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Do you prefer using chemicals or a natural approach to controlling weeds on your lawn?
| Response | Percent | Votes | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Chemicals | 56% | 473 | |
| Natural | 35% | 297 | |
| I don’t have a lawn | 8% | 73 | |
| Total | 843 | ||
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Did_I_say_that (DIST) says…
Headline: "Do you prefer using chemicals or a natural approach to controlling weds [sic] on your lawn?"
I have never had anyone ask if they could "wed" on my yard. But, I guess it would be okay as long as the wedding party was controlled; in which case, a natural approach, like ushers, would be best.
xbusguy (chris Ogle) says…
God put em up... God can take them away... Don't put me in the middle of this !!!
jcinelli (Janet Cinelli) says…
I keep a healthy lawn using natural fertilizer, and my lawn is about weed free.
autie (anonymous) says…
chemacls is just to bad for all the little creature in the grass.
The_Original_Bob (anonymous) says…
Autie -
Channeling your inner Waka1 dude?
autie (anonymous) says…
Just the flashback blues...man. I learned about chemicals in college and have never been the same. I'm OK now. But I do wonder since the neighbors use lots of chemicals, it that is the reason there are no peregrine falcons or osprey in my yard.
dipweed (anonymous) says…
Natural chemicals.
sunshine_noise (anonymous) says…
Whatever works I use both.
Thats_messed_up (anonymous) says…
In Prairie Park weeds are a cheap/lazy issue not an environmental issue.
Machiavelli_mania (anonymous) says…
I mow. That controls the weeds.
Dandelions and Lambsquarter can be eaten. They are not weeds. They have a use.
The convention of a perfect manicured lawn is for the superficial and those who mandate the superficial, and the owner must be perceived accordingly as superficial.
california (anonymous) says…
Machiavellit_mania:
Mowing doen't control weeds, it spreads them.
Just because a person wants a nice, manicured lawn it makes him or her superficial? Why do you mow, then? I bet you even weed whip!
Also, according to The American Heritage Dictionary, although dandelion is a plant native to Eurasia, it is widely naturalized as a WEED in North America.
Now, get back to your lawn.
Your comment is superficial (shallow) at best.
california (anonymous) says…
doen't? How about doesn't! Sorry about that, I couldn't see my spelling error for the weeds...
merrill (anonymous) says…
Turn lawns into gardens and mulch. Go for the Wildscape.
Then pull a few weeds.
A horticulture instructor would always remind that pulling weeds and/or mowing was not only the safest but most reliable.
Our waterways are poisoned due to landscape chemicals and agriculture. So much is washed into the streets then on to the rivers and creeks.
Next time you see spraying on windy days call KDHE. Get a license tag. Toxic carcinogenic drift is not nice.
"Poisoned Water" suggested that there so many new chemicals out and about that public water services may not know how to test,remove or know anything about.
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontli...
autie (anonymous) says…
Come to think of it, weed is such a nebulous term. You can buy trumpet vine (aka hummingbird vine) from some catalogs. I personally have declared war on it. It is the enemy of my blood. Some people leave dandelions and lambsquarters in order to harvest them. My wife likes red cedar but it is the scourge of pasture land. One man's trash is another man's treasure. Oh, and to rid yourself of the unwanted vegetation, buy a goat.
snoopy_79 (anonymous) says…
My lawn looks fantastic because of all the chemicals I put on it. Completely weed free and very very green! I love it! As far as the creatures go, it's either death by chemicals, hammer or foot stomp. My lawn.
Machiavelli_mania (anonymous) says…
This poll assumes that people want to get rid of so-called weeds in the yard. I will be the one to decide what is desirable and undesirable in my yard, not some social convention.
I love to see dandelions. They are beautiful. Let me tell you: It is far easier to find dandelions beautiful than to fight have them.
I mow to keep them low to the ground. I don't care what the social norm is. There may come a day when dandelion are of great value for their qualities.
In North America, things can sometimes be a bit skewed in values, California. It is just easier to rethink the North American norms, step outside them, and keep the boundaries on what is socially acceptable stretched to vast limits, ... merely to keep freedom for all.
You gotta thank Prof. Conboy for teaching me that sometimes things seems like rules that are not rules, but merely conventions. What a great guy!!
Machiavelli_mania (anonymous) says…
Autie, acacia is, while very beautiful, much like trumpet vine. Both are beautiful. Both are troublesome. Both are hard to kill.
Machiavelli_mania (anonymous) says…
Dandelion root detoxifies the liver, along with the rest of the body, and it is known to normalize blood pressure.
Beth Root or Lambs Quarter root is good for the lungs, along with the young leaves being nutritious.
The gods did not put a plant on this earth that does not have a healing property.
none2 (anonymous) says…
I've been told that urine works well to kill weeds. Just don't let your neighbors catch you applying that particular herbicide.
George_Braziller (anonymous) says…
Vinegar in a spray bottle will take care of them if the pop up in your brick sidewalk or along the curbs. Just don't spray it on anything else.
Did_I_say_that (DIST) says…
waka1 (Anonymous) says…
"dude if mothe nature putem here i anit taking them away"
Confirmation, just in case anyone thought there was any danger that waka1 would do anything resembling work.