56/ Why do they say that thing, and not the thing that they actually mean? (a) bc most people are fuzzy thinkers (b) when people want to express things, they reach into the grab bag of preformatted strings that society has provided them with, and pick one semi randomly
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67/ It is a liquid that you mix w water at like 1:50 and spray w a backpack sprayer, or a riding mower tow behind sprayer. It blocks an enzyme that broadleaf plants need to live, while doing no harm to narrowleaf (i.e. grasses).
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68/ poaster mentions "rhizomes" (i.e. a thick root that has lots of carbohydrates and can spread a plant laterally). Again, no experience w mugwort at all, but knotweed has the same, and my approach there is 1) get an injection gun [ look on ebay ] and inject ...
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69/ ...full strength (sold as "concentrate") glyphosate (i.e. roundup") into the step of the plant. This gets sucked down into the rhizome and kills it. ...then for the 1% that survives the glyphosate, use a pick and shovel to dig up the rhizomes and discard in a dumpster
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70/ very well said 100 square feet makes sense 1,000 acres makes sense 0.5 acres is the worst of all words too much to hoe, too little to drag a tractor cultivator overhttps://twitter.com/SporadicE5/status/1487131058122506251 …
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re: broadleaf herbicides, I've heard the claim that these have a long half-life and can cause problems later (including stories of them persisting through cows' digestive systems and making the manure unsuitable for compost) any comment there?
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(original source here was fairly standard environmentalist handwringing, so may just be completely unreliable)
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