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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Okay, totally ignorant here and admitting this up front. I actually live in a different area of the country (Texas), and we're first-time homeowners in terms of a house with a yard (in condos prior).

Our yard is a hot mess - tons of weeds. More than one could ever pull, and extremely ugly. The last owners didn't keep up with it. All of our neighbors have good yards, many seem to use a service. We're planning on having a service come in and spray 8x over the course of the season to try to eradicate the weeds and let the grass grow back.

Other than chemicals = bad, what's the big deal? Does it contaminate the water? They're pretty protective on water here and we haven't received anything saying not to use chemicals on your lawn.

So, follow up, since we don't get a hard freeze down here, you really do have to spray your house for bugs to prevent termites, ants, spiders, scorpions. Our house has the port where you can pump the chemicals through tubes in the walls too, but I've been told by many people in the area you MUST spray externally to prevent problems.

If you live in a bug-prone area, particularly destructive bugs like termites, how are you supposed to deal with them without pesticide?

All genuine questions - I'm open to doing things differently. I honestly had no idea this was an issue for people. [/quote]

You don't have to spray to prevent termites. Treat them only if an inspection finds them. It's a waste of money to treat to prevent.

I had my house sprayed for scorpions and it didn't help. What did work was using a UV light to locate their areas outdoors (one fence and a tree near a rock wall). I sprayed those areas a few nights in a row with with a small bit of poison from a can. Better than having a ring of poison circumventing the house, and spraying the nests directly worked better to keep them from staggering into the house after spraying the exterior.

As for the weeds, you could just mow them down and see if you can deal with how it looks. However it sounds like your neighbors are going to expect you to do the sharper image thing and use Roundup on your property. I haven't heard of the tubes for chemicals in house walls before.

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