Hot foam and hot water for weed control: A comparison

Thermal weed control plays an important role in managing weeds synthetic herbicide-free systems, particularly organic agriculture and urban areas where herbicides are prohibited. This study compares the impact on of increased doses hot water foam (i.e. 0, 0.67, 1.67, 3.33, 5.00, 6.67 8.33 kg m–2). The were applied using same machine. temperatures, effectiveness, regrowth after death aboveground vegetative tissues, dry biomass 30 days treatments studied two experimental fields with a different composition Site I II). results showed that difficult to control, such as Cynodon dactylon (L.) Pers., Digitaria sanguinalis Scop. Taraxacum officinale Weber, like all other species initial populations experiments, died lower compared water. Adding made it possible required dose by at least 2.5-fold used alone. By insulating weeds, led higher peak temperatures slower temperature decay, thus determining effective Starting from 11 16 (for II, respectively), there no statistically significant differences between applied. There collected when used.