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[–] tyler@programming.dev 1 point 2 months ago (2 children)

Which two particular things? Organic farms use propane because they have to burn the weeds, they can’t do it any other way.

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[–] Sheldan@lemmy.world 4 points 2 months ago (1 child)

There are other ways, in general.

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[–] tyler@programming.dev 1 point 2 months ago

What other ways?

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[–] jafra@slrpnk.net 2 points 2 months ago

Propane isn't the problem, at least here in germany. I used burning weeds only for some irrelevant cosmetic weed control.

But preparing the soil was done with a small 2cycles mortiser.

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