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It was bought by my non-gardening OH. He's alreday upset that he's spent his hard earned money on something I won't use.
I'm pretty sure Roy that there are many things pretending to be organic.An apparatus for burning insects to death and destroying humus can hardly be one of them - organic can basically only mean 'natural', and the only way for me personally to keep my weeds down is to hoe regularly and pluck them out. Weeds are nature's way of covering and so protecting exposed soil, we only call them weeds, nature would call them plants.
Used correctly, a flame wand probably causes less harm to insect life than hoeing. There's a lot of misinformation about organic gardening and even more, a lot of people who don't know how flame guns should be used.
[Your OH must be really considerate for thinking of you and your weeds and parting with hard earned cash, IMHO you are one lucky lady ;DRoy/Busby, I use a flame gun like this for weeds in gravel/paved parking areas and paths, but don't incinerate them - just one pass, and they go flop and die in a few days.
.....I'm not keen on using it as it's a bit too heavy for me to hold comfortably and I'm one of the most unco-ordinated, clumsy people in the world and would be bound to set fire to something - probably my own boots ;D ......