Anybody with advice on vegetation killer?

[thistlebloom]

Most would be surprised at the different things I've tried in my garden (and friends fields) because of things I read here-like spraying soybean fields with aspirin-not one of the better ideas.

Yeah, but I bet it cured their headache.

 

[majorcatfish]

hope they had a couple extra for themselves once they found out their corp died..

 

[thistlebloom]

So was it a My Grain problem you were trying to help Seed?

 

[seedcorn]

The theory was that the aspirin would open up the cells ability to transmit nutrients from the roots to the plant. Nice theory, saw no measurable response. Maybe it was those cheap Dollar General generic aspirins.....if I only used Bayer Aspirin....

 

[Beekissed]

Yeah...I used suppression cloth on my rows last year. It was horrible and fell apart at the merest nudge and was equally impossible to take up at the end of the season as it just disintegrated in my hands...weeds everywhere!!! Why didn't I just mulch as per usual? Never get too old to make a dumb move, but that's what comes from trying new things....one always learns something and that's a good thing.

That's why I come to these forums...to learn, to pass along what worked, what didn't, what I haven't tried but read about and intend to try.

 

[Beekissed]

Haha Seed! I love it! You posted while I was typing the following...


Just to add another thought, which you all may or may not agree with...

But I personally would hate to see this forum turn into nothing more than a mutual admiration society, where we all smile and nod and kiss b--- and get all pc about everything.
That would be too smarmy and insipid for me.
A good vigorous (yes and respectful) discussion is like a spring tilling.
It brings up all those good worms and weed seeds to pick over.

Exactly!!!! I agree....debates are fun, arguments are not. I learn something in debates and arguments make me want to run and hide.

 

[thistlebloom]

My problem is retention...if I could remember the ah ha! moments I'd be way ahead of myself.

 

[Beekissed]

The theory was that the aspirin would open up the cells ability to transmit nutrients from the roots to the plant. Nice theory, saw no measurable response. Maybe it was those cheap Dollar General generic aspirins.....if I only used Bayer Aspirin....

I tried that some years back too!!!! And I concur...I saw no appreciable difference...and I, too, used the dollar store aspirin.

 

[bobm]

Has anyone tried " roundup " on weeds instead of aspirin ? I have sprayed roundup on 20 acres of pastures after a few HUNDRED THOUSAND +++ weeds that sprout after seeds being pooped out by thousands of roosting starlings . It seems that hoeing equates to oh my aching back or I would have to hire a hundred illegals to hoe the pastures every 2 weeks for the spring and summer weed growing seasons while the grasses go dormant . Also I would have to from the border patrol. ... and mulching doesn't seem to work on pastures since the pasture grasses don't want to grow as late spring and summer time is when the pasture grasses go dormant , but the weeds say right on ! You see ... every fall the starlings gather in H U G E flocks by the thousands and they land onto the electric wires and trees that sag to the breaking point in the evenings . By morning their poop is breath taking ! Then I have to replant the pastures. And N O ... I am NOT exagerating in the slightest ! I wish that it wasn't so as it is VERY expensive.

 

[Beekissed]

I'm not sure that's a direction that I'd want to go, knowing what they do now about the long term affects of it, for humans, wildlife, food animals and beneficial insects.

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22999595

http://permaculturenews.org/2012/09...ndup-resistant-maize-brings-shocking-results/

http://www.responsibletechnology.org/gmo-dangers/health-risks/reference-health-effects-of-glyphosate
http://www.responsibletechnology.org/gmo-dangers/health-risks/reference-health-effects-of-glyphosate
http://www.biosafety-info.net/article.php?aid=1113