Two of my neighbours object to the use of glyphosate. Can I tell them I have bought the special organic version - it's made of organophosphorus :-)
There again, in seven days time I could just tell them it must have been the drought that killed the weeds.
You could just spray some fertiliser I bought from the Pound Shop. God knows what's in it, but it kills everything it touches.
Why tell them anything.
The object to your own use of it?
What is their beef? I'd have thought if you were careful and did it on a still day then hardly anything but your stuff would be affected unless they have some kind of prize plant whose roots are on soil, in which case leave that part untreated. Brian
It's an approved weedkiller. Just tell them to f*ck off.
Soil contact inactivates it.
Keep away from ponds. The surfactants bugger up wildlife.
It's a mutual garden where no-one shows much enthusiasm for gardening.
Chemicals into the environment.
Tell them you used strong vinegar. It can actually be reasonably effective on some weeds, and you could splash a bit around to give the smell to make it more convincing.
Using weedkiller is DIY gardening.
Just dropped 25 litres of the stuff on the roots of a tree in a neighbours garden.
Ecover.
Copper nail knocked in does the trick Adam :)
Andrew
What a waste! Glyphosate is rapidly adsorbed by clay in soil and has to hit green plant material to cause any significant damage.
Holly, ivy and buttercups seem to shrug it off too.
Why are you using it on the garden? Is this selective by area, or over the whole plot? (It might not be the right product for the task.)
Really, you all need to get together and decide what you want to do with the garden, and who does which bits of the work. If there's a large area of weeds to be cleared, you can volunteer to do it with glyphosate, and they might instead offer to do it with a cultivator (or get a "man" in), in which case you could accept that alternative as it gets you off the hook for that. What is the intended use of that area afterwards? Who is going to prepare it? Who is going to maintain it? Do you collectively have a mower? (Perhaps you all need to chip in for one.)
Invite them to a meeting, and those who show up and offer to do the work get to decide. As a shared garden, you probably don't have the right to use any chemicals on it without their approval.
Nope
AJH
Fallacy Tested with 10x 4inch copper nails into base of sycamore 5 years ago and it still lives
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Not if you mix it with paraffin instead of water. Use very sparingly and paint onto leaves.
Reminds me of a dovoce lawyer.
"What you need to do is sit down and negortiate a settlement"
"If It had ever been possible to sit down and negotiate a settlement there would be no divorce...."
Leave the weeds to grow then ;-)
I was talking of mass application to kill rough ground. Even the smallest holly and ivy seedlings just shrug it off and are left alive.
Indeed ... I could write a book about it.
Three absentee landlords. One owner unfit to carry out gardening. One nervous about going into the rear garden on her own. One hardly ever seen and listens to music on headphones. One hates gardening. Person on the ground floor can't stand the person on the first floor. Person on the second floor supports the person on the first floor. Person on the second floor thinks everyone is incompetent. I tend to agree with that viewpoint. Nearly everyone pleads shortage of money. One seems to view maintenance as a bourgois conspiracy.
We have roof repairs outstanding but no agreement to carry out the work. I have sent a 'project fear' letter pointing out that any future damage is highly unlikely to be met by insurers. I do not want to open a second front on gardening.
My aim is a 'cheap and cheerful' fix without consent to make the rear garden more presentable and to preserve the opportunity to sell without having to explain the state of the garden. To that end I plan to obliterate the weeds and plant some form of robust ground cover plants. This is a 'metre margin'. The grass can stay where it is.
Reminds me of a conveyancing lawyer: "At least in a divorce the parties want an end-point. With a neighbour dispute parties are more determined and there is less incentive to settle. These disputes are usually only resolved when one party moves."
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