The War on Weeds
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The War on Weeds
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Re: The War on Weeds
#2Interesting if perhaps a little over simplified, however I can't take anyone seriously who self describes as "a member of the East Coast liberal elite"
Yikes
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#3Interesting if perhaps a little over simplified, however I can't take anyone seriously who self describes as "a member of the East Coast liberal elite" Yikes
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#4Interesting if perhaps a little over simplified, however I can't take anyone seriously who self describes as "a member of the East Coast liberal elite" Yikes
> My father was a Vietnam veteran and a lifelong Republican. He liked to say that women belong in the kitchen. I had become an environmental studies professor, a member of the East Coast liberal elite, a daughter he was ashamed to introduce to his friends at the Post.
It's pretty clear from the context that it's a "badge of shame" label from the point of view of her father, applied since she went down the path of academia instead of becoming a housewife.
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#5I view my lawn the same way as the author, in that I do want there to be a good amount of biodiversity there. I let everything grow in the yard sections and even have parts that I leave almost totally wild without even cutting. But I also don't want weeds growing in the cracks between my paving stones, or poison ivy growing anywhere, and there's not a whole lot that works on knotweed! So I don't use a ton of Roundup but I do use a bit here and there. In moderation is again key but doesn't seem to fit into anyone's ideological framework these days.
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#7Interesting if perhaps a little over simplified, however I can't take anyone seriously who self describes as "a member of the East Coast liberal elite" Yikes
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#8Here's what I want:
- take a soil sample and put it in a cup, add solvent/water and shake
- insert testing strip, or even drip into vials with reagents
- compare color to back of the box to determine what adulterants are in the soil
If I something like this were available locally, I'd see a price of 100 or less selling well for people interested in growing their own produce or simply gaining more insight into what's in their local dirt.
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#9what exactly is a "weed" this seems like such a nefarious and ill-defined concept.
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#10I view my lawn the same way as the author, in that I do want there to be a good amount of biodiversity there. I let everything grow in the yard sections and even have parts that I leave almost totally wild without even cutting. But I also don't want weeds growing in the cracks between my paving stones, or poison ivy growing anywhere, and there's not a whole lot that works on knotweed! So I don't use a ton of Roundup…
Some areas have farmers that will drop off a small herd of goats that will happily eat all of that poison ivy for a reasonable price. I've always wanted to do it, but only this year have we produced enough poison ivy where it may make sense.