Spring has arrived and many people are thinking about their lawns. My
friend Nancy (hi Nancy!) was asking me about corn gluten, so I did a bit
of research on it. It looks like useful stuff for controlling new weed
growth, according to sites like this
one. Weeds that are already established require something different.
Two organic post emergence pesticides that seem to be popular around the
net are Burnout and Weed-Aside, both described here.
Even these killers don’t necessarily deal with perennial weeds, however.
This further piqued my interest in how to deal with really entrenched
weeds. this
page has a nice discussion of how perennial grass weeds work. It
brings up the fact that some weeds are very hard to deal with unless you
use a systemic weed killer- basically something that doesn’t just kill the
top part of the plant, but that gets sucked into the plant and kills the
roots as well. It seems that an organic systemic weed killer is a bit of a
holy grail in organic gardening circles.
posted at 16:57 on Sun, 01 Apr, 2007 |
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