Kill weeds with hot water

Your great-grandparents didn’t need Roundup to kill weeds, neither should you.

For more years than I can count, I’ve watched Bonnie put on her “weeding face,” trudge out to the yard and start weeding. 8 hours/week throughout the spring, summer and fall, Bonnie would march off to a war she would never win.

Since the dawn of agriculture, gardeners have had the same enemy - weeds. And until recently the only solution was weeding by hand – a hard, dirty, tedious task.

More recently science has given us toxic herbicides which, although effective, are hazardous to our health and the environment.

Until now there has been no safe, fast, effective means for keeping lawns, gardens, sporting fields, golf courses and municipal parks free of weeds.

We are about to change that. One landscape at a time.

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A CORDLESS, POWERED SPRAYER THAT KILLS WEEDS ORGANICALLY WITH A JET OF BOILING WATER – LITERALLY COOKING THEM IN THE GROUND.

The Zot uses the same method that our grandparents used – boiling water. After making their morning cup of tea, they’d take the hot water out into the garden and pour it out on the weeds.

WHAT MAKES THE ZOT DIFFERENT?

THE ROOT OF THE PROBLEM

Unless you kill the root, the weed will just regrow. Unlike steamers and torches, the heat from the Zot is concentrated at the crown and penetrates below ground killing tissue at the top of the root and making regeneration less likely. No need to lug a fire extinguisher, no need for a cone to cover the weed you’re trying to kill – just point and shoot.

THE APPLICATION ZONE

Steamers and torches leave a large zone of destruction and torches cannot be used around flammable material (dry conifer needles, dry grass, wood chips, etc.) because of the fire danger. The Zot avoids these limitations by using needle-thin jets of scalding water which have a kill zone the size of a dime allowing you to kill the weed without harming the surrounding plants.

EASE OF USE

The newest Zot will be fired by propane and will only require water from a garden hose or a backpack tank and you’re ready to go. The Zot is effective in any season and all weather conditions – hot, cold, dry, wet, or windy and it works equally well with all soil types – clay, sandy, silty, peaty chalky and loamy.

EFFECTIVENESS

The Zot is 100% effective on small to medium size weeds. Weeds taller than one foot can be killed with the Zot but you’ll still have a dead one foot tall weed in your yard. Better to pull it and then shoot it as it tries to return.

* Compare Zot to other weeders with this PDF

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