Someone beat me to this so please pull this post. THX
“Since the introduction of Roundup Ready® crops in 1996 and the dramatic decrease in its price, glyphosate has been widely used for both burndown and in-crop weed control. This significantly increased the number of acres where glyphosate is used (see Figure 1) and greatly increased the potential for selecting glyphosate-resistant weeds.”
www.extension.purdue.edu/extmedia/gwc/gwc-1.pdf
Oops!
I’m guessing the herbicide “diversity” plan in place in the typical yards of suburbia is { crickets, cricket, crickets }
We control weeds in our yards by pulling them and feeding them to our chickens.
Crap. I’d better load up on GroundClear and 2,4D.
Last year, my HOA imposed weed-free rules on our lawns and gardens... We’re all on well water, and our lot sizes go from 1.5 to 6 acres, with woods on half or less. I don’t want Agent Orange, Round-up or any of their little cousins in my drinking, cleaning and bathing water. The HOA rules are being revised, not because of the EPA or DNR or any county intervention. Common sense prevailed for once.
Garden hoses by the way, unless specified as Lead Free, leach off more lead than any plumbing fitting or faucet does.
Unless you want to become another Flint-like or medical statistic, start to at least use common sense when pretending to be a chemical engineer your lawns and gardens.
“1 gal vinegar/1 cup salt/1 tsp dishwashing soap”
I use this formula, with Epsom Salts rather than plain salt, and it works great! I know exactly what I am spraying all over my property and have no need to put my faith or my dollars in Monsanto, or Dow, or some other crony capitalist globalist corporation.
If it’s that bad,spray them with it so they wither and go away.
Roundup is bad stuff.
This is really an indirect attack on genetically modified crops. The most common genetic modification in use is the one that makes food crops resistant to Roundup.