A question about the safety of Roundup & other weed killers.

Does your invsive vine look like a morning glory?

Excellent, suggestion, dp!

It is probably famous (or notorious, more likely!) in the local area!

In case any of you are wondering what this CERES place, which dadpad keeps referring to, actually is.:

http://www.ceres.org.au/

I used to live a 5 minute walk away. I wish I still did. Very handy!

Sorry, sullyfish, I'm not sure if it does or not.

Seems that we all have a great deal of trouble around here with sarcasm and the like.

If you say so.
I wouldn't have thought so, myself.

Are you a gardener, JTT?

Thank you for the thumbs down.

Are you a gardener, JTT?

Just grass, MsO, but I'd like to have a garden.

Thank you for the thumbs down.

Who are you speaking to?

Why the person who thumbed down the thread, JTT.

Of course.

Is it a possibility that that some of that grass area can be made into a garden?

Who do you suspect that was, MsO?

Is it a possibility that that some of that grass area can be made into a garden?

There's no doubt that it could and there's a good chance it could happen.

there was a major story running around a few weeks back about how the round-up immune weeds have developed almost instantly (with in five years of roundup ready GMO seeds becoming common) when it was expected that we would have 20-30 years of use. In the last two years there have been a slew of complaints about how Monsanto is rapidly ramping up the price of round-up ready seed. This is going bad in a hurry, and there does not seem to be a decent herbicide on the horizon to replace it. Nobody figured we would need one for a long time.

MORNING GLORY is any of several flowering vines of the Convolvulaceae family. This family includes hundreds of species found in all the warmer parts of the world. Among them are the sweet potato, bindweed, and moonflower. Some are showy vines, and others are troublesome weeds. The common morning glory (Ipomoea purpurea) is the showy flowering vine that is widely grown in the temperate regions of North America. It is an annual, but certain other species are perennials.
All morning glories thrive in hot weather. The leaves are usually heart shaped and light green. The blossoms are spreading and funnel shaped. They may be white or light pink. The unproved varieties also have large blue, red, purple, or striped blossoms. One species, I. pandurata, has large, white blossoms that open in the evening. The blossoms of most of the others open in the morning and close about the middle of the afternoon.
Morning glories are easily cultivated in good soil. They are popular as coverings on fences and trellises. The tip of the plant slowly revolves around in a circle until it touches some object. Then it coils around it and starts to climb. Morning glories need brush, fences, string, or other vines to climb on.

paradise

Yes. That's what paradise means, in old Persian.

Oolongteasup = no.1 suspect, JTT.



Well I hope it does happen. Gardens are good for the soul. And good for growing food & for many other purposes, too.

No, it doesn't look like Morning Glory, Dadpad.
Though similar leaves to the last photograph.
Are there any vine varieties which have knobbly fruit?

Thanks.

Im seeing that, among the subsistence farmers like the AMish, there is a new strategy that invloves a developing savvy in genetics. The new theory is that
1 We wont try to murder the broadleaf weeds by burning down the fields.

2Instead, we apply a dose of Roundup followed by a dose of stuff like 2,4 D or Dicamba (greatly diluted). These diluted values will render the plants that make it through--STERILE. So in good Darwinian mthods of "Artificial Selexction", there will be no DNA passing through to a next generation cause there will be NO NEW GENERAQTION>

MWAH HA HA HA.

Its getting kinda like a Bram SToker novel in Ag around here.
So, I think that Monsanto, in ramping up its Roundup Ready ****, may have to deal with this grassroots (so to speak) method of weed control . Its a way that doesnt involve special investments in one company's product.

As I said before, Roundup is OFF PATENT now so that anyone can make Glyphosate and sell it cheaply. Dicamba and 2,4 D have been off patent for years so to come up with a watered down version of "Agent Orange" and use it as a sterilizing agent, is just AGriculture catching up with technology.


I, of course, wouldnt eat anything thus grown, nor would I drink milk flavored with a 2,4 D pasture treatment.

Whats killing the Bee population?