I'm happy to see you and Phoebe prowling around the garden again.

Always love the flame weeding episodes! 👍

I planted comfrey inside my blocks. They grow insanely well in our climate. Provide you with green manure in their leaves, their roots dig extremely deep to pull up nutrients for your other plants to reach, and you’ll never have weeds in you block holes again. The only potential downside is once you plant them you’ll never get rid of them. That’s fine with me as I also use them to feed my chickens and rabbits so I can’t ever have too much of it.

❤ we did burn today too. The weeds are out of control this year.

Thank you for leaving in the tarp blowing in the wind. Sometimes I feel like it's only me who has those problems. 😢😢

Best thing I did was to buy a torch and a Milwaukee tiller attachment. Could not have imagined the time these two items save me in my raised beds. Bought a 200 gallon trough from Tractor Supply to mix my soil and compost out of the compost pile together for my containers. I have doubled my growing potential in less time.

Flame weeding. Of all the garden videos I've watched, this is the only one my husband ever got excited about, lol! (Btw, artists -- like me -- pay good money for vine charcoal like you made from your grape cuttings.) 🙂

I love the blow torch! We have one and hubby hid it! I wanted to do the snow and ice on the driveway with it. 😂

I think your flame weeding is fabulous, it save many hours of back breaking work to clear it.

Hi Scott, would love to see you on March 22&23 at Mercer Botanical Gardens.

I never knew how much I wanted a flame weeder until now 🤣 It’s going to make cleaning up my garden so much easier and fun!

People should know to use a small torch to cut that woven fabric so it won't fray and not scissors. It will last alot longer.

Great video! I have not tried burning them, but today I filled up a whole paper sack of nasty weeds... so healthy and robust lol

Welcome back! 😊

good looking carrots.

Wow! You got the flamethrower out. I have a smaller flame weeder I use to recover overgrown paths on some properties I work on. Never used it on the garden. It cleans the weeds up pretty quick and as you say the ash is minimal. Now promise you won't let the garden get that bad again. I never do. 🤣

I have Bermuda grass all over my garden. We cover with black plastic during the winter. In the spring after removing the plastic we burn and leave the plastic off for two to three weeks until things start to sprout again, then cover again with plastic for two more weeks. It's a ton of time and moving plastic twice, but it keeps the Bermuda grass out until my plants get established. I am putting in more raised beds every year, but can't afford more than one or two each year. God bless y'all and keep growing.

You need to cut and trim with a propane torch. No loose ends.

I definitely want a flame weeder. Our weather is strange this year too in Va. We've had quite a bit of rain this winter, a few snow flurries, but it's like a weekend event now , you know it will rain. Then once summer gets here , it will get drier. Trying to get it dry enough to work the garden now to start spring planting here.

Ok it's time to add a flame weeder to my got to have list!

My single seedling died. my seedlings are pathetic, so will have to replant outdoors as the weather cooperates. I will put the flops into the compost or containers.

I too use a flame weeder. Nice to get the garden tidied up. I've been out today preparing for the upcoming season in Central Arkansas 8a. I've heard it said that we are separated from the other animals in the kingdom by fire and thumbs. There are few other ways as well. Another discussion for another day.

Hi Scott thanks for sharing. I'm heading to harbor freight this week to get me a flame thrower. Great idea. I have an over grown spot that I was wanting to plant some sweet corn. I was going to hoe out the weeds but this is much easier and kills the top bed seeds as well. Many thanks from Texarkana.

I have been on the fence about flame weeding but you convinced me. enjoyed this one very much

just got my double layer block raised bed built. Working on getting dirt and making sure it's cat proof.

I literally use my weed flame for weeds all the time. Walk ways, driveways and walk ways in my garden….

I’m watching your video right now and I am hoping that you use a small torch to put the holes in your weed fabric for the plants. Cutting it with scissors or knife is not a good idea because it will unravel. It will save you many a headache, and money by using the small handheld torch method.💚 Great video Scott!

looks like your on your way.i have yet not tried the flame method but it does work well.

Eat the borage flowers in a salad 🙂

and the ash is good potassium

Farmers & Ranchers do a controlled burn on their fields & pastures. You just did a mini controlled burn!

Thanks for the garden tour. I love the borage that reseeds itself every year. All I have to do is transplant them. They really confuse the squash vine borers. My single seed challenge this year is a ground cherry. Still nothing showing yet. Started it in vermiculite.

Love your video. I think I have a flame thing in my garage that was my mother in laws. So going to get a tank of propane and have at it. Don’t know why I haven’t thought of this. 🤔anywho. Thank you so much. Happy Gardening.

Somebody's been watch'n a brother.

I wish I could do this because I have a serious weed problem in my raised bed. But, it's in a community garden in a county park so there's no way they would allow it. It is also full of potato bugs.

@ScottHead

5 ай бұрын

I'd go in and just do it and not ask. ;-)

Its been a tough couple garden years in our area but I have high hopes for this year. We seem to be actually having a spring and getting some much needed rain (fingers crossed for more this week). I lost many things to the drought but what is a gardener to do but begin again.

I bought a torch to weed with but it didn’t work right. I want one like yours.

So you plan to cut holes into that fabric to plant or you are just putting it there until panting time to keep weeds down then you’ll remove it? It seems like if you used a regular mulch like wood chips it would cut down on the weeds as well as adding nutrients to the soil when it decomposes. I’m in central Texas and every winter we get storms that break off a bunch of tree branches all over the place. I collect them and chip them up to use as mulch and have covered my whole garden that way. It works really well to keep the weeds down and when they do pop up it’s easy to pull them out.

@ScottHead

5 ай бұрын

I plan to cut holes and grow through that. The soil is already very healthy and this practice is easier than wood mulch for an old dude like me. I'll do wood mulch in the future again but this is something I do from time to time.

@ScottHead

4 ай бұрын

Mulch would be good, but the weed cloth is a periodic "go nuclear" method to really kill weeds. Mulch eventually gives up to the weeds in late summer here, the weed cloth will not.

Nice way to kill weeds. How do you process your rosemary? I have a bush a little bigger than yours and was wondering if you prune or just cut what you need. Thanks have a great night.

@ScottHead

5 ай бұрын

I cut what I need but when it gets huge sometimes I chop it back to encourage new growth of tender young branches.

@ralph601

5 ай бұрын

@@ScottHeadGreat. Thanks.

@ScottHead

4 ай бұрын

I just cut what I need usually.

Hey there Mr Scott! Great video! Do you think I could flame throw weeds in metal beds? We're converting most of ours from wood to metal and easy cleanup would be a great excuse to buy a flame thrower, lol. Single seed challenge died on my end....however.....4 more popped up in it's place! It was a mystery volunteer I found out in the garden.

@ScottHead

4 ай бұрын

I would think you could, but be mindful of the plastic strip around the edge, it might melt.

@mostuniquemary

4 ай бұрын

@@ScottHead The ones we have don't have that so we might be ok. I'll update in the fall. 🙂

Do you think the flame affects any other nutrients in the soil? I just did a big reset and flamed a lot in a bed that was taken over by fire ants…wondering how much amending I should do…any ideas?

@ScottHead

4 ай бұрын

Not too much of a change, it just converts the weeds to ash and carbon and there is not too much ash to worry about. I amend every year though just to keep healthy soil.

New gardener here so this may be a silly question…but does anyone know if I can use this torching method if I follow the square foot gardening method and have peat and vermiculite mixed in with my compost?

@ausfoodgarden

5 ай бұрын

No reason you can't, although if you have a large percentage of peat, don't let the flame stay in 1 spot on your soil for too long, and keep it high in case it burns a bit of your surface peat.

@ScottHead

4 ай бұрын

It would work just don't linger on any one area of soil too long.

@MissNolaMarie

4 ай бұрын

Thank you both!