Bindweed is evil and I think sometimes its roots must go for miles. I cannot imagine turnips killing it. Still it might make a great cover crop and prevent further spread of some of these weeds.

With rare exceptions, ants are not a pest that needs to be eliminated, they are excellent for your conditioning and aerating soil. Fire ants are something most people don't want in their gardens, but they aren't harmful to plants. Holes in the leaves could be many things. If tiny holes, probably flea beetles. They are self limiting and usually don't so much harm and are pretty much gone by this time of year. Big holes could be a number of things; a picture would help. There are a number of worms that will destroy garden plants; Bt applications, like Dipel, are specific to caterpillars and won't harm anything else.

Years ago we discharged the patients with the oral liquid antibiotic instructing the correct dose and how often and what to do if you skipped a dose or the child vomited. About 70 percent of the time the moms would call saying they did not have enough medicine . On each dose they gave just a little more .Each bottle only held the maximum dose to be given over the ten or 14 day requirement.They ran out on day 8 or 9. This is no different when using garlic or other natural things to rid the animals of worms. People tend to overdose!!!!! I use garlic on my dogs and plan to do this with the chickens. I do not dose any dog who weighs less then 20 pounds with garlic. I actually rotate them on and off the garlic . The mosquitoes leave them alone. I also test for heart worm and have been negative for 8 years. The key to any effective medical program is observation. You titrate the dose and watch to see if it is efficacious. As I see it Ivermectin and garlic are both toxic and you need to be vigilant . Just cause one dog tolerated the interceptor or ivermectin does not mean every dog can use it. I have had goldens who go ataxia on heartgard so we went on interceptor. I prefer the garlic due to the price and effectiveness. When we lived in Europe we did not use heart worm medicine. when we moved to California they placed the aussie on ivertmectin . I told them she was drooling, ataxia and out of it..... They insisted I keep giving her the heartworm med. " yes she had the gene> Why is lipitor bad for women? Some women can not tolerate this med. It is no different with canines With any drug or food each living organism processes it differently. YOu are not tossing treats to your pet when you give the monthly heartworm medicine. Just as you check your face in the morning, You all need to do a health check on the animals. I told my neighbor that I have two packs of coyotes . He said it is unnecessary to take his cat in. Just as the neighbor thinks there is no harm to the cat others do as they please with drugs and overdose. They think a little more won't hurt. I use black walnut. I use it sparingly. The dose is drops NOT an entire dropperful. I use garlic and this too is used in small doses and rotated. When people ask what the dose is I tell them to use the interceptor or heartgard. I do a tick check after each outing. It takes a minute to do each dog. I only posted cause some know what they are doing in using black walnut and garlic. I just found worms in my free range chickens. I can give piperazine or ACV or garlic. THe piperazine will mean to toss their eggs . Apple cider vinegar will be placed in their water. I will sprinkle garlic powder on their feed as soon as I know how much to give. OK descending from my soap box

If there are fleas and yes 60 acres is pretty much impossible and would be ridiculously expensive to try and keep fleas out of, they will reinfest with tapes. I would definitely use the iverhart it should still prevent the tapeworms as long as you can treat them this time. I think that'd be the best bet. Not sure about the cats but at least treating a cat is cheap, not like 100+lb dog If there's fleas in the yard, and animals with tape, it just takes eating a flea to get it, so a preventative just seems like the easiest way to go about it. Maybe a coat spray as well to help keep the bugs off, i do that with mine, and there are recipes online but I use lavender and mint EO mixed with water, heavily diluted to keep bugs off, sprayed on or sprayed on a towel and rubbed on. Sorry I don't know anything to treat tapes, most natural things i know of that would treat an animal are low doses of things that are toxic. maybe look into acv, coconut oil, ascorbic acid. All 3 of those can be given to a dog and all are used to treat human parasites naturally so they may help. This post was edited by Marinewifenc on Tue, Jun 11, 13 at 20:50