I use one. It's... well... a lot of fun. So there's that going for it. But it's definitely a long-game solution. Anything more than very young seedlings will come back, so it's really repeated regular torching that gets the difficult stuff. I have a garden plot that was solid oxalis and wild onion/devil bulbs when I got it and over years of torch plus hand weeding plus tarp in winter and it's pretty much gone except for what the gophers bring in each spring. It's also very easy to accidently hit nearby desirable plants enough to at least temporarily damage them. Really I only use it on paths and empty beds. It's really good for killing grass seeds that are on the surface when you neglected to pull the plants before they set seed. I've just moved to a new place, where the previous resident built extensive succulent gardens. They're now full of oxalis pes-caprae and that's gotta go by hand if I want to keep the surviving succulents, but the torch is working okay on the oxalis in the open areas. Brenna Green Zone 9, Santa Cruz, California, USA On Sat, Feb 1, 2020, 10:26 AM Jan Jeddeloh <janjeddeloh@gmail.com> wrote: > > Can we talk about the “herbicide” known as a propane weed torch? Has > anyone used one of these things? I was thinking it might be good for > dealing with things like pop weed. I don’t expect it would take out an > established dandelion unless you hit the beast multiple times and exhaust > its reserves. > > Opinions anyone? > > Jan Jeddeloh, Portland, Oregon, Zone 8 ish > > _______________________________________________ > pbs mailing list > pbs@lists.pacificbulbsociety.net > http://lists.pacificbulbsociety.net/cgi-bin/… > _______________________________________________ pbs mailing list pbs@lists.pacificbulbsociety.net http://lists.pacificbulbsociety.net/cgi-bin/…