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Talkback: To spray, or not to spray?
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My concern with glyphosate spraying is with chemical drift. The neighbors behind my garden sprayed weed killer on weeds in the turf. Some of it drifted over to my garden and damaged a conifer. It took years for the poor plant to recover. So I have to come down against spraying the stuff. I do use it on weed tree stumps and Bindweed by dabbing it on.
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I don't use weedkillers, but now that the neighbours' cats have realised that the driveway is mostly full of edible weeds, and they're running the risk of being run over and glyphosate is becoming tempting..
I have found that it is possible to compost perennial weeds successfully if you keep them in a black polythene sack for a time or even a bucket with no holes; they give up the ghost after a while especially in dry weather and it seems a pity to waste the humus.
I too think 'mostly organic' is good enough. I don't use insectices or fungicides outside, but I have inherited vast tracts (well, a lot) of ground elder, bindweed and couch grass in my new garden. I've dug where I want the ground quickly but you won't get rid of bindweed by digging. I once (when my back was stronger) dug down to find how deep bindweed roots go. I gave up at about 4 feet. The bindweed kept going.