Re: Garden flame weeder

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We have dug out the big tubers - the size of a kid's backpack and solid  
which is what keeps it going and protected from pesticides. I have threatened 
to  use the flame thing but we have lots of trees and that concerns me. I 
may yet  try it on open areas which this thing likes. BTW there was news 
report a while  back and some Long Island nurseries are selling Japanese 
Knotweed!!!! 

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In a message dated 5/4/2015 5:07:39 P.M. Eastern Daylight Time,  
editor@hamptons.com writes:

I use  the Red Dragon backpack flame weeder. I had an infestation of  
Japanese
Knotweed on a property here, and I mowed it to death. I set the  mower to 
the
lowest level and scalped it, over and over, every time it  appeared. After
two years, I wore it out! The tubers store energy, like a  battery, and by
forcing it to keep using that energy but not recharge by  photosynthesis I
beat  it.

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