There's just so much misinformation and daily mail headlines guiding the masses.
Chemicals are an absolutely essential tool to keep living costs down and public and private outdoor spaces looking nice. I wouldn't spray near food because there's an element of the unknown. Precautionary Principle and so forth. Gardeners that advertise wholly organic methods don't look after large commercial sites. They do domestic gardens. If I speak to prospective clients and they mention they don't want chemicals used I offer my thanks for their call but I won't be able to help them... it's not worth my time when I could be making several times the rate elsewhere!
I admit to using Glyphosphate from time to time, although less and less as the years go by and tend to prefer the sticky paste.
It worries me glasgowdan, that as your only aim seems to be making as much money from your clientele as possible, you will inevitably do anything to make the job quicker.
I am disturbed that some posters don't believe there is any evidence that Glyphosphate is bad for health, I can only imagine that some very selective reading has been done.
How can you lie there and think of England When you don't even know who's in the team
It worries me glasgowdan, that as your only aim seems to be making as much money from your clientele as possible, you will inevitably do anything to make the job quicker.
Why are you worried? I'm a proud man and gardens are kept in perfect condition. I wouldn't have a solid client base including many from the year I started 8 years ago otherwise. I also have a waiting list of people wishing my services should any existing jobs end and free up my time. But you're going off on a tangent. And I'm having to defend myself because some householders on here can't accept that the vast majority of contractors are like me and use whatever is at their disposal to run a successful business.
I agree with Punkdoc & Quill, I have always operated on a use as little as I can get away with especially pesticides. As I have said in another post I would rather not use them at all but sometimes it makes the difference between getting a usable crop or getting nothing.
What worries me, is that there is a big difference between using something because it is safe and using something because it helps you to run a thriving buisness.
Both are possible, but in this case most would agree that the product is not safe, but it does help you run your buisness.
How can you lie there and think of England When you don't even know who's in the team
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Every year chemicals are removed, my local council no longer sprays glyphosate on road verges and uses a sweeper to clear the area.
its the water chain that suffers through leaching where the chemical enters the water basin. Often missed by many through over use.
we are a society that thrives on chemicals from garden to house hold cleaning agents. Often they are the quick easy route that people want.
not an easy subject and one that often creates hostilities sadly.
There's just so much misinformation and daily mail headlines guiding the masses.
Chemicals are an absolutely essential tool to keep living costs down and public and private outdoor spaces looking nice. I wouldn't spray near food because there's an element of the unknown. Precautionary Principle and so forth. Gardeners that advertise wholly organic methods don't look after large commercial sites. They do domestic gardens. If I speak to prospective clients and they mention they don't want chemicals used I offer my thanks for their call but I won't be able to help them... it's not worth my time when I could be making several times the rate elsewhere!
I admit to using Glyphosphate from time to time, although less and less as the years go by and tend to prefer the sticky paste.
It worries me glasgowdan, that as your only aim seems to be making as much money from your clientele as possible, you will inevitably do anything to make the job quicker.
I am disturbed that some posters don't believe there is any evidence that Glyphosphate is bad for health, I can only imagine that some very selective reading has been done.
When you don't even know who's in the team
S.Yorkshire/Derbyshire border
Why are you worried? I'm a proud man and gardens are kept in perfect condition. I wouldn't have a solid client base including many from the year I started 8 years ago otherwise. I also have a waiting list of people wishing my services should any existing jobs end and free up my time. But you're going off on a tangent. And I'm having to defend myself because some householders on here can't accept that the vast majority of contractors are like me and use whatever is at their disposal to run a successful business.
I agree with Punkdoc & Quill, I have always operated on a use as little as I can get away with especially pesticides. As I have said in another post I would rather not use them at all but sometimes it makes the difference between getting a usable crop or getting nothing.
What worries me, is that there is a big difference between using something because it is safe and using something because it helps you to run a thriving buisness.
Both are possible, but in this case most would agree that the product is not safe, but it does help you run your buisness.
When you don't even know who's in the team
S.Yorkshire/Derbyshire border