They love them so much they eat them to death, and this is being used in Los Angeles (California, USA) by Environmental Land Management who rent out weed-cleaning goats. You can read the story here in New York Times.
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Wednesday, January 25, 2012
Product: Weed trimmer toy
The toy that creates people with OCD gardening syndrome - a Home Depot toy weed trimmer. It is only $9.98, and a great buy of plastic made in China, I bet. Give the kid a real metal shovel instead to dig up some thistle roots. Let kids do real things, and learn about the real outdoors. But maybe that is too much to hope for, when there are so many gadget-happy parents in the US.
Weed whackers and the nature of weeds
'Coal and Ice' (Seamus) on Flickr took this great photo of weed removal tools, and also wrote a long and insightful piece as part of the photo description. Head over to Flickr and read it here.
Do you know all the tools? There is a scythe, string trimmer, Ryobi, grass whip, clippers, Fux, weed cutter, corn knife... Coal and Ice has it all explained in his post on Flickr.
[Photo (c) Coal and Ice, Flickr]
Friday, July 29, 2011
Vinegar and hot water
Two really good ways to kill any plant, weed or not, is to either pour boiling water over it or spray it with vinegar. It works. Here is a link to a vinegar killing evaluation, and the boiling water I have used myself. Just boil some water in a tea kettle and then pour it over the weeds in the driveway. Much better than store-bought chemicals.
After the spraying....
...the roadside is no longer alive. Seen in Franklin Township, along Cozzens Lane.
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