No more weed killer...

[GMGuy]

Originally Posted By: yeti
bluestream -- golf courses and farmers (from what i've read) can still use these banned chemicals,yet residential use is verboten. it's o.k. to use on your food crops, but unsafe for your lawns. what a joke.it


Agreed, and lets not forget that if you pay some lawn service they are allowed to spray the "evil" chemicals on your lawn.

Alex.

 

[Samilcar]

Sounds like business will be booming for the lawn care services then. I wonder if this will have the unintended effect of having MORE of the chemicals being sprayed.

 

[Warstud]

Is it to late to apply corn-gluten to control weeds?

 

[crinkles]

i need something to slow the grass growth. biggest PITA of where I live. you just can't keep up. I really resent lawns.

 

[jcwit]

Lets bring Agent Orange back for the homer owner!

 

[Silk]

My lawn is nearly all weeds, and I'm ok with that - they are green...and they grow. The last couple of years the kikuyu has decided to invade, and that stuff is almost impossible to get rid of...burning it off works.

Normally late summer and early autumn the grass browns off and only seed heads need mowing, but this year summer has been wet and I'm mowing the lawn every week.

 

[Merkava_4]

You people in Canada have any Bermuda grass growing up there?

 

[Turk]

Originally Posted By: greenaccord02
Heck, no. I have a garage full of horrible, unspeakable chemicals and a whole wal-mart isle full just waiting for me to run out.

Same here!!

 

[Pop_Rivit]

I just purchased a gallon of concentrate weed/grass killer to do our fence line. It's available here without an issue.

For the lawn there are plenty of natural ways to keep it healthy and nearly weed-free without a lot of chemicals, especially when our lawn is measured in acres. It just takes a little common sense and some research.

 

[Kestas]

My aunt from Canada (Unionville, Ont) was visiting, and was very envious of all the chemicals we have available for weed control. She was trying to think of some way to bring some back home.

 

[Cutehumor]

this is like when the government took phosphates out of dishwasher detergent for the environment. now my dishes have a white film/spots on them. just buy the stuff online. it's legal for businesses. why not the public?

 

[andrewg]

Originally Posted By: CivicFan
Originally Posted By: Bluestream
I went to buy some weed killer for my lawn today and found that it is no longer offered for sale. No Killex, no Weed-B-Gone, and no Weed N Feed, no nothing but natural weed killer like "corn gluton".

Any one else running into this where they live?


In Indiana we are having issues with the herbicides contaminating the drinking supplies. children conceived during the June/July months have a higher chances of developmental issues.

The biggest reason for the contamination is the runoff from the corn fields where things like Roundup are used to kill anything but the genetically modified corn which is resistant to Roundup.

But residential lawns are a source of herbicide/pesticide runoff into the water supplies. But we are not a very progressive state so the health issues will continue until something is done federally.

So for you, being 'progressive' (political, isn't it?) equals a healthier populace?

 

[Jarlaxle]

The only thing I use is crabgrass killer...and a few squirts of RoundUp on the stuff growing through the seams in the walkway & driveway.

 

[Shannow]

Originally Posted By: andrewg
Originally Posted By: CivicFan
Originally Posted By: Bluestream
I went to buy some weed killer for my lawn today and found that it is no longer offered for sale. No Killex, no Weed-B-Gone, and no Weed N Feed, no nothing but natural weed killer like "corn gluton".

Any one else running into this where they live?


In Indiana we are having issues with the herbicides contaminating the drinking supplies. children conceived during the June/July months have a higher chances of developmental issues.

The biggest reason for the contamination is the runoff from the corn fields where things like Roundup are used to kill anything but the genetically modified corn which is resistant to Roundup.

But residential lawns are a source of herbicide/pesticide runoff into the water supplies. But we are not a very progressive state so the health issues will continue until something is done federally.

So for you, being 'progressive' (political, isn't it?) equals a healthier populace?


I took it as a "less poisoned" populace...there's a difference.

 

[kschachn]

Originally Posted By: IndyIan
striving for the perfect lawn with pesticides, herbicides, and chemical fertilizers is an environmental disaster...


Oh please.

 

[kschachn]

Originally Posted By: Cutehumor
this is like when the government took phosphates out of dishwasher detergent for the environment. now my dishes have a white film/spots on them. just buy the stuff online. it's legal for businesses. why not the public?


There are ways around that particular problem.

 

[kschachn]

Originally Posted By: Warstud
Is it to late to apply corn-gluten to control weeds?


Just wait, then we will hear how gluten is bad for the grass...

 

[Papa Bear]

Originally Posted By: yeti
bluestream -- golf courses and farmers (from what i've read) can still use these banned chemicals,yet residential use is verboten. it's o.k. to use on your food crops, but unsafe for your lawns. what a joke.it "appears" that the treehuggers made a deal with the hypocritical "rule makers" on this issue.
a non-selective, roundup type substitute that works well is to spray straight pickling vinegar.


Yeah, BlueStream, get to know your local golf course greenskeeper of a farmer.
I stocked up before the ban so I'm good to go for a while.

 

[Papa Bear]

Kestas said "My aunt from Canada (Unionville, Ont) was visiting, and was very envious of all the chemicals we have available for weed control. She was trying to think of some way to bring some back home."


Put the Killex in Meister Brau GIQ bottles ......

 

[andrewg]

Originally Posted By: Shannow
Originally Posted By: andrewg
So for you, being 'progressive' (political, isn't it?) equals a healthier populace?


I took it as a "less poisoned" populace...there's a difference.

I really just wanted to understand in what context the term 'progressive' was being used and what the opposing viewpoint was to be called. It's a bit of my sarcasm being tossed in for sure....but I feel it needed to be addressed.