Our Flower Gardens #32: Lost in the Wild!

hoes and cement just don’t go well together. LOL.

I just lift them up and flick them into the bush below. Lots of bugs there for them.

-- jroot

Round up is systemic so you can apply it judiciously with a pad of cotton wearing rubbr gloves on the bind weed and other plants that spread by root extension, (rhizomes).
Of course you can pull and pull and pull and pull and pull and get nearly the same result for a couple of days. <g>

-- I want to believe in a lot of things but, in the meantime I have to deal with the truth

Bob: bind weed doesn’t care about Roundup… it just laughs.. evil weed, I say.. evil weed.

Jroot: that means I would have to get even CLOSER to the thing.. and I’m not “flicking” anything… I’ve tried flicking weeds off my hoe and they’ve come back at me .. no no no.. ain’t going to happen!

-- - Debbie, SW Ontario Canada (USDA Hardiness Zone: 5a) http://www.execulink.com/~yohan

1.http://forums.gardenweb.com/forums/load/weeds/msg0817390323130.html

2.http://www.ksda.gov/plant_protection/content/181/cid/889

3.http://www.gardenerscorner.org/subject014533.htm

4.http://www.gardenbanter.co.uk/showthread.php?p=586377

5.http://www.ext.colostate.edu/ptlk/2104.html

6.http://www.epinions.com/review/Roundup_Brush_Killer_Concentrate/content_184862084740
etc. etc.
p.s. there is a herbicide with RU and triclopyr together that is very effective on this morning glory stuff and poison ivy as well as kudzu.
Talk to your brother about it.

Don’t be discouraged Deb – get even!

Follow the application instuctions very carefully. That’s where most people fail to get the result they want.
pps. snakes keep the mice out of your pant legs. ;-)

Bob

-- I want to believe in a lot of things but, in the meantime I have to deal with the truth

snakes keep the mice out of your pant legs—yah, cause they wrap around your leg!!!

as for timing: Yes, my brother said “hit it when it is in flower”.. I did… the weed laughed.

-- - Debbie, SW Ontario Canada (USDA Hardiness Zone: 5a) http://www.execulink.com/~yohan

Debbie, unless that snake was a rattler ( do you get Massasauga’s there?), it would cheerfully be your friend. They are one of the nicest critters possible to share your garden space with, since they eat small critters who would love to eat your garden.

-- the day you quit learning is the day you quit living.

When I was kid in Ontario I had a snake as a pet (Garter type)
It used to crawl into bed with me at night.
Gave my Mother frightmares.

They don’t do much damage even if they do bite you.

Snapping turtles are another story.

-- I want to believe in a lot of things but, in the meantime I have to deal with the truth

Deb: Think of how giant you must appear to the snake from down on the ground! Maybe you were chopping weeds in his home! Sounds like a garter snake-they eat mice and rats, etc. Mother Nature sends one creature to rid you of others. Loved your part about the hoe and the cement! That was so cute! Can’t get out of hoeing by wrecking the hoe! Sounds like your yard is getting party-ready! It will resemble a finely-manicured park by the time that you have the picnic/bbq? Don’t fret-he wasn’t laughing-he was wondering what on earth you were doing in the grass! Are you wearing boots? You might feel a bit safer. Keep us informed!

“finely manicured”??? hahahaha lol lol hohohoh lol :)
that will never happen.

-- - Debbie, SW Ontario Canada (USDA Hardiness Zone: 5a) http://www.execulink.com/~yohan

You poor thing … but I have to admit, your story did give me a good chuckle … but I am with you on this one … EWWWWWWW!!! And the snake would have sent me running too!!!!

-- "A beautiful garden is a work of heart" -- Royal Oak, MI - Zone 5

I don’t think MsD is into pesticides plus Ontario has them banned. So MsD what eats snakes? With the biodiversity in your garden I’m sure a new critter will come along ;) lol

-- Xploreorganics, 5b Canada, LFD 06-20

It’s a herbicide Judy.

-- I want to believe in a lot of things but, in the meantime I have to deal with the truth

One of my dogs would eat the snakes, if I let them get at them. I have snakes living in the spaces between the large rocks in my garden. They’re garter snakes, so I am ok with them though they enjoy popping out of nowhere and startling me. Then again, I have had scorpions crawl into my sandals and I lived through it (that ought to make you all shudder!).

-- Zone 4a or 4b... depending on where you are standing!

now that’s an EWWWWWWWWWWWW
“ALMOST” makes the snake not so bad—almost.

-- - Debbie, SW Ontario Canada (USDA Hardiness Zone: 5a) http://www.execulink.com/~yohan

Pesticide = Insecticide, fungicide, herbicide …Knowledge dear man…knowledge

“A chemical applied to crops, rights of way, lawns, or residences to control weeds, insects, fungi, nematodes, rodents or other “pests.”

I’m also glad to help people educate themselves <vbg>

Time to call in the neighbors dog MsD!

-- Xploreorganics, 5b Canada, LFD 06-20

I knew what you meant by the “icide”

I think I’ve heard this story before.. bring in a predator to get rid of a pest and then I’ll need another predator to get rid of the other one.. and then I’ll need another predator…. and before long, what do I have in my yard? Sabre-tooth tigers or something.

-- - Debbie, SW Ontario Canada (USDA Hardiness Zone: 5a) http://www.execulink.com/~yohan

Exactly! Funny how nature works.

-- Xploreorganics, 5b Canada, LFD 06-20

A society of sheep must in time beget a government of wolves.

It is clear that the degradation of the position of the scientist as an independent thinker to that of a morally irresponsible stooge in a science factory has proceeded more rapidly and devastatingly than I expected.

-- I want to believe in a lot of things but, in the meantime I have to deal with the truth

lol good one Bob

-- - Debbie, SW Ontario Canada (USDA Hardiness Zone: 5a) http://www.execulink.com/~yohan

I slogged through my backyard today to see how many plants were underwater and I noticed a garter snake curled around the branches of a young tree. It is so wet here this summer, even our snakes are going for high ground! I appreciate our snakes. They eat the destructive rodents who cause me such trouble. I caught one up for my son this spring and it peed on me. My son had a great laugh over that.

-- Robin, Massachusetts - "Live simply so others can simply live." M. Gandhi

oh no.. now I have to look “up”??? :)

that’s funny re: your son witnessing the christening

-- - Debbie, SW Ontario Canada (USDA Hardiness Zone: 5a) http://www.execulink.com/~yohan

As I sit here shuddering just thinking of snakes.(lol)

-- Bon,Hastings,Ont.....zone 5a....Always room for one more

power to the snakes!! As long as I don’t have to know they are there.

-- - Debbie, SW Ontario Canada (USDA Hardiness Zone: 5a) http://www.execulink.com/~yohan