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"SteveB" wrote in message
... "brooklyn1" wrote in message ... "Dioclese" NONE wrote in message news "brooklyn1" wrote in message ... "zxcvbob" wrote in message ... brooklyn1 wrote: I don't believe SteveB has a 2 acre garden, in fact I don't believe he has any size garden or has ever had any garden, and probably once he wakes up from his beer fogged trailer trash dream and realizes what gardening is about he will never have a garden... no one who has a 2 acre garden (that's a farm, folks) would ever ask such questions about killing grass and weeds with Roundup defolient... a person could feed a family of four with veggies from the market for two years for the price of enough Roundup to treat 2 acres. A person can easily feed a family of four (and two other families of four) veggies all year from a 1/16 acre garden and not pay a cent for any chemicals whatsoever... Steve couldn't afford to treat a 2 acre garden with H2O. When I read of people with their claims of 4 1/2 acre and 2 acre gardens (none have ever posted a photo) I seriously wonder if folks here have any concept of what's an acre of garden. He never said he had a 2 acre garden. He said he has 2+ acres and uses Roundup, and he's getting ready to put in a garden. He certainly did refer to his 2 acre garden... why would someone mention 2 acres in reference to a garden when they are putting in say a 10' X 10' plot?!?!? Actually he did say he already has a garden, a "weedy" garden _"My garden is weedy. I'm tilling it and preparing it to plant. Yeah, yeah, yeah, I waited a long time, I know."_ He led folks to believe he has a 2 acre garden that is all weedy and he was asking if it was okay to get rid of the weeds in his garden with Roundup... it is quite clear that his intent was to lead folks to believe he has a weedy 2 acre garden. Had he truly wanted suggestion about how to weed his garden (which many offered) an honest person would have said right from the gitgo what size area (he said 2 acres), otherwise no one could offer help except some generalizations and mostly wild speculation. Just like the last person who boasted that she had a 4 1/2 acre garden but when I asked her to post pictures of her garden she didn't deny it but instead posted pictures of all sorts of things but none of any garden (probably a neighbor's property). People on usenet are smarmy, they make all sorts of wildly exaggerated claims and tell down right lies... very few are who they say they are. Many of the pictures folks post are not of their garden and/or not of anything they themselves did. It's easy to post a picture of someone elses garden, or some landscaper was paid to do and then claim they did it, and cameras are very portable so anyone can take a shot of a garden across town, and it's very easy to lift an image off the net... when someone posts a pictures of fully cropped flowers I wonder where they stole those images. You made your point when talking about smaller acreage and affordibility of Roundup vs. feeding the family. I don't digress. You did just waste your "breath" though on a point that is really moot from the prior replying poster. Sheesh, who made you sole arbiter of what peeps post... your responding to my post added nothing, whereas yours and you are the total waste... and obviously you haven't a clue what "digress" means or is your use germaine, you just inserted the tired overused word self-servingly in hopes of elevating yourself to a position of importance and superiority, not. I'm positive you don't have a garden either, never did, never will.... what an insignicant pinhead your momma bred. And it sounds like you're a pimple faced idiot with little real world experience. Either join in the conversation or STFU. On second thought, you haven't written anything yet I consider worth reading, so, it's to the compost pile with you. bubye Steve Now, now. Ya'll settle down. I should have not acted as newsgroup policeman. Rather, I should have allowed Brooklyn1 to see what I'm talking about on his/her own. In retrospect, it was not polite. It may have been embarassing to him/her to expose that folly. I would expect so by my observation his/her subsequent reply's substance. I should have left well enough alone. My apologies to him/her. I'm a "him" if you choose to address me by the way. -- Dave |
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"Dioclese" NONE wrote in message Again, the original subject was Bermuda grass. Not your generic "weed". If you don't get the vast majority of the roots out of the soil, you might as well thrown handfuls of Bermuda grass seed. On a similar subject, does anyone know how to make Bermuda grass GROW? We've tried planting it in our front and back yards several times now (having given up hope with less-aggressive grasses), and we STILL can't get it to grow. We water it, and it grows okay, and then the sun shines and kills it all, until there's nothing left but bare ground (not even tufts of dead grass). People here are talking about how it is impossible to get Bermuda grass to stop growing, but I wonder how much of a start it needs to get to the point where it is impervious to everything! --S. |
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"Billy" wrote in message news:wildbilly-9AF373.11035224052009@c-61- "Mulching will get rid of most weeds, but Bermuda grass and its allies and bindweed will come up through any mulch, sooner or later, except for 6 overlapping layers of cardboard, covered well beyond the grass border by heavy black plastic, maintained for at least a year." I've got a serious bindweed problem myself, but after a few years of cardboard, the shoots that make it through are much smaller and more easily removed. I think the cardboard just stresses it out after a while. Either that or, since the ground is covered, the bindweed is no longer needed to protect it. One thing I noticed, though, when I had thick tangles of bindweed in between my raised wooden beds in my first year of gardening, is that they were FULL of spiders. I'd step into a patch and a dozen spiders would start crawling up my leg. And I had NO bug problems that year. So maybe it's worth having around for some reasons! --S. |
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On Sun, 24 May 2009 16:25:53 -0600, "Suzanne D."
wrote: "Dioclese" NONE wrote in message Again, the original subject was Bermuda grass. Not your generic "weed". If you don't get the vast majority of the roots out of the soil, you might as well thrown handfuls of Bermuda grass seed. On a similar subject, does anyone know how to make Bermuda grass GROW? We've tried planting it in our front and back yards several times now (having given up hope with less-aggressive grasses), and we STILL can't get it to grow. We water it, and it grows okay, and then the sun shines and kills it all, until there's nothing left but bare ground (not even tufts of dead grass). People here are talking about how it is impossible to get Bermuda grass to stop growing, but I wonder how much of a start it needs to get to the point where it is impervious to everything! --S. I've always started it from sod rather than seed, I prefer the hybrid varieties. It seems to like a lot of water, at least until it gets its roots down deep, then mine can go all summer without watering. |
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On Sun, 24 May 2009 16:25:53 -0600, against all advice, something
compelled "Suzanne D." , to say: On a similar subject, does anyone know how to make Bermuda grass GROW? Apparently, it does best under three feet of Roundup treated concrete. -- Don't worry about people stealing an idea. If it's original, you will have to ram it down their throats. - Howard Aiken |
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"Billy" wrote Looks like you can prep for next year, but this year looks like you have your work cut-out for you. Basically you nailed it. Too bad you ended the entertainment of intellectual masturbation by the impotent. When I have owned gardens in the past, I noticed that they do improve every year if you work at them. Steve |
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"Suzanne D." wrote: "Billy" wrote in message news:wildbilly-9AF373.11035224052009@c-61- "Mulching will get rid of most weeds, but Bermuda grass and its allies and bindweed will come up through any mulch, sooner or later, except for 6 overlapping layers of cardboard, covered well beyond the grass border by heavy black plastic, maintained for at least a year." I've got a serious bindweed problem myself, but after a few years of cardboard, the shoots that make it through are much smaller and more easily removed. I think the cardboard just stresses it out after a while. Either that or, since the ground is covered, the bindweed is no longer needed to protect it. Yeah, bindweed and Bermuda grass have chlorophyll and need sun light to survive. If you live where it gets hot in the summer, black plastic blocks out the sun as well as holds in the heat. ". . . since the ground is covered, the bindweed is no longer needed to protect it." Huh? One thing I noticed, though, when I had thick tangles of bindweed in between my raised wooden beds in my first year of gardening, is that they were FULL of spiders. I'd step into a patch and a dozen spiders would start crawling up my leg. And I had NO bug problems that year. So maybe it's worth having around for some reasons! --S. -- - 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=En2TzBE0lp4 http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/1050688.html |
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"Steve Daniels" wrote in message ... On Sun, 24 May 2009 16:25:53 -0600, against all advice, something compelled "Suzanne D." , to say: On a similar subject, does anyone know how to make Bermuda grass GROW? Apparently, it does best under three feet of Roundup treated concrete. I've been pulling weeds in my front yard which used to be a "lawn" but is now a corn field. I've been only removing weeds and leaving the odd tufts of grass to grow, but maybe if I start pulling the grass too and trying to get rid of it, it will take over the whole yard. But then, I'd be stuck with a lawn instead of a corn field, so... --S. |
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"Billy" wrote in message ... In article , "Suzanne D." wrote: ". . . since the ground is covered, the bindweed is no longer needed to protect it." Huh? Bindweed and other weeds grow when the earth is exposed. It's nature's way of keeping the earth covered and protected. Before I started using cover crops to cover the bare earth, the bindweed took that job. --S. |
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"Suzanne D." wrote in message
... "Dioclese" NONE wrote in message Again, the original subject was Bermuda grass. Not your generic "weed". If you don't get the vast majority of the roots out of the soil, you might as well thrown handfuls of Bermuda grass seed. On a similar subject, does anyone know how to make Bermuda grass GROW? Cover it with cardboard, asphalt or concrete. :-) |
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"Billy" wrote in message
... In article , "Dioclese" NONE wrote: Even the newsgroup website link pointer fanatic is confused here. I don't need to be characterized by a flange head. Don't you ever get anything right? When I post a cite, it says there are at least other people who support a position. When you give your opinions, you are all alone. -- - Billy Something to do when you're not spending hours and days desperately searching for someone to agree with you on the internet. http://www.dailyfreegames.com/games/...s-can-fly.html -- Dave |
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On May 23, 4:25*pm, "brooklyn1" wrote:
Killing the weeds by smothering or with chemicals is a total waste of time, labor, and money... there is NO labor free gardening. * A good deep rototilling will dispatch any weeds/grass so that those will never grow again... and NEW weeds are inevitable forever. Tilling brings up dormant weed seeds, such as bindweed, which then sprout and give you tsouris for the rest of the year. Only effective remedy short of 2-4D is constant mowing to starve the weeds of sunlight-derived sugars. What are you doing to maintain good, well-drained tilth? I've been preparing my garden for planting for two days now, I hope to finish tomorrow and I plan to plant this weekend. *Gardening is always work, a lot of work. |
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"Suzanne D." wrote in message ... "Dioclese" NONE wrote in message Again, the original subject was Bermuda grass. Not your generic "weed". If you don't get the vast majority of the roots out of the soil, you might as well thrown handfuls of Bermuda grass seed. On a similar subject, does anyone know how to make Bermuda grass GROW? We've tried planting it in our front and back yards several times now (having given up hope with less-aggressive grasses), and we STILL can't get it to grow. We water it, and it grows okay, and then the sun shines and kills it all, until there's nothing left but bare ground (not even tufts of dead grass). People here are talking about how it is impossible to get Bermuda grass to stop growing, but I wonder how much of a start it needs to get to the point where it is impervious to everything! --S. I'd have to go along with Victoria's reply on chinch bugs. I've also concluded by observation that ants attack grass root systems when extreme drought conditions occur. At least that was my observation last summer on a fire ant colony in the front yard that was basically hidden for a time. Bermuda grass seed germinates just like any other seed. Needs alot of moisture for a time for that to occur. If you insist on a Bermuda strain, go with the Sahara variety that tolerates drought well. I apologize for those who are using your post as rider for their ridicule. -- Dave |
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"Frank" wrote:
What are you doing to maintain good, well-drained tilth? Hey Frankie, what's with the gay lingo... you wanna tilth get back in your closet... sheesh! |
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"Dioclese" NONE wrote: "Suzanne D." wrote in message ... "Dioclese" NONE wrote in message Again, the original subject was Bermuda grass. Not your generic "weed". If you don't get the vast majority of the roots out of the soil, you might as well thrown handfuls of Bermuda grass seed. On a similar subject, does anyone know how to make Bermuda grass GROW? We've tried planting it in our front and back yards several times now (having given up hope with less-aggressive grasses), and we STILL can't get it to grow. We water it, and it grows okay, and then the sun shines and kills it all, until there's nothing left but bare ground (not even tufts of dead grass). People here are talking about how it is impossible to get Bermuda grass to stop growing, but I wonder how much of a start it needs to get to the point where it is impervious to everything! --S. I'd have to go along with Victoria's reply on chinch bugs. I've also concluded by observation that ants attack grass root systems when extreme drought conditions occur. At least that was my observation last summer on a fire ant colony in the front yard that was basically hidden for a time. Bermuda grass seed germinates just like any other seed. Needs alot of moisture for a time for that to occur. If you insist on a Bermuda strain, go with the Sahara variety that tolerates drought well. I apologize for those who are using your post as rider for their ridicule. Sniff, sniff. Do I smell burning martyr? IIRC Steve was the OP on "Roundup questions". -- - 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=En2TzBE0lp4 http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/1050688.html |
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