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La Puce wrote:
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Glyphosate is the active killing ingredient in numerous proprietary
pesticides that British amateur gardeners keep bying for their nice
green lawn which includes:- ROUNDUP, EAZY WEEDER, SLAM grass and
weed killer, ZERO weed spray and wand, COMKILL, SQUADRON, TILLMASTER,
TUMBLEWEED, etc. as explained to Judith a couple of days ago. (source
Paula).

This is complete and utter ********. Only the terminally stupid would
apply glyphosate to a lawn. Grass is exquisitely sensitive to the
effects of glyphosate at a level where if you walk over a lawn with
boots that are wet with glyphosate overspray every footfall will show
in outline of dead grass (or worse if you had it on the soles of the
boots).

Broadleaf specific lawn weedkillers are much nastier than glyphosate
but are just about acceptable for spot weeding. I cringe everytime I
see that blasted animated frog/hedgehog/ladybird dance around on the
chemically greened lawn advert.

We are getting almost as bad as the Merkins - a land where "TruGreen
ChemLawn" is a product franchise brandname and a *selling* point. I
kid you not.

Don't buy these products. Full stop.

If you must use a chemical weedkiller then glyphosate is about as safe
as you can reasonbly get. All I would ask is that you buy generic and
not the Monsanto product.

Almost everything else is more dangerous. Even grubbing the weeds out
manually by hand risks catching tetanus from the soil. And burning
them OrganicallyTM) will produce dangerous dioxins (shock! horror!).
There is no free lunch.

A voice of sanity, thank heavens.

It's probably a lot more eco-unfriendly to use a computer, given the
resources used up in their manufacture and the pollution caused by
subsequent disposal, than to spot treat a few hardcore weeds with
glyphosate when needs must. It's interesting how many of the Anti All
Manmade Chemicals Regardless brigade still maintain internet
connections.

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Sue