Welcome back to Garden Ninja! Today I've been asked to do a video guide on how to
get rid of stubborn weedss and you'll be pleased to know that this doesn't
involve breaking your back using a trowel using weed killer or anything other
methods that you see online but my methods are going to be quite different
all you're gonna need two key pieces of equipment to get rid of weeds at lightening speed!
But before we do anything you have to put Barry away, it's really not the place
for little puppies is it, no! it's not! So I'm going to put him away and show you exactly
how to get with your weeds. So I'm going to be showing you two methods today in
this quick guide, the first one involves the use of a trusted bin liner cheap and
cheerful with some tent pegs and the second and more fun method uses this a
weed burner! So the first method I'm going to show you is the bin liner and
tent peg left couldn't be simpler and this is a really good method if you're
trying to kill off a load of weeds especially in preparation for a new
flower bed or a new working garden when you want to grow from some veg so if
you've got area like this it's covered in all sorts of weeds rather than
reaching for the roundup the chemicals the vinegar having to manually plop that
on and then wait for to die back all you do is take your bin liner and your tent
pegs and you're gonna pin it over the top of the weeds what that will do is
reduce the light from helping the weeds to photosynthesize it will also reduce
moisture in nutrients and they will slowly but surely die back. It's a really good
environmentally sound method of killing weeds on mass, however, it does take quite a
while anywhere between a month to six months
to fully remove those weeds but if you're a patient soul, which I'm not, it's a
great method but if you're not patient like me then the weed burner is fantastic
method both to get out some catharsis and kill those weeds! Now I've tried all
those homemade remedies for getting rid of weeds vinegar table salt washing up
liquid combination of the three and whilst they do work the results are
quite unpredictable and also who can be bothered faffing around sloshing vinegar
all over your garden and all you want to do is sit out and enjoy it!
So the best method that I found is one of these weed burners now they run on
butane gas the great thing about them is they kill weeds almost instantaneously
and they've got no build-up and no knock-on effect with local environment
so with a weed killer the over time your plants get resistant but with this bad
boy there is zero resistance and it's great fun! So what you need to do is you
buy your weed burner and then you would attach your gas canister to it this one
screws in and they'll be a valve on off to regulate the amount of gas and then a
clicker that ignites it goes without saying wear protective footwear goggles gloves
make sure there's no small puppies running around friends family children
animals and then you good to go and it can be used on paths beds borders pretty
much anywhere and it only targets the weed that you are taking your fury
outside so let's give this a whirl now we turn this on, start it up there we go!
Just over the top until the weeds turn matt colour
same with this one and that's enough to be able to kill these weeds are you still
might use a few passes in a few weeks it's a far more efficient than just
gung-ho approach of 'I'm gonna burn everything to submission' just walk around
slowly doing that to your weeds and then you'll see in a few days they'll start
to just fall over and die back so down here we've got the dreaded weed of all
weeds mares tail and this stuff is incredible, incredible in that it's
really difficult to kill off it goes back hundreds of thousands of years as a
species and is just super resilient so although the weed burner will kill it
you will have to do it a few times what you have to do with mayor's tail is
exhausted the tap roots go down so far so you're basically just burning off
that top layer time to time again until a plant basically gives up and dies but
when you burn it so an excellent tool for this. So there we have it a super speedy
guide of how to kill weeds which doesn't involve using any nasty chemicals mixing
things in the kitchen and spending hours selectively pouring them for bits and
bobs around the garden it's by using a weed burner you can do it really quickly
and there's no buildup so you'll keep using it and the weeds won't get
resistant so I've been Garden Ninja this is been a little Barry the Border Terrier
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come on let's go!