[AT] Garden question

Mike M meulenms at gmx.com
Thu Aug 4 13:15:26 PDT 2016


Ron, I think I would invest in a few "Do Not Spray" signs, placed every 
20 ft on a T-post.

Mike M



On 8/4/2016 1:36 PM, Ron Cook wrote:
> Charlie,
>       He is not being careless.  He is spraying intentionally, thinking
> he is doing me a favor.  I have had many talks with him, but the next
> thing you  know, it happens again.
> He always claims it is a new guy and he is only following directions.
> Spray all approaches and around all buildings.  Stupid hired help he
> gets does not know they are not spraying his rented ground but are
> spraying mine.  By the time I find out, it is too late.
> Ron Cook, Salix, IA
>
> On 8/4/2016 11:37 AM, charlie hill wrote:
>> That's a problem Ron but with your background you know that
>> he is responsible for his overspray.  It's time to turn the regulators
>> loose on him and make him pay for your loss.  I know you hate to
>> do that but he's not going to stop being careless until someone makes
>> him.
>>
>> Charlie
>>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Ronald Cook
>> Sent: Thursday, August 04, 2016 10:05 AM
>> To: Antique tractor email discussion group
>> Subject: Re: [AT] Garden question
>>
>> My problem with roundup is that it plants weeds!!!!!
>>
>> I labored hard and spent money to get a nice blue grass and some brome
>> grass established at my acreage, along the buildings and on the sloped
>> driveway approaches.  For years I left those areas mature so as to
>> reseed themselves.  The grass was just great after about 6 or 7 years.
>> Then along came a different employee of the farmer that farms the ground
>> and he applied roundup to the approach slopes(I own one side) and all
>> along my buildings(on my property).  Killed all the grass and now I have
>> weeds.  After 3 years of intensive work and lots of bitching, I got the
>> grass back on the approach slope.  Last week the dumb farmer sob sprayed
>> it with roundup again.  It will be weeds again next year.
>>
>> I come from farm background and retired from my aerial application
>> business.  I know about chemicals and weeds, etc.  It is the idiot
>> neighbors and their Roundup that mess up my world. Farmers found out
>> they do not have to work anymore to keep the weeds down around their
>> places.  They just spray a few times a season with roundup and turn
>> their places brown.  It shows what kind of individual they are.
>>
>> Ron Cook, Salix, IA
>>
>>
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