I WANT one of these!!! My entire yard is dying of mystery disease-lawn included. I REALLY want to burn the whole thing down to kill whatever it is. I've baked my soil in beds, to no avail. My feet and tools infected whole yard. Also chock full of prolific noxious weeds. I live in city though-infection is in neighbor's lots too. I was thinking about seeing if city might give permission because it's a plague and I HAVE to kill the weeds anyhow.
Absolutely, makes perfect sense. I am sure that would be totally beneficial for your garden. I have a small garden and most everything I plant is in containers. I would love to be able to somehow burn my soil from the previous year to kill disease and insect eggs etc. But I really have no way of doing it that I can think of. I still amend my old soil with nutrients and add new to use the next year, but I feel Im bringing any disease I had along with it.
I dug up and baked soil sheet-by-sheet. Put cooked dirt in double paper bags to cool, then in huge plastic ones. Big job but similar affect. Can just do top few inches and put it back once cool.
As soon as you want, no reason to wait. I prefer to till the burned material into the soil where it becomes available in the soil for effect. Tilling also helps to manage pests. I also add lime once in awhile to help control pH.
I'm sorry to ask such a specific question, but i honestly can't find the information anywhere. Im struggling this year with HUGE amounts of noxious weeds in the garden. I assume from a bad batch of hay or straw. Here are the weeds that have become an issue: Spiny amaranth, cocklebur, ragweed, nightshade & morning glory. While some aren't terrible, 2 are toxic to my pigs & goats. My poultry & the wild birds will inevitably spread these all over my farm and into my pasture. My question: Sometimes fire helps seeds grow. Do you know if these weeds will be stimulated by fire or controlled? I will say, I regularly use fire in my gardens, but more only on problem areas like my squash plots or any plot my chickens will live on over the winter (to give them nice ash to bathe in. And I have a tendency to burn piles over the entire area vs just with a torch. But I do use the torch too in some places. In my area, poke & Tree of heaven are a problem and fire seems tohelp them grow vs helping kill them off.
Get some good clean dry hay, put a4 to 6 inch layer over entire garden area... burn it... it'll burn and smolder hot enough to wipe out a lot of pest seeds, also dampen with a hose shortly after the burn, till it a couple times. Do the layered burn before tilling. Might take a couple years to really knock the bad stuff out, but it will work... if you use hay during garden season to keep weeds from getting sun and moisture retention, be sure it's clean hay. And again, end of season after all weeds near by have done their seed cycle, burn it it before the seeds get through the hay to the ground. Get them cooked before they get a chance to get in the ground
Typically, plant seeds do not survive fire. I only know of Lodgepole pine and morels needing fire to reproduce. I don't think any of those will, but morning glory stolons are really deep. I have noxious so bad, I have covered large areas with black plastic sheeting for a few years. Ugly, but solarizes seeds to death and blocks out light should they germinate. Morning glory WILL try to run stolons out from under it, but simply RoundUp those diligently. 😊
I wouldn't recommend this to everyone. You have just burnt 98% of your nitrogen, 91% of your carbon and 61% of your sulfur. and some potash and phosphate (now this is an estimate because I don't know what type of crop residue you had)(Heard et. al., 2001). By burning you just released all that carbon into the atmosphere you could have returned to the soil. We stopped this practice long ago.
Works well for me, results don't lie. You've got to figure out what works for your soil. Be patient with yourself, you'll get figured out and one day you'll turn around and your garden will be rockin'!
I have chickens, I till in their crap after the burn and boom... nitrogen galore, you get potash from the ashes from burning, plus carbon to till back in... phosphate is the harder one to get, unless you work in the fire trade like do and you can get old fire extinguishers to till that powder in, an ABC extinguisher has phosphate and sodium bicarbonate in it.. few other minerals.... good fertilizer.
I get leaves and pine straw, pile it up about 2 feet deep, 3 ft diameter, burn 95% of it, spray it with the mister on my hose, then chop it up into the soil with a small pick axe. It helps raise my PH to a better level and adds nutrients. Then all summer I mulch with green and dry handfuls of grass clippings and chopped/mowed leaves. I`m poor, partially disabled, no car, so I have to use what`s around me here in rural Louisiana to amend the soil because I get ripped off over and over trying to order crucial supplies and I think it`s a DELIBERATE WAR AGAINST POOR PEOPLE who try to grow food...for instance...MANURE IS NOW TOXIC TO VEGETABLES. And my soil is horrible because of the previous people living here. I bring soil from the woods in a wagon, dump it in 3 ft diameter piles 4 to 6 inches deep, and to test these small areas I plant various bulk seeds and transplant seedlings from pots or the ruined part of my soil where they`re stunted, then slowly add things until I see growth and health. Now I burn leaves on top before planting. Ashes are one of the few ways I can add otherwise extremely expensive nutrients. I`m sick and tired of ordering some expensive crap online, waiting 3 weeks, and then it gets lost and they try to say there`s no refund. Try being poor. You will pay ten times what something is worth and you still might never receive it. I need every last item I order or I wouldn`t order it. But each month I order gardening supplies that never arrive and get scammed. Like the grossly overpriced bag of 20-20-20 fertilizer I ordered last month...of COURSE I never received it! Or my FOOD has a shipping delay of three weeks! When you need the sardines you`ve ordered NOW and they trick you you`re SCREWED! And if you`re poor YOU ARE AUTOMATICALLY SCREWED in America! They`ll poison the fertilizer next and say...."Oh well! It was just a mistake but now your garden is ruined!"
I burn in the late fall in our back to Eden garden and it noticeably helps prevent weed encroachment and pests every year.
Absolutely!
NICE!!!!😊❤
Thank you for this information!!
That'll be great for lighting the BBQ too!
Just about any lighting anything
Its works great actually $20 harbor freight. Light the weber all the time. Neighbors think I'm certifiable though... lol
I WANT one of these!!! My entire yard is dying of mystery disease-lawn included. I REALLY want to burn the whole thing down to kill whatever it is. I've baked my soil in beds, to no avail. My feet and tools infected whole yard. Also chock full of prolific noxious weeds. I live in city though-infection is in neighbor's lots too. I was thinking about seeing if city might give permission because it's a plague and I HAVE to kill the weeds anyhow.
Absolutely, makes perfect sense. I am sure that would be totally beneficial for your garden. I have a small garden and most everything I plant is in containers. I would love to be able to somehow burn my soil from the previous year to kill disease and insect eggs etc. But I really have no way of doing it that I can think of. I still amend my old soil with nutrients and add new to use the next year, but I feel Im bringing any disease I had along with it.
Maybe look at biochar as an option
I dug up and baked soil sheet-by-sheet. Put cooked dirt in double paper bags to cool, then in huge plastic ones. Big job but similar affect. Can just do top few inches and put it back once cool.
Starship troopers. Nice.
How soon after burning do you plant or how long do you let it rest? How do you prepare the soil afterwards?
As soon as you want, no reason to wait. I prefer to till the burned material into the soil where it becomes available in the soil for effect. Tilling also helps to manage pests. I also add lime once in awhile to help control pH.
Does this kill early and late blight spores, and tobacco mosaic in the soil?
@@jasonsechrist1 not certain, but I know it won’t make it worse. It can only help.
Thanks for sharing,very informative 😊
You're welcome anytime, and thanks for watching.
Would it be less efficient, but safer to wet the actual weeds or area you are burning?
Could be.
Great video!
Thanks! Did you use fire this year?
I'm sorry to ask such a specific question, but i honestly can't find the information anywhere.
Im struggling this year with HUGE amounts of noxious weeds in the garden. I assume from a bad batch of hay or straw.
Here are the weeds that have become an issue: Spiny amaranth, cocklebur, ragweed, nightshade & morning glory. While some aren't terrible, 2 are toxic to my pigs & goats. My poultry & the wild birds will inevitably spread these all over my farm and into my pasture.
My question: Sometimes fire helps seeds grow. Do you know if these weeds will be stimulated by fire or controlled?
I will say, I regularly use fire in my gardens, but more only on problem areas like my squash plots or any plot my chickens will live on over the winter (to give them nice ash to bathe in. And I have a tendency to burn piles over the entire area vs just with a torch. But I do use the torch too in some places.
In my area, poke & Tree of heaven are a problem and fire seems tohelp them grow vs helping kill them off.
Get some good clean dry hay, put a4 to 6 inch layer over entire garden area... burn it... it'll burn and smolder hot enough to wipe out a lot of pest seeds, also dampen with a hose shortly after the burn, till it a couple times. Do the layered burn before tilling. Might take a couple years to really knock the bad stuff out, but it will work... if you use hay during garden season to keep weeds from getting sun and moisture retention, be sure it's clean hay. And again, end of season after all weeds near by have done their seed cycle, burn it it before the seeds get through the hay to the ground. Get them cooked before they get a chance to get in the ground
I do not actually know. Check out this weed prevention video... ua-cam.com/video/bwgJZA_u6Vo/v-deo.html
Typically, plant seeds do not survive fire. I only know of Lodgepole pine and morels needing fire to reproduce. I don't think any of those will, but morning glory stolons are really deep. I have noxious so bad, I have covered large areas with black plastic sheeting for a few years. Ugly, but solarizes seeds to death and blocks out light should they germinate. Morning glory WILL try to run stolons out from under it, but simply RoundUp those diligently. 😊
Where did u find that propane torch?
amzn.to/3rZd7EX
One i use was 20 bucks at harbor freight a few years ago.
They sell them at Harbor freight for $20 as well
I’m just here for the fire slo-mos! Am I a weeder or a pyro 😅?
🤣 Fire!!! It draws a crowd.
Is good to use this directly in the soil?
Yes
That is exactly how i see leaf-footed bugs and stink bugs 😂😂
I know, right?!!?!
Woah make sure there’s no poison ivy or oak or anything I know someone who passed by this
So sorry to hear that, definitely hope there's no poison ivy in my garden.
I wouldn't recommend this to everyone. You have just burnt 98% of your nitrogen, 91% of your carbon and 61% of your sulfur. and some potash and phosphate (now this is an estimate because I don't know what type of crop residue you had)(Heard et. al., 2001). By burning you just released all that carbon into the atmosphere you could have returned to the soil. We stopped this practice long ago.
Works well for me, results don't lie. You've got to figure out what works for your soil. Be patient with yourself, you'll get figured out and one day you'll turn around and your garden will be rockin'!
I have chickens, I till in their crap after the burn and boom... nitrogen galore, you get potash from the ashes from burning, plus carbon to till back in... phosphate is the harder one to get, unless you work in the fire trade like do and you can get old fire extinguishers to till that powder in, an ABC extinguisher has phosphate and sodium bicarbonate in it.. few other minerals.... good fertilizer.
Things grow better after everything has been burned off.
Nature burned stuff waaayyyy before we had bags of amendments.
I get leaves and pine straw, pile it up about 2 feet deep, 3 ft diameter, burn 95% of it, spray it with the mister on my hose, then chop it up into the soil with a small pick axe. It helps raise my PH to a better level and adds nutrients. Then all summer I mulch with green and dry handfuls of grass clippings and chopped/mowed leaves.
I`m poor, partially disabled, no car, so I have to use what`s around me here in rural Louisiana to amend the soil because I get ripped off over and over trying to order crucial supplies and I think it`s a DELIBERATE WAR AGAINST POOR PEOPLE who try to grow food...for instance...MANURE IS NOW TOXIC TO VEGETABLES. And my soil is horrible because of the previous people living here. I bring soil from the woods in a wagon, dump it in 3 ft diameter piles 4 to 6 inches deep, and to test these small areas I plant various bulk seeds and transplant seedlings from pots or the ruined part of my soil where they`re stunted, then slowly add things until I see growth and health. Now I burn leaves on top before planting.
Ashes are one of the few ways I can add otherwise extremely expensive nutrients. I`m sick and tired of ordering some expensive crap online, waiting 3 weeks, and then it gets lost and they try to say there`s no refund. Try being poor. You will pay ten times what something is worth and you still might never receive it. I need every last item I order or I wouldn`t order it. But each month I order gardening supplies that never arrive and get scammed. Like the grossly overpriced bag of 20-20-20 fertilizer I ordered last month...of COURSE I never received it! Or my FOOD has a shipping delay of three weeks! When you need the sardines you`ve ordered NOW and they trick you you`re SCREWED! And if you`re poor YOU ARE AUTOMATICALLY SCREWED in America! They`ll poison the fertilizer next and say...."Oh well! It was just a mistake but now your garden is ruined!"
I like fire 🔥
Ummm... LOL
I have used fire, vinegar and currently using chickens on a new garden
@@christophera-realone9834 what does vinegar do?
I’ve used it to kill weeds before starting a garden (high acid kind like over 20%) it doesn’t kill Bermuda grass but it helps in getting rid of it
The chickens destroy pretty much everything. Weeds, grass, crops, they did up trees. 😂😂😂