Hi DLG, I should introduce you to my mum. You could take patience management classes together.
Glyphosphate is a treatment, not a magic potion. I understand only too well that at the first glink of sunshine you want the nasties to be gone and the pretties to be pretty. Gardening is a bit of a waiting game.
Bob's advice is sound. Treat everything......wait.....WAIT.......and then treat the reoffenders! Meanwhile, plant your lovelies and tend to them while you're.....that's right....waiting. It'll be worth it. Good luck and be sure to post your progress.
If you want to go organic, use a mix of white vinegar (1 gallon), liquid dishwashing soap (1 tablespoon), 1 cup of table salt). Put mix into a garden sprayer, and douse the weeds. The soap will act as a surfactant and help to soak the weeds better. It may day 2/3 days longer to see the effect, but the weeds will die. Any that don't immediately, repeat the dose. Much safer than Glyphosate in my view and you don't need to exclude children or pets from the garden whilst doing it. Glyphosate has been considered a potential carcinogenic chemical, so I don't use it. Obviously lots of people do use it and come to no obvious ill effect but I'd rather reduce my odds.
Oh for goodness sake. He's probably concreted by now. I hate this new format! I thought "latest posts" would mean latest posts. Silly me! I wonder whatever happened...????
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Hi DLG, I should introduce you to my mum. You could take patience management classes together.
Glyphosphate is a treatment, not a magic potion. I understand only too well that at the first glink of sunshine you want the nasties to be gone and the pretties to be pretty. Gardening is a bit of a waiting game.
Bob's advice is sound. Treat everything......wait.....WAIT.......and then treat the reoffenders! Meanwhile, plant your lovelies and tend to them while you're.....that's right....waiting. It'll be worth it. Good luck and be sure to post your progress.
Hopefully Davylovesgravy isn't still waiting for the glyphosate to work - he treated his weeds in 2013
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
??? dovefromabove, thanks for starting my day off with a chuckle!
If you want to go organic, use a mix of white vinegar (1 gallon), liquid dishwashing soap (1 tablespoon), 1 cup of table salt). Put mix into a garden sprayer, and douse the weeds. The soap will act as a surfactant and help to soak the weeds better. It may day 2/3 days longer to see the effect, but the weeds will die. Any that don't immediately, repeat the dose. Much safer than Glyphosate in my view and you don't need to exclude children or pets from the garden whilst doing it. Glyphosate has been considered a potential carcinogenic chemical, so I don't use it. Obviously lots of people do use it and come to no obvious ill effect but I'd rather reduce my odds.
Oh for goodness sake. He's probably concreted by now. I hate this new format! I thought "latest posts" would mean latest posts. Silly me! I wonder whatever happened...????
Hey - easy! Its still relevant advice!! Other people might find it useful, and its still relevant today. Lots of people still have weeds!!
Not me!
No weeds here. Move along....nothing to see.. Those big yella things in the lawn? Gonna be finch food any day now.