Playing (Carefully!) with Fire: Flame Weeding in a Market Garden

Part 6 of 6:
Grow Appalachia’s Matt Wilson brings out his inner pyro in this video on flame weeding in the market garden.

Grow Appalachia is a program of Berea College. Grow Appalachia partners with families, communities and organizations in Appalachia to create healthy, resilient, and economically viable food systems.

Links:
Videos in the series:
• To Weed or Not to Weed? That Isn’t Really the Question...
• This Ain’t Your Grandma’s Garden Hoe: Cultivating Weeds with Precision Hoes
• Growing Undercover: Using Groundcovers for Weed Control
• Keepin’ it Green: Cover Crops in the Market Garden
• The Dark Side of Market Gardening: Occultation (Tarping)
• Playing (Carefully!) with Fire: Flame Weeding in a Market Garden

Flame weeders:

[joshword]

Why not just use straw or grass clippings instead of walking around with a torch. Just cover the bed where you want it to burn and set it on fire.