JoeSpareBedroom wrote:
Myrl Jeffcoat wrote:
JoeSpareBedroom wrote:
Myrl Jeffcoat wrote:
I think when I purchased my home over two decades ago, I made a large
mistake. I had decided to condition the soil by adding worms. But,
the kind of worms I purchased, were very large Earth Worms. As I sit
here today, those worms, have mulitplied beyond belief. They build
little "dome" like earth mounds throughout my lawn area, and make
walking across the lawn, feel like navigating across a waffle iron.
To add insult to injury, the worms, seem to have attracted a small
polulation of Moles. So, I have treated the lawn 3 times in the last
6 weeks with Ortho Lawn and Pest, trying to get rid of the Earth
Worms, and thus eliminate the food source for the Moles.
Somehow, I think I have this wrong. . .Because the Lawn and Pest
treatment, only seems to be a slight remedy to the problem of getting
rid of the problem. . .I still have tons of worms.
Any ideas?
Myrl Jeffcoat
http://www.myrljeffcoat.com
Wow. I'm curious. That Ortho product came with not only a label, but
probably one which folded out to reveal at least one more "page", maybe
two.
In those instructions, which by law are very specific, did it mention
using
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The Ortho product, mentioned fleas, ants, earwigs, and grubs. . .It
did not mention worms. I guess I was hoping that the worms would be
close enough cousins to the grubs, and take the bait;-)
However, I notice if I go out on the lawn with the hose on high power
stream, I can knock down the little dome things the worms are making,
and sometimes in the process, a few worms will surface, and I will
collect them up, and dispose of them. There is one section of the
lawn, that seems slightly improved because of this process. I also
suspect that the treatment is affecting some of the worms, but
definitely not all of them.
I haven't really seen a product that is "worm" specific.
Good. Please don't do that again, unless you receive a letter signed by
several thousand complete strangers, who say they're OK with drinking the
stuff you treat your lawn with. You have no idea whose water supply the
stuff ends up in eventually. But it does end up somewhere.
something I wrote and posted over in alt.home.lawn.garden last week
and not well received. just wondering how many will I **** off over here?
begin repost:
Those who think fall applications are unnecessary are not thinking
beyond their own yard. A very common mistake in this forum.
KC
something you said here caught my eye,
"not thinking beyond their own yard"
it's a sad sad truth concerning the self centered need
for satisfying ones own desires.
today in america peoples desire for the lush thick mono
turf type green lawn has produced an environmental hazard
just beginning to unfold and tell it's story. current trends
have the 100' by 100' lawn receiving more herbicides, insecticides
and chemical fertilizers than the typical farmer applies to an
acre of land. further contributing to the unfolding disaster
in the making is how neighborhood lawns are totally unregulated
with regard towards runoff which sends these chemicals directly
into the water supply.
"not thinking beyond their own yard"
here in central NC we are experiencing one heck of an on
going drought. water restrictions have been in place now
for several months and just recently tighter restrictions
went into place allowing for lawns to be watered only one
day a week.
an article appearing in today's N&O presented an excellent
exemplification of peoples selfish stupidity when it comes
to "not thinking beyond their own yard".
http://www.newsobserver.com/weather/...ry/695176.html
ok, stepping down from my portable soapbox for a moment lets
give consideration to the aspects of having a nice lawn while
thinking beyond our own yard. first consideration should be
for shared resources such as water. when a drought such as
the one we are experiencing here in NC severely limits the
amount of water available to the local population, priorities
of importance need to be established. a simple question should
be put forth and that is, how long can you the human continue
without water to sustain your body? which is really more
important, water to drink or water to irrigate a lawn?
I full well realize I'm only a simple country boy, semiliterate,
uneducated and therefore hardly qualified to render an answer to
the above stated question concerning the important uses of water when
it's availability is severely limited. but do consider this, after
you've died from dehydration will you be able to visually appreciate
the lust green well irrigated lawn? duh!
the vast majority of lawn owners are totally unaware of the organic
alternatives available today. they instead waddle into the local big
box store and being the quadruple chin porker beast they are see grub
control product and make the purchase without ever reading the label
or seeing the words Merit or Dylox. even worse is how they'll apply
the product without reading the application instructions contained on
the product labeling. how many times in this very forum have we seen
the question, "how much should I apply" followed by Eggs saying "did
you read the label?" and to further exemplify the disaster in the
making we're expecting a population of quadruple chin porker beast
creatures who can't even feed themselves a correct portion to figure
out how to apply 2.5 pounds of product evenly over 100 square feet
of lawn! get real, it just ain't going to happen...
http://www.milkyspore.com/