"Cycle of spraying/weeding"

[Anonymous]

I have read that spray herbicide begets a cycle of more weeds/more spraying. Why would this be?

[Anonymous]

It destroys the microbiome in the soil. Healthy soil makes healthy plants. Poor soil makes weeds.

[Anonymous]

Same as pharmaceuticals in humans btw. The healthiest people don’t take medications. Once you start, it’s usually all downhill from there.

[Anonymous]

Prior owners of our house used a chemical lawn service. We didn't. It took five years for the lawn to cycle through every pest and disease it was susceptible to in its weak, chemical-dependent state. It literally went through withdrawal.

We kept feeding it compost and improving the soil with aeration, reseeding with more appropriate grass, etc. It recovered and became a healthy lawn that barely even needed to be watered. Of course, since then we have eliminated much of the lawn with a more diverse garden.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:It destroys the microbiome in the soil. Healthy soil makes healthy plants. Poor soil makes weeds.

But people are using it to spray weeds to begin with.

can you enrich the soil after using it? I have a few really bad weeds (predominantly goutweed) that only respond to chemicals.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Prior owners of our house used a chemical lawn service. We didn't. It took five years for the lawn to cycle through every pest and disease it was susceptible to in its weak, chemical-dependent state. It literally went through withdrawal.

We kept feeding it compost and improving the soil with aeration, reseeding with more appropriate grass, etc. It recovered and became a healthy lawn that barely even needed to be watered. Of course, since then we have eliminated much of the lawn with a more diverse garden.

How did you get rid of the weeds?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:It destroys the microbiome in the soil. Healthy soil makes healthy plants. Poor soil makes weeds.

LMAO ridiculous. "Weeds" lmao. Think about that for a bit.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I have read that spray herbicide begets a cycle of more weeds/more spraying. Why would this be?

It's not, that's just one of those myths dumb people come up with, probably due to laziness and allowing undesirable plants to invade after spraying.

If you spray the desirable plants as well when spraying the "weeds" then you kill off the more desirable, and often slower growing plants, which if you don't stay on top of the situation, the "weeds" take over as they grow faster than the desirable plants.

It's funny how humans have chosen the weaker plants, like most yard grasses, roses, flowers, etc. as desirable, and the hearty tough invasive plants are considered undesirable and called "weeds" due to that. But it is what it is.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I have read that spray herbicide begets a cycle of more weeds/more spraying. Why would this be?

It's not, that's just one of those myths dumb people come up with, probably due to laziness and allowing undesirable plants to invade after spraying.

If you spray the desirable plants as well when spraying the "weeds" then you kill off the more desirable, and often slower growing plants, which if you don't stay on top of the situation, the "weeds" take over as they grow faster than the desirable plants.

It's funny how humans have chosen the weaker plants, like most yard grasses, roses, flowers, etc. as desirable, and the hearty tough invasive plants are considered undesirable and called "weeds" due to that. But it is what it is.

Okay this makes sense.

[Anonymous]

SO if my entire lawn is weeds, can i effectively start over by residing, or will the same weeds come up through the new grass?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Same as pharmaceuticals in humans btw. The healthiest people don’t take medications. Once you start, it’s usually all downhill from there.

This isn’t true.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Same as pharmaceuticals in humans btw. The healthiest people don’t take medications. Once you start, it’s usually all downhill from there.

Time for you to get off TikTok

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Prior owners of our house used a chemical lawn service. We didn't. It took five years for the lawn to cycle through every pest and disease it was susceptible to in its weak, chemical-dependent state. It literally went through withdrawal.

We kept feeding it compost and improving the soil with aeration, reseeding with more appropriate grass, etc. It recovered and became a healthy lawn that barely even needed to be watered. Of course, since then we have eliminated much of the lawn with a more diverse garden.

How did you get rid of the weeds?

Deprive them if light.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:SO if my entire lawn is weeds, can i effectively start over by residing, or will the same weeds come up through the new grass?

They coexist. Monoculture in nature is unnatural and so requires extreme measures to produce and maintain. Your best hope is to plant densely so that the weeds are crowded out and then to hand remove any weeds that make it through. Other than that, you are essentially making yourself the greenskeeper of a golf course.

A lawn that is only one type of grass with nothing else growing there does not exist anywhere in the nature unless a human being has done something extreme to make it happen. Nature creates a constantly transforming meadow of plants and life.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Prior owners of our house used a chemical lawn service. We didn't. It took five years for the lawn to cycle through every pest and disease it was susceptible to in its weak, chemical-dependent state. It literally went through withdrawal.

We kept feeding it compost and improving the soil with aeration, reseeding with more appropriate grass, etc. It recovered and became a healthy lawn that barely even needed to be watered. Of course, since then we have eliminated much of the lawn with a more diverse garden.

How did you get rid of the weeds?

What weeds?