Glyphosate and neighbours

[The Natural Philosopher]

Sadly untrue.

[Scott]

Sorry, person on the first floor thinks the others are incompetent. I tend to agree.

[Huge]

It's not entirely fallacious. The people who owned this house before us mounted a tap on a cherry tree using brass screws and that was making the tree rather poorly. Admittedly, it wasn't dying.

[Peter Parry]

Go and buy a small bottle of Dirt Company approved organic non functioning insecticide. Pour contents away, refill with Glyphosate. When neighbour asks what you are doing wave bottle of greeny approved glop and point at soil approved label.

[pamela]

Agreeing on how to deal with a shared garden is a nightmare. There sometimes seems to be more opinions than parties involved.

Surely there is an obligation on the parties to pay costs incurred by their representative or by the management company?

[Huge]

*Everything* is "chemicals". Even the pint of glop inside your head that you are apparently not using for anything.

*applause*

[Tim Lamb]

In message , Peter Parry writes

There are products other than Glyphosate if this all that frightens them.

Grazon will sort the scrub and weeds leaving established grass alone. Professional use and you should have PA1 PA2 certificates for knapsack work.

>

[Scott]

Yes, but we are 'self-factored' meaning the building is managed by the residents, who at the last meeting split 4-4 on the vote. This was for roof repairs where some thought the first bidder was too cheap and others thought the second bidder was too expensive. We therefore did not have the five votes needed for a decision.

[Scott]

I believe they are all glyphosate anyway.

Bring back sodium chlorate. I remember using it at my previous place and within two hours it looked as though the place had been napalmed.

[Scott]

This is similar to my original idea of saying organophosphate is the special organic form containing no chemicals :-)

[Harry Bloomfield]

Scott pretended :

You could always write a rude word in the grass, with weed killer. Best done when all are in bed.

[pamela]

Is this done through a limited company or is it arranged as a sort of club? There surely must be some agreed process when a split vote occurs.

I've seen such an arrangement come a cropper when provisions were made for a unofficial sinking fund.

[Scott]

It's in Scotland so regulated by the Tenement Management Scheme in the Tenements (Scotland) Act 2004:

Yes, I'm a bit nervous about funds held by our Residents' Association. I prefer to sideline the RA and convene as a statutory meeting, but the others (apart from one solicitor) see this as purely academic.

[Scott]

Sorry, I thought you were implying that Sainsbury's weedkiller was safer.

I've got over 100 litres after dilution but I won't tell them that :-)

[ARW]

TBH I never looked at was in the weedkiller. I know that it killed a

16ft conifer in a year just by pouring it on or around the roots. Well dead enough just that they had to cut it down.

[ARW]

The ones I nailed into my MD's tree in his front garden have done f*ck all in two years.

He knew about it, he supplied the nails and said "wait until the wife is out before you fit them"

[Tim Watts]

Back to glyphosate. Takes a while to "develop" :)

[Chris Green]

Where do you get 'copper nails' from? I'd guess they're quite difficult to knock in too as copper is decidedly soft.

[Andy Burns]

Amazon marketplace

[newshound]

Only if it is very pure, and not if it is cold-worked. Or perhaps "copper" nails are actually bronze? 5% tin won't add much to the cost but will make them as strong as steel.