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Comments (2)Seriously...are you just going to dig up 2-3 articles about your agenda per day to post here? Nevermind this helps no gardener here. What gardener is on this forum wondering whether they should plant organic or GMO soy? NO ONE. You just want to circle-jerk about your Hot Topics worthy let's talk about GMOs and chemical agriculture in an organic forum stuff...especially since you're being called out on it. The worst part is you're ill-advised and have ill knowledge of the subject and crutch on Google to counter any point made when you're not ignoring or dismissing facts brought up by others. Your lack of knowledge about the subject leads you on wild Google chases where you can't tell if something is legit information or even applies to what you think it's talking about. Combine that with your "I must always be right" thing you have going and it creates a disservice to science, common sense, and this board a lot more than it should. Here's your activity in the past year on the Organic Forum...all of it... In Press new research - testing of organic and gmo soybeans abc News - Original Cheerios to Go GMO-Free Recent Oregon M.S. thesis - turkey feed New York Times article - organic wine growing (about pesticides in French wine) abc News - Original Cheerios to Go GMO-Free GMO cancer paper to be retracted New Report about dangers of Round UP Another gmo problem? Major Grocer to Label Foods With Gene-Modified Content GMO advocates lost a round Of bindweed and Roundup Monsanto's Roundup Triggers Over 40 Plant Diseases An interesting article (about glyphosate) Spray damage from neighbors? a good meta-analysis of organic vs conventional outputs Interview on Fox News concerning labeling GMOs Article- Why Honey Bees Are Dying A Scientific Bombshell Dropped This Week Spreading GM wheat Link Between Organic Foods and Autism Horticultural Myths removing transgenes More Helpful Fatty Acids Found in Organic Milk ----- alternatives to pressure-treated wood for raised beds Corn meal vs. southern blight (again) Verticulum Wilt II International Organic Fruit Symposium I separated out the 4 on the bottom because they are actually pertaining to helping others with their gardens even though the "Corn meal" one is just you telling someone else to not trust one of their sources because of something you dug up on Google and the "Verticulum Wilt" one is you defining a "biocontrol" and telling them to use Google searches for more information. You want to talk about agendas now? Propaganda? By the way...Food Chemistry is an Elsevier journal and you signed an online pledge (which you were so proud of you posted it here to show it to us) to boycott them on a website that promotes AIDS denial, the power of water to cure disease, and flu vaccines causing cancer/heart disease/etc...because you want your name on that for some reason. You can't even keep you hypocrisy in check. You should search Google for "hypocrisy" in case you need someone to tell you what it is. This post was edited by nc-crn on Fri, Jan 3, 14 at 20:52...See MoreBeing choked by bindweed
Comments (16)From Heavinsent "After laying all the paper I see that I will have to weed by hand the small gaps around the plants that couldnt be covered (I left about 1/2 an inch to allow for growth)" A little tip from experience. That little area you have to keep clear can be a problem. But if you let the weeds that come up there get tall, then bend them flat Away From the plant, you can cover them with mulch without "weeding" them. Wayne, I'm afraid I'm gonna have to flag you a 15-yard penalty for "Putting words in my mouth," repeatedlly. "You misread or missed my point entirely." I've always found it interesting that people often seem to accuse others of the very thing they do themselves? "I used newspaper as a tool but the roots of bindweed will outlast the useful life of a newspaper mulch." So you add new papers! Mulching is a permanent thing, a "way of life," so you just keep adding new mulch year after year. The bindweed will eventually simply run out of food, and roots and all will die. People have told me they got rid of poison ivy and oak with this method. Bindweed can't be much tougher than those? "The closely spaced plants I mentioned are impossible to "mold" wet newspaper around as you recommend." Well, then use only grass clippings right next to your plants. And see what I wrote to H.S. above. "Mulching does not "permanently eliminate" weeding in these areas. Some pulling is required." Well, then can you explain why the ONLY weeds I've pulled in 34 years are dandelions in my lawn? If you keep doing it, mulching Does permanently eliminate weeding. "In my area, a permanent mulch must be raked off the raised beds early if the soil is to thaw and warm up enough for spring planting. I learned this year that peppers and eggplants can't be mulched too early without cooling the soil and slowing their growth." I've read this before, many times, and it may, I say may, have some merit. But I would like to see someone do an experiment, pull the mulch aside on some plants, but leave it around others of the same kind. I wonder if the mulch keeps the soil warmer enough that things will grow just as well without clearing the area in the spring? I've tried removing the mulch and even putting black plastic down, but it seemed to make little difference. And yes I know I have a very farorable climate. "You've been touting the "no-work" claims of mulching in numerous threads here and admire your tenacity, but I don't think you are looking beyond your own garden gate." Wayne, a simple thing I could say here is, "I wasn't talking to you." I've gotten comments like yours before, on another board. And I've asked them if they can tell me how to talk to ONLY the people that might benefit from mulching, I'd be happy to hear it? Since these are public forums, people post what they believe or have learned from experience. Anyone who can benefit from it, should. Anyone who can't, or doesn't want to, can simply ignore it. My remarks are not directed at any specific person. "But unless they garden in a manner similar to your own very limited set of conditions..." I hardly think that gardeners coast to coast constitute a "very limited set of conditions." I've had gardeners in New Jersey, Alabama. Tennesse, Michigan, the Southwest, as well as right here in California wrtie to tell me they can't beLIEVE the difference mulching has made in their gardens. To me, Wayne, it sounds like you don't want other people to try this? If you think there are problems with it, that's no problem whatever. But you seem to want to stop me from even talking about it? "There is no "no-work" method" Again putting words in my mouth. I never wrote this. Are you familiar with the political tactic called "Setting up straw men?" Everyone has known someone in their lives, out here in the non-cbyer world, that they know they will just never see eye-to-eye with. I already have that feeling about you, Wayne. So a simple suggestion: Ignore my posts. Or don't you give other people enough credit to judge for themselves if what I say works or is nonsense? I was incredibly fortunuate many years ago to learn of the mulch method of gardening, and all its incredible benefits. All I want to do is pass on my good luck to other gardeners. Tyrell...See Moreflagstone in the rock garden
Comments (5)I do have flagstone pavers and steps running through my alpines and the alpines do enjoy the protection over their roots, especially on a hill side. To control your weeds, you may try layers of newspaper tacked down under black garbage bags or tarps to smother out the weeds. Usually this is done in the fall and left over winter but you could try it early this spring. Emerging perennial weeds and sprouting seedlings will all smother under this cover. Even 3 months of it (April - June) should help. Always try to remove any weeds that survive before they set seed. Good luck!!...See MoreWhat's the best way to get rid of bindweed???
Comments (219)I have lots and lots of bindweed all in my pachysandra and have come up with a solution to killing it without killing the pachysandra. I do use round up on the foam spray setting. First I gather up as many strands as I can in one clump andI put in into a slit in paper plate that I have cut one slit to the middle. It opens easily to put the bindweed on the plate . Then I spray it on the plate carefully using the foam setting. When dry I remove the plate and leave the weed for several weeks so it can get dead to the root. I will also try this on creeping Charlie. I have also used canes for the bindweed to crawl up and also tried putting a clump in a Baggie and the spray inside bag with roundup. That works but the paper plate is so much easier.Hope this helps someone else. I feel like I am going to get control after several years and hundreds or thousands of these vines!! lenette...See MoreRelated Professionals
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