Someone on our allotments has offered to lend a flame gun thing, I wondered what that was all about. Does it really work? And am I in danger of burning down everyone elses plots? Do you burn it all off, then dig as normal?
Used for what it was intended for flame guns work really well. They are intended to dessciate weed
seedlings, not to incinerate mature plants. They are very fast, you can almost go at walking speed, and non selective (don't use too close to crop plants!). Any attempt to use one to duplicate primitive slash and burn techniques misses out on the
slash part which, as the phrase suggests, was done first. As terces plot is virgin, probably full of seeds, he would most likely benefit greatly from using one as the council has done the "slashing".
