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Free and safe Weed Killer

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  • LynLyn Posts: 23,190
    That’s the way, always listen to your mum or gran. They won’t get that lovely khaki colour if you don’t get them on soon enough. 
    Gardening on the wild, windy west side of Dartmoor. 

  • DovefromaboveDovefromabove Posts: 88,147
    edited September 2018
    And you know that Christmas is coming when that smell of mushy wellboiled sprouts permeates the house in early August ... yum   :p

    Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.





  • LynLyn Posts: 23,190
    🤢🤮
    Gardening on the wild, windy west side of Dartmoor. 

  • mmmm spouts are on christmas cards written and got out all of last year's presents I did not want with there original label so I don't give them back to the person who gave it to me last year  >:)
    "A society grows great when old men plant trees whose shade they know they shall never sit in."
  • Darnit! I've visitors over Christmas and not a sprout bought. Must get onto it!
    @Lyn if I listened to my mother I'd eat them.  Dirty midden!
  • On a more serious note, some weedkiller is made from pyrethrins a chemical derived from chrusanthems? Presumably you might be able to make your own.
  • LynLyn Posts: 23,190
    edited September 2018
    I know nothing about those ingredients,  pyrethrum is a fly killer isn’t it, don’t know what the other one is though.

    Gardening on the wild, windy west side of Dartmoor. 

  • Pyrethrum is used in or use to be in solutions for killing head lice.
    I remember reading that on the bottles we use to get from the chemist for use on the daughters hair when they came home from school with them.
    "A society grows great when old men plant trees whose shade they know they shall never sit in."
  • Kitty 2Kitty 2 Posts: 5,150
    Lyn said:
     Shame on you Kitty, if you haven’t got the Christmas sprouts on by now you may as well forget them, ask your Gran. Sprouts need ages to cook😀
    Haha 😆 @Lyn. I'm afraid it'd be Thumbelina sized portions right now.



    Grannys sprouts, bleugh 😖.  A memory I'd rather forget 😉. Her gravy stuck to your ribs, but was very tasty 😋.
  • Hostafan1Hostafan1 Posts: 34,889
    If you lot can talk about christmas and sprouts, I'm gonna say  BAH HUMBUG.
    Devon.
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