[AT] Garden question

[Spencer Yost]

And as usual, Darwin prevails.  Certain weeds are developing resistance:

http://weedscience.org/summary/MOA.aspx?MOAID=12

Currently limited to populations and pockets but it's only a matter of time....

Pigweed resistance is a probably the biggest impact at the moment.

Spencer Yost



Spencer Yost
> On Aug 4, 2016, at 10:05 AM, Ronald Cook <ron at lakeport-1.com> wrote:
> 
> 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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