![]() ![]() Unless you are dealing with some real powerhouses of weeds (not many around), that is all it takes- just a quick squirt. Psst, psst, psst over every weed I didn’t want. Anyway, so I just started giving the weeds a little “psst” of spray. I went to the house and got a bucket of water and poured over the flower, to wash the spray off, and it is doing just fine. As a matter of fact, just the other day I hit a plant that I didn’t mean to spray. I was spraying the plants I didn’t want there, in between the flowers that I did want. I was actually in the middle of a flower bed. I thought, “I wonder if I just lightly spray it, will it work?”. I thought, “If they get away with that little, why am I soaking this plant down until it is dripping?”. One day I thought to myself, “when a farmer uses this, they run across the field pretty fast and they barely leave a mist on each plant”. If you put on the amount you are supposed to, they “Will be DEAD!”. It doesn’t do their name any good to sell a product that doesn’t work. ![]() Trust me, chemical companies want it to work also. Know what you are going after and use the correct product. Guess what that does to grasses? NOTHING!!! You can spray until you are blue in the face, it ain’t workin. They were spraying it on a combination of grasses and broadleaves. The person was using a broadleaf herbicide. First, there are basically three kinds of herbicides- ones that are effective on broadleaves, ones for grasses, and ones that are “non-selective”. One- read the label (for a number of reasons). So, Roundup is bad, but putting 10x the amount of herbicide needed on an area is ok? (And not the right spray for the job either) I have had the exact same conversation with other people, and I would be remiss if I didn’t share at least a couple of comments on this topic. The response was, “But I want it DEAD (GONE)!!!”. He informs them that the amount that they had already used probably could have done an entire field, not the little, tiny area that they had covered. He asks to see what they are using, and how much. As he is asking about what they are doing, they tell him that “at least it is not Roundup!!!”. They do this maybe 3-4 times before he decides he needs to go talk to this person. As he was working his field one day, he witnesses his neighbor come out with their sprayer, fill it, go spray “weeds”, and come back to refill. ![]() For this person, sprays in general can be used, but Roundup is (insert your worst verb or pronoun here). Is it media or facts? I don’t know, and it is not the reason for the article. ![]() He has a neighbor that is anti-Roundup to the max. He needs a license to use them, he has to go through training, and he knows any herbicide he is using as well as anyone can. He tries to be as conscientious as he can be with what he is using. He has neighbors that have various opinions on sprays. His story went like this: He is a farmer and he uses herbicides. It reminded me of a couple stories that I had that were very similar. At the end of the meeting, one of the attendees came up to me and had a story about a neighbor spraying their “weeds”. We had a meeting at the Fire Hall a couple weeks ago where we talked about no till gardening, stormwater control, rain barrels, rain gardens, pollinators, and the like. ![]()
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