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Roundup to kill daylilies in raspberry patch?
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Tim wrote: Charlie wrote: On Tue, 21 Apr 2009 13:11:48 -0700, Billy wrote: In article , Charlie wrote: On Tue, 21 Apr 2009 11:30:48 -0700, Billy wrote: In article , zxcvbob wrote: Diane Whitney wrote: I've got some old daylilies that keep coming back in my raspberry patch and I don't know what to do about them. I can't dig them out without uprooting all the raspberry canes. Although I've always had an organic garden I'd like to try hitting them with Roundup but I am wondering if it will kill the raspberries as well, since they are both spreading plants and completely intertwined. Get a foam paintbrush and apply a little Roundup concentrate to the daylily leaves with that. Don't get any on the raspberries. I do that with dandelions or perennial grasses that come up in the middle of other plants. There are a few herbicides that will be released in the soil when the affected plant dies and poison the surrounding plants (mostly broadleaf weed killer, I think), but Roundup is not one of 'em. Bob And how much larger are raspberry bushes than day lillies? You poison dandelions? Lord Almighty child, what's wrong with you? Youngsters nowadays...... Why poison daylilies? All parts of the common daylily are edible. http://www.ehow.com/how_4466550_eat-...lis-fulva.html Charlie Santos hermano, if food doesn't come wrapped in plastic with a price tag on it, these young'uns would starve to death. Food and medicine, and they can't see it. "A man may esteem himself happy when that which is his food is also his medicine." -Henry David Thoreau Once again we find wisdom in the truths spoken by the Elders. Is it possible to "uneducate" the masses and instill any common sense in the vacuum that would remain? I see our monsatano rep has shown up in this thread to try and quiet any doubts that may have been sown about poison. He's also going to work on Tim, who appears to be a possible initiate into the dark side. Charlie (two quotes for the price of one today) "Let thy food be thy medicine and thy medicine be thy food."---- Hippocrates (460-377 B.C.) Come on...I didn't even post today, how can I get in poo? Just gifted I suppose. -- - Billy "For the first time in the history of the world, every human being is now subjected to contact with dangerous chemicals, from the moment of conception until death." - Rachel Carson http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WI29wVQN8Go http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/1072040.html |
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Roundup to kill daylilies in raspberry patch?
Billy wrote:
In article , Tim wrote: Charlie wrote: On Tue, 21 Apr 2009 13:11:48 -0700, Billy wrote: In article , Charlie wrote: On Tue, 21 Apr 2009 11:30:48 -0700, Billy wrote: In article , zxcvbob wrote: Diane Whitney wrote: I've got some old daylilies that keep coming back in my raspberry patch and I don't know what to do about them. I can't dig them out without uprooting all the raspberry canes. Although I've always had an organic garden I'd like to try hitting them with Roundup but I am wondering if it will kill the raspberries as well, since they are both spreading plants and completely intertwined. Get a foam paintbrush and apply a little Roundup concentrate to the daylily leaves with that. Don't get any on the raspberries. I do that with dandelions or perennial grasses that come up in the middle of other plants. There are a few herbicides that will be released in the soil when the affected plant dies and poison the surrounding plants (mostly broadleaf weed killer, I think), but Roundup is not one of 'em. Bob And how much larger are raspberry bushes than day lillies? You poison dandelions? Lord Almighty child, what's wrong with you? Youngsters nowadays...... Why poison daylilies? All parts of the common daylily are edible. http://www.ehow.com/how_4466550_eat-...lis-fulva.html Charlie Santos hermano, if food doesn't come wrapped in plastic with a price tag on it, these young'uns would starve to death. Food and medicine, and they can't see it. "A man may esteem himself happy when that which is his food is also his medicine." -Henry David Thoreau Once again we find wisdom in the truths spoken by the Elders. Is it possible to "uneducate" the masses and instill any common sense in the vacuum that would remain? I see our monsatano rep has shown up in this thread to try and quiet any doubts that may have been sown about poison. He's also going to work on Tim, who appears to be a possible initiate into the dark side. Charlie (two quotes for the price of one today) "Let thy food be thy medicine and thy medicine be thy food."---- Hippocrates (460-377 B.C.) Come on...I didn't even post today, how can I get in poo? Just gifted I suppose. lol...Thanks. -- Tim +++++++++++++++++++++++++++ + "Strange days indeed." + + Dr. Winston O'Boogie + +++++++++++++++++++++++++++ |
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