I want to mourn the loss... of all the old growth... trees I’ve seen.....
“the EPA released a report that also said glyphosate was unlikely to cause cancer.” Well probably except calibfornia where apparently ANYTHING will be “KNOWN TO CAUSE CANCER”. Including drinking out of your garden hose. I currently have on hand 2 and a half gallon jug of glyphosate concentrate to be mixed. Works pretty good. Takes a little longer than I would like on sage brush, like two weeks. We’ve also started trying the 1 gal vinegar/1 cup salt/1 tsp dishwashing soap. Still looking for results after a week but have noticed some of the weeds starting to brown up. As difi would say “Spray and prey.”
The real problem is that glyphosate is losing effectiveness due to natural selection in weeds. This has happened a lot with pesticides and other means of control.
Resistance and immunity happens in all lifeforms, from viruses on up.
And as of yet, there really isn’t a good replacement for glyphosate, without which the world would lose so much food because of weeds that it would likely cause some degree of starvation in places.
Not as bad as if a major pesticide failed, which could wipe out entire crops, but still something to be avoided if possible.
We use it, as do many framers and ranchers around here, to kill invasive weeds in our hay fields and pastures. The weeds can take over a pasture and kill the grass essential for our winter hay and the fresh grass for the cattle to eat the rest of the year.
Screw these outsider "environmentalist" wackos, as Rush calls them, who think of nothing else but sticking their noses into other people's business. Liberals seem to be forever looking for non-existent problems to "fix" so as to meet their political agendas but have little to do with the reality of how the rest of the world operates.
I’ve used RoundUp several times over the years, but I think I like 20% vinegar better. It’s not selective and will kill anything it lands on. Sometimes it takes a second application to kill the roots for sure. You can get it online.
One word...Zoysia.
If you can handle the brown in winter, you will have a Mar-a- Lago putting green yard in the summer. And, it will overrun any weed in your yard. I’ve seen it swallow slow kids.
Heck, if global warming continues, you might even have green grass all year long.
Here is an easy, homemade recipe for weed killer: 1 gallon of white vinegar, 1 cup of table salt, and 1 tablespoon of liquid dish soap. Pour it into a spray bottle and you will have a formidable weed killer. Just be careful to not spray it near any grass or plants that you want to keep because it can be harmful.
“In the US, the EPA released a report that also said glyphosate was unlikely to cause cancer.”
A study from the same people who call the furrows in a farmers field “wetlands”, the same people who see ‘man made climate change’ as the greatest threat to the earth and humanity, who all work in a government agency most here would like to see disbanded.
Personally, I don’t trust anything the EPA says.
http://www.thehealthyhomeeconomist.com/roundup-quick-death-for-weeds-slow-and-painful-death-for-you/
It kills gut bacteria people need for digestion and immune system response.
A good friend of mine, a business owner I work back and forth with for years, went through chemo for Non-Hodgkin Lymphoma a couple of years ago. His family farms the largest amount of acreage in our county, he’s been around Roundup his entire adult life and even though he doesn’t farm he’s helped the family out every spring since he was a kid.
He beat it, but the Dr.s all told him it was really rare to get this at his age. He researched it more and if you dig deep enough you can find that Monsanto hasn’t been exactly truthful in their claim that the stuff is so safe you could drink it. There is a class action suit starting up from all the farmers and their kids who have developed cancer who coincidentally were in prolonged exposure to the stuff. I’m on the fence because I really don’t know enough to make a firm decision, but billions and billions of dollars can make for some creative test results, if you don’t think that then just look at global warming and how that worked out for them.
Round Up isn’t a weed killer. It kills every damned thing. Especially grass when you grab it instead of the Weed-B-Gone.
So, are these tree-huggers volunteering to remove weeds and unwanted vegetation from my yard for FREE?
There are too many neurotoxins in our bodies. This is one of them. Everything we eat, touch, and breathe reaches our bloodstream and has the potential to do damage to our brains.
There is an epidemic of babies born with neurological issues from mild to severe. There is an epidemic of older people coming down with beurodegenerstive diseases including Parkinson’s and Alzheimer’s. WE ARE DOING SOME THINGS WRONG and we need to examine and change our practices of every substance that causes neurological damage.
A lot of these products and their marketing are SINISTER.
Round up is one: genetically modifying seeds and plants to withstand huge amounts of it to make growing easier, but then humans will eat those plants laden with glyphosate and from soils contaminated.
Problem is that the public doesn’t understand that when we eat plants grown in a soil, we eat that soil. The plant is made from it and we end up being made from that plant. If it just made people vomit after eating, NO ONE WOULD TOUCH IT. But it doesn’t; it adds to the cumulative neurotoxicity inside us and brings slow, long term sequelae like poisoning your uterus, helping your next baby have brain issues, or causing your later years to be mired in heart wrenching difficulty.
Shades of DDT. Perhaps we’ve grown up a little since then.
Glyphosate is designed to attack a specific plant hormone, so if you are a plant too bad, otherwise just don’t drink it - wash it off immediately if comes in contact with the skin - like any concentrate it can cause mild burns. Properly mixed in the correct proportions per the product label, this is not a problem.
Most effective is the liquid Round Up Pro Max - 7/8ths oz to gal. Is expensive and not available for home use (60% coverage - 100% dead) Also has surfactant in it - sticks to slick plants like cattails and Solomon Seal. Round Up Quik Pro is a powder and it sucks - takes forever to kill. Most of the home Glyphosate products are weak compared to the commercial varieties. If not dead in a week something is not right with the mixture.
I’m not a fan of using chemicals around my victory garden, but when I need to kill weeds in other places around my property I give no quarter.
Glyphosate concentrate combined with 2-4-D both mixed 2x label direction into diesel fuel.
Dead. Dead. Dead.