Not so sure this is a good plan as I suspect that the Law of Unintended Consequences might not have been taken into consideration. Weeds in lawns will be killed one way or another. Neighbors won’t put up with a weed infested eyesore of a lawn next door and they certainly will not want weed seeds spreading to their lawn from next door. Weed and feed is pretty gentle stuff. The dose of 2-4-d is small and it doesnt drift to places it isnt wanted. And it mostly does what it was intended to do. Many weeds will not be killed with the traditional effort at digging them out with a knife or some similar tool. The smallest bit of root left behind will resprout the weed making your saturday hunched over in the blistering sun pretty much a waste. So folks will do their best and when the weeds get out of control they will fish around in the garage for the sprayer. Now THAT is scary. Your average homeowner isn’t capable of metering out a correct dose. 2-4-d and its many many relatives are notorious for being extremely volatile when applied as a spray. A gentle breeze can wipe out a vegetable garden a block away. It is said that a healthy lawn is a weed free lawn and that approach is an alternative. To get a lawn thick enough to smother out the weeds you need large applications of fertilizers high in phosporus and potassium. It actually sort of works but all that phosphorus and potassium eventually makes its way into the lake plugging it with rampant algae and weed growth. Overall a bit of weed and feed might be the most appropriate technology. Of course in a few years this isnt really going to be an issue. After we burn out te ozone layer completely we will all be living underground and a lawn will be only a memory.
Lawns are a problem. Back at the old Anchovy World Headquarters, I had completely eliminated any lawn and replaced it with mixed perennial gardens. It’s going to take me quite a while to do that at the new place.
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This might encourage better solutions to lawn care. I hope this is a success.
Not so sure this is a good plan as I suspect that the Law of Unintended Consequences might not have been taken into consideration. Weeds in lawns will be killed one way or another. Neighbors won’t put up with a weed infested eyesore of a lawn next door and they certainly will not want weed seeds spreading to their lawn from next door. Weed and feed is pretty gentle stuff. The dose of 2-4-d is small and it doesnt drift to places it isnt wanted. And it mostly does what it was intended to do. Many weeds will not be killed with the traditional effort at digging them out with a knife or some similar tool. The smallest bit of root left behind will resprout the weed making your saturday hunched over in the blistering sun pretty much a waste. So folks will do their best and when the weeds get out of control they will fish around in the garage for the sprayer. Now THAT is scary. Your average homeowner isn’t capable of metering out a correct dose. 2-4-d and its many many relatives are notorious for being extremely volatile when applied as a spray. A gentle breeze can wipe out a vegetable garden a block away. It is said that a healthy lawn is a weed free lawn and that approach is an alternative. To get a lawn thick enough to smother out the weeds you need large applications of fertilizers high in phosporus and potassium. It actually sort of works but all that phosphorus and potassium eventually makes its way into the lake plugging it with rampant algae and weed growth. Overall a bit of weed and feed might be the most appropriate technology. Of course in a few years this isnt really going to be an issue. After we burn out te ozone layer completely we will all be living underground and a lawn will be only a memory.
Lawns are a problem. Back at the old Anchovy World Headquarters, I had completely eliminated any lawn and replaced it with mixed perennial gardens. It’s going to take me quite a while to do that at the new place.
A good idea but why are they waiting until 2012 for it to take effect? Why not the end of 2011? Or, gasp, 2010?
Now let’s see…that’s 47 years after Rachel Carson’s Silent Spring was published. We might be catching on…