soil sterilisation

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    hello peeps, this is a very technical question does anybody know anything about Hoddeson pipes, apparently there used for soil sterilisation. [​IMG]
     
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    Interesting article that one D. Looks like if you overheat you kill the "goodies" and risk getting even more "baddies".

    Though it didn't seem to worry my grandfather who use a galvanised bucket atop his solid-fuel greenhouse boiler.
     
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