FWIW, I've been trying to use a home made vinegar, salt, dish soap spray for natural weed control on my little patch of land (1/3 acre, mostly gravel). The mix when sprayed on leaves is supposed to be safe, but is is not terribly effective. You can see why people are tempted to use the "good stuff" -- which really is …
FWIW, I've been trying to use a home made vinegar, salt, dish soap spray for natural weed control on my little patch of land (1/3 acre, mostly gravel). The mix when sprayed on leaves is supposed to be safe, but is is not terribly effective. You can see why people are tempted to use the "good stuff" -- which really is VERY BAD stuff.
What's happened to our country and our three-letter agencies is a travesty. Three-letter agencies definitely are four-letter words.
A guy working on my barn told me he used vinegar in his garden to keep away the bugs. I said white or cider. He said apple cider. I asked mixed with water? He said no. I tried it and the leaves on all my 6-7 inches tall turned brown. I do use soapyg water on my apple trees when walnut size fruit emerges. It's a pain and does not do a good job. It certainly won't keep the deer away. Weed control is a whole other story. I mow and weed wack and spray round up under my pasture fences and on my gravel driveway.
I am way too old to walk with a weed wacker around a mile of polywire fencing, with three electrified stands. If the weeds are not managed they grow tall enough to take down the entire fence line and also stop the flow of electricity. We all do what we have to do. My gravel driveway is over a football field in length and there is no way I can keep it from becoming overgrown with weeds and no longer driveable. Goats, llamas are not practicable as my driveway is not enclosed, I would have to feed them 6 months out of the year and my pasture is for my horses. We all do what we have to do. I do not used pesticides. I am open to simple, inexpensive options that I can do myself but as yet II have not found any.
How do we stop this?
FWIW, I've been trying to use a home made vinegar, salt, dish soap spray for natural weed control on my little patch of land (1/3 acre, mostly gravel). The mix when sprayed on leaves is supposed to be safe, but is is not terribly effective. You can see why people are tempted to use the "good stuff" -- which really is VERY BAD stuff.
What's happened to our country and our three-letter agencies is a travesty. Three-letter agencies definitely are four-letter words.
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The regulatory capture of EPA etc. is EXACTLY the same as for agencies that regulate "vaccines." It's literally "Turtles -- or maybe feminized frogs -- All the Way Down" (Book reference: https://childrenshealthdefense.org/store/turtles-all-the-way-down-vaccine-science-and-myth/)
A guy working on my barn told me he used vinegar in his garden to keep away the bugs. I said white or cider. He said apple cider. I asked mixed with water? He said no. I tried it and the leaves on all my 6-7 inches tall turned brown. I do use soapyg water on my apple trees when walnut size fruit emerges. It's a pain and does not do a good job. It certainly won't keep the deer away. Weed control is a whole other story. I mow and weed wack and spray round up under my pasture fences and on my gravel driveway.
To Round Up the healthy way, plus free fertilizer, get a goat!
Or some llamas!
Haven't tried the apple cider vinegar. But the white is starting to work.
FWIW, Roundup (glyphosate) is very toxic, so you may want to try something else (like goats or llamas, mentioned below). More about glyphosate at https://childrenshealthdefense.org/?s=glyphosate&type=all
Big E, Shelly has been told many times about the dangers of glyphosate, it just doesn't seem to sink in or matter.
Sigh...
I am way too old to walk with a weed wacker around a mile of polywire fencing, with three electrified stands. If the weeds are not managed they grow tall enough to take down the entire fence line and also stop the flow of electricity. We all do what we have to do. My gravel driveway is over a football field in length and there is no way I can keep it from becoming overgrown with weeds and no longer driveable. Goats, llamas are not practicable as my driveway is not enclosed, I would have to feed them 6 months out of the year and my pasture is for my horses. We all do what we have to do. I do not used pesticides. I am open to simple, inexpensive options that I can do myself but as yet II have not found any.