Horticultural vinegar is not selective, and it will kill many things (some things take repeated applications if you’re trying to kill them). It’s just insanely strong vinegar. Regular white vinegar is 5% acidity, hort vinegar can be 45% acidity. And I LOVE creeping charlie. I love the smell, I love the purple flowers (so do the bees!). But they are invasive. https://hort.extension.wisc.edu/articles/creeping-charlie/ |
I have creeping Charlie too and while it’s insanely good at getting everywhere, I like the smell when I pull it and it’s not that hard to keep it in check. I find it’s perfectly mowable. |
How do you keep weeds out of the pea gravel? I have weeks growing in my gravel. |
you could try plastic bags underneath. |
Round Up is lethal and not good for humans either |
Not hard to keep in check? When mixed in with your grass? I can pull it out of our flower beds easy enough but IME it is not easy to just randomly pull out of the lawn once it's everywhere. If you don't get all of the plant, it just grows back. The smell aggravates my allergies to no end! |
THis is at all proven. Other than the fact that it is lethal to weeds. |
Is anyone really using round-up extensively on their lawns? I mean, it kills everything. We keep a bottle on hand for spot use- e.g., the occasional bit of poison ivy, or to treat the porclainberry stems that are growing up through the fence and impossible to pull out. I'm way more concerned about the proliferation of round-up use in agriculture than the occasional homeowner use. But then again maybe I'm not understanding how other homeowners use it. |
why is anyone still driving around in fuel powered cars or using fuel powered cooking items to cook their food?
The exhaustf gets into the air, soil, drinking water.. Why are cities. schools. companies.private home owners still use them? The environmental cost is unbelievable. This is not 50s! In the climate and enwironment awarness this is unacceptable!!! |
Landscaping companies do. I have a large yard and pay a company to help with weeding. Despite putting it in the contract that they are not to use roundoup, one company in particular sprayed so much, we could smell it throughout our house. It poisoned everything. |
Round Up is illegal in most countries. Not the U.S., because Monsato. |
+1 The whole "perfect appearance" idea has been taken to new levels, and people that use Round Up and herbicides are too stupid or selfish to care. Kardashians gone awry. |
I bet you try this same whataboutism over on the gun threads when there’s a mass shooting. Chemicals have their place; I would use Roundup on poison ivy. But the attempt to grow perfectly green, monoculture lawns using any and all chemicals is pointless. No one gets anything out of it, and the only person allowed to play on the perfect lawn is the pudgy white man who is obsessed with it. It’s an absolutely pointless use of chemicals that harms the environment and the people living in it. |
Pesticides are 100% proven link to Parkinsons Disease, at a minimum, and likely many more neurologic disorders.
Id rather a lawn of clover then watch others die the way my mom did. |
That's awful. I hope they paid to replace all of your plants! |