How do I get rid of swarming bees in my yard?
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tonybeeguy
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Comments (3)I agree. Frequent turning and ample amounts of water will deter mice getting in there to have a little snackie and they will not make nests in it if it is too wet for a nice cozy mouse house . If your compost is already "cooked to perfection and done", then bag it up and store it in a trash can with a tight fitting lid for future use, or spread it around in your growing areas and containers. This is what I do....See Morehow do I get rid of my baptisia?
Comments (12)Well, my husband got the baptisia out and said it did not have a tap root but many smaller roots that he just cut through. We shall see what happens next year. Before I read your last 3 comments, we went and bought some russian sage. Now I wonder. It is in a bed surrounded by rudbeckia, echinacea, robert poole phlox, moonbeam coreopsis and shasta daisy. It will have a space that will allow it to branch out to 3-4 ft. and it would be okay to be 4- 4 1/2 ft. tall as the phox is very tall. We live in Pennsylvania and have fairly rich soil, so now I am concerned that we have a plant that will be uncontrollable and that flops. Any consolation? jnfr, when you say it is "killing everything around them", do you mean by the creeping roots? Flopping we can deal with by staking, but killing surrounding plants would be terrible....See MoreFire Ants: How do I know I have them and how do I get rid of them
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Comments (6)It is unfortunate that misinformation continues to be repeated about glyphosate. Denmark has not banned glyphosate, nor have "many European countries". Denmark at one point thought that some of the monitoring they were doing showed that glyphosate could move into agricultural field drainage water in autumn but once they looked at their data and related it to the methodology they used, they enacted no ban whatsoever. As the Danish Environmental Protection Agency specifically stated: http://www.egeis.org/home/main/Evaluation-GlyphosateDEPA.PDF "Against this background, the Danish Environmental Protection Agency believes that no unacceptable risk of pollution of the groundwater is associated with the currently approved agricultural use of glyphosate. The Agency thus does not consider that the updated state of our knowledge provides any technical grounds for the imposition of restrictions on the autumn application of glyphosate." Used properly, glyphosate will not pollute drinking water nor will it have adverse effects on humans. Once applied, it binds tightly to soil particles and is not herbicidally active. If it is applied to hard surfaces such as sidewalks it can move offsite of course. It can also move if there is active soil erosion carrying soil off site. It is of very low toxicity, and breaks down completely into natural constituents over time. It is of equal or lower toxicity than most household products such as detergent, soaps, shampoos, cleaners etc. and far less toxic than some of the "alternatives" often discussed such as bleach, kerosene, high strength vinegars and so on. There is so much misinformation being repeated on the web that it is difficult to get reliable information. This link provides an published overview of the available literature. Regulatory Toxicology and Pharmacology Volume 31, Issue 2, April 2000, Pages 117-165 Safety Evaluation and Risk Assessment of the Herbicide Roundup and Its Active Ingredient, Glyphosate, for Humans http://cat.inist.fr/?aModele=afficheN&cpsidt=1401479...See Morebandit_tx
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