[muawiyah]

We've been having drought conditions in Northern Virginia. My lawn, which is a crumpled up amalgam of every plant that blows in on the wind, is still green. My neighbors finely manicured lawns are brown ~ you can see even the rhyzomes are dying back. Their trees are dropping leaves.

The difference is: Ta-ta-taa-daaaa ~ I never use insecticides. That way the giant fungus's that live under ground and suck sugar from oak and maple trees in the area are never injured. They continue to pump sugar and water to and fro ~ I don't think they have positive control on the osmotic pressure, but that's what they do.

My trees are green. My weeds are lush. The grass is bolting in the heat.

BTW, Roundup is not the problem ~ it doesn't kill the fungi ~ just certain broadleaf plants that'd take over and leave my lawn in patches of dirt and stuff.

All scientific!

[Neoliberalnot]

Roundup is not the problem ~ it doesn’t kill the fungi ~ just certain broadleaf plants that’d take over and leave my lawn in patches of dirt and stuff.””

Small correction: Roundup is a burn-down herbicide, that is, it is non-specific in targeting weeds, it kills them all, except for some emerging resistant ones. It will kill your grass too, unless you have round-up resistant varieties. 2,4-D is a broadleaf herbicide.