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Janet · 28-02-2012, 03:10 PM posted to uk.rec.gardening

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Janet wrote in
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Gary Woods wrote in
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Baz wrote:

So the cardboard helps the Glyphosate?

No, the cardboard smothers whatever the glyphosphate didn't kill.
If you don't want the agent orange approach, run over the whole
thing with a good strong mower, then mulch heavily with cardboard,
dead leaves, anything that makes a barrier and will rot. If you do
this in the fall, a rotovator will finish the job in the spring.
Also a good way to convert useless sod into useful veg garden! (Am
I the only one who finds the garden space creeps into the lawn?)

Thought so!
Are you in the UK?
I think not.

So what? Being located in the UK is not a requirement. His advice
above
is perfectly relevent to UK gardeners.

If you give advice from another country, or even continent,
you should say so.

He does, every time. Try reading the post.

The USA has very different climate changes from us in
the UK.

Gary Woods has been posting good (and UK-relevant) gardening advice
to
urg for many many years.

Janet.

OK, Janet

Don't get all snotty about this.

You were the person getting snotty.. for no reason. A) that Gary is a
longtimne urger and B) the advice he gave has also been offered (many
times) by UK posters here, including me. That you have no recall of
either, reflects entirely upon yourself.

Advice from a non UK poster COULD prompt a new gardener from the UK to take
advice from the wrong person, hence uk.rec.gardening.

But you are NOT a new gardener, are you? So you don't have that excuse;
neither do you have any excuse to "protect" new gardeners from Gary's
advice which was relevant for the UK.

I suggest you re-read the charter of this group.

"posters from around the globe will be welcome to participate in or
initiate discussion of UK-relevant topics. "

And, the weekly abc to newcomers post.

"Contributors from outside the British Isles are not discouraged but,
because this newsgroup is intended to help gardeners in the British
Isles, it should be remembered that all questions and answers should
relate to a climate similar to that found in the British Isles"

Gary was fully compliant with both.

In my thoughts any advice from any other continent other than the UK ought
to be considered as very wrong, thus inappropiate.

You're overlooking that overseas posters may be uk expats, or just, well
informed about UK gardening issues.

There is a group(within your reader.MicroPlanet-Gravity/3.0.4)
usa.rec.gardening. But I am sure you will not give your conservative views
there.

Another fantasy misconception on your part.
The only thing "conservative" in my usenet posting history to gardening
groups, is to conserve natural soil structure and recycle resources.
That's as relevent to gardeners in the USA as it is here.

Janet