Flame Weed Killer

Danger Phoenix

Danger Phoenix

Danger Phoenix

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Just wondering if anyone in the Kingston Upon Thames area has a flame weed killer I could borrow for the weekend. My front and back gardens are jungles - we even have a family of foxes (I think there are 5 of them), living in back!
 
The flame things aren’t so good if your burning of live material as you have to drive off the water before it will burn. Best thing to do would be to use some weed killer and treat it twice then kill it with fire! :p

I would use sodium chlorate for the first two sprays then burn it off then use round up for what comes up after that.
 
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I got a few tubs from France as its dirt cheap and makes cool fireworks (uk stuff has an inhibitor) but a tub usually makes quite a large quantity a 5kg does 200ltrs and thats enough for 200m2. :)
 
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Here is a photo of my back garden. Its taken from my room, so the front 10m or so is cut off. I have also colour coded another image to show where the flowerbeds (green) are meant to be, and where there is meant to be path/paving (red) - most of the area behind the shed and greenhouse are meant to be red.

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/Edit: Imagine the greenhouse and shed weren't there, and then fill the whole area with red :p
 
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You need a petrol powered strimmer, and I can promise you that your garden will be no challenge. From your pictures, about 1-2 hours work. Make sure you wear long trousers, long sleeves, gloves and a face shield. Watch out for hedgehogs, otherwise they will end up as spatter on your legs...........

You will need to rake up afterwards!

Most hire shops will have them (strimmers, not hedgehogs.....).
 
As has already been pointed out, a weed burning tool is not really appropiate there, tehy are best for a hadfl of weeds growing in the middle of paving where you can't use weedkiller due to animals, etc

In your situation I'd strim it all down, mow the lawn and then run a screwdriver down the cracks in the pavement
 
Finally my time to shine, homebase garden centre employee, BOO YAH.
Whoever said the sodium stuff, if you want grass there after the weeds have gone then definitley do not use this, it basically nukes everything and kills the ground for a while and is harmfull etc etc. Give something like round up a shot, then be prepared to possibly use a moss collector as you will be left with tons of black dead moss.
Then finally, grass seed, whack that stuff on, possibly some Autmn evergreen, and bobs your uncle your sorted.
 
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Finally my time to shine, homebase garden centre employee, BOO YAH.
Whoever said the sodium stuff, if you want grass there after the weeds have gone then definitley do not use this, it basically nukes everything and kills the ground for a while and is harmfull etc etc. Give something like round up a shot, then be prepared to possibly use a moss collector as you will be left with tons of black dead moss.
Then finally, grass seed, whack that stuff on, possibly some Autmn evergreen, and bobs your uncle your sorted.
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I want everything thing to die - even the foxes! I have just gone and put that stuff all over the front garden. In the back garden I will spray everything apart from the lawn - its technically not a lawn, because we took all the turf off to level the ground, and never bothered to do it up again, so it just grew back by itself (most of it is weeds), lol!
 
Sodium stuff it is then, be warned though, it will kill everything, n you'll have a job getting stuff to grow on there for a while :).
 
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