Re: Garden flame weeder

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Catriona, I love the goats idea. I watched a project in Asheville on a
hillside clear kudzu with goats that even had a sheep dog there to watch
over and protect them. It was fascinating! I wish this location ( in a
large park triangle) could be managed like this, but the knotweed is in
clumps across the meadow. What is particularly scary was the community note
made here that " tubers as large as a child's backpack" may be underlying
the problem!

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On Mon, May 4, 2015 at 10:53 PM, Catriona Erler <
Catriona@catrionatudorerler.com> wrote:

> Thereâs a company in Charlottesville called Goat Busters. "Goat Busters is
> quite simply the most environmentally sensitive method to clear land or
> control invasive species vegetation ever, short of going out and
> hand-pulling each and every little weed. From kudzu to honeysuckle, poison
> ivy to out-of-control privet hedges, Goat Busters can be your answer to
> control and eradication. â Thorough eradication of vegetation will require
> at least two applications of the goats. But in the end, there are no other
> negative âside effectsâ or long term negative impacts on the land."
>
> Catriona
>
> Catriona Tudor Erler
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> > On May 4, 2015, at 5:12 PM, Teri Chace via gardenwriters <
> gardenwriters@lists.ibiblio.org> wrote:
> >
> > I agree with this method, Peter, and would further add that a good time
> to make your move is in late summer/early fall, when the plant is sending
> starch reserves down to that daunting root system. C'est la guerre...
> >
> > Teri Chace
> > (author of How to Eradicate Invasive Plants, which I hasten to add is
> not an encyclopedia)
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> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Peter Garnham <editor@hamptons.com>
> > To: gardenwriters <gardenwriters@lists.ibiblio.org>
> > Sent: Mon, May 4, 2015 5:07 pm
> > Subject: [GWL] Garden flame weeder
> >
> >
> > 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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