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Re:Efficacy of hot water on weeds



I do NOT use hot water directly on weeds, although I see no reason why
it would not work.  I use boiling hot water mixed with Tabasco or other
hot pepper sauces on fire ant mounds.  The ants have not returned to my
property for 7 years.

The only drawback is that boiling hot water sterilizes the soil and
kills the vegetation in that particular area.

Still, I would rather have sterilized soil than poisoned soil,
groundwater, and a poisoned environmment.  

Susan Snow