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eithni
01 June 2009 @ 03:50 pm
Bother and Damn  
The Plan:
Friday - Round-up the plants in the front of the house that I want to get rid of
Weekend - Out of town while the plants die
Monday - pull the corpses and roto-till the front

Reality:
Monday - the little bastards are not even wilted.  >:/  I guess I'll go out and hit them again, more thoroughly this time.


EDIT (4:28): Mosquitos are blood-sucking hellspawn. I need a bat house for the back yard.
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teffanteffan on June 1st, 2009 09:03 pm (UTC)
You can't just... get rid of them? They have to die first?
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eithni: WTFeithni on June 1st, 2009 09:24 pm (UTC)
I want to put grass there instead. They are particularly pernicious "ornamentals" that already were trying to take over the lawn. So, yes, they need to die first.
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teffanteffan on June 1st, 2009 09:30 pm (UTC)
Ok, I'm confused. Can't you just pull them out and then they'll have no choice but to die, and won't hold back your planned schedule?
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Mark Gordonmtgordon on June 1st, 2009 09:39 pm (UTC)
Perhaps "pernicious" implies "will grow back from the slightest root fragments remaining in the soil."
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eithni: do I need to kill you?eithni on June 1st, 2009 09:52 pm (UTC)
Precisely. I want them deaddeaddead otherwise I will be pulling them out of the lawn forever.
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eithni: do I need to kill you?eithni on June 1st, 2009 09:52 pm (UTC)
mtgordon has the right of it - if I don't kill them first, they'll just keep coming up in the grass.
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Sweet Ol' Berwyn: tomatobaron_berwyn on June 2nd, 2009 12:26 am (UTC)
I read your post 'Round-up the plants" to mean gather them in ne location, and was going to suggest using Roundup herbicide. Then re-read it and thought :Duh.:
Those systemic herbicides (Roundup, Weed-Be-Ded, etc) take aabout 5 days to do their thing.

Edited at 2009-06-02 12:29 am (UTC)
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eithni: do I need to kill you?eithni on June 2nd, 2009 01:59 am (UTC)
Ah. :/ I was thinking that at 4 days I should at least see some wilting. I re-sprayed them tonight for good measure.
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(Anonymous) on June 2nd, 2009 05:39 pm (UTC)
from Sol
How soon you see the effects of herbicides like Roundup depend in part on weather conditions. Prolonged hot and dry means faster wilty, curly, yellowy plants--sometimes in hours. Cooler and moister conditions--it could be over a week before any noticeable changes.
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