to use crossbow and trying to get a better solution. We've been
digging them up, but they are persistent!

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On Mon, May 4, 2015 at 1:19 PM, KTCopsey--- via gardenwriters <
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> I only know about Japanese Knotweed - nothing helps (chemical or natural).
> There is a little insect that is being investigated but the local ag people
> need  EPA approval to test before they let the little guy go to private
> properties. We  have dug up as many large roots that we can find and the
> density is improving  but it is indeed a pariah in my landscape - and was
> not
> declared  either!
>
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> In a message dated 5/4/2015 11:18:12 A.M. Eastern Daylight Time,
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> Help  dear garden gurus... I need to non-chemically kill knotweed  and
> ranunculus...anybody have experience with the best practices  with
> blow-torches? There are many on the market. I was looking for a  backpack
> model. Knotweed, Polygonum multiflorum, is the scurge of Cashiers,  NC.
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