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Weed Control

posted by Annie B. Bond Feb 13, 1999 7:35 pm
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Excerpted from Grow Smart, Grow Safe, A Consumer Guide to Lawn and Garden Products, by Philip Dickey, Washington Toxics Coalition

Lawn and garden chemicals include some of the most hazardous products in the
home. Products that you use to kill insects, weeds, and fungal diseases may
also be toxic to children, pets, birds, fish, and beneficial insects such as
bees and ladybugs.


  • An environmental rating system for commercial lawn and products.
    Grow Smart, Grow Safe
    rates 350 lawn and garden products—including 93
    commercially available weed killers—according to environmental concerns such
    as short and long-term health hazards, hazards to aquatic life, birds, bees,
    or pets, its half-life in the soil, and if it is a water pollution hazard.
  • Hands-on prevention, control options, and weeding tools.
    Mulches, hoes, cultivators, weed barriers, and a some tolerance for weeds are
    all viable alternatives to frequent use of weed killers, and all are discussed in Grow Smart, Grow Safe.

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ĴΩ N.

Darn! I look and look for easy green ways to stop weeds and they are not there. Perhaps I shall turn my whole yard into one big concrete slab and just maintain trees and shrubs in large pots.

Joyce Mcgill

For weeds inbetween brick work such as patios pour on white vinegar and sprinkle with salt.It turns into a paste on the weeds and in about 2 days weeds are "goners".

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Excerpted from Grow Smart, Grow Safe, A Consumer Guide to Lawn and Garden Products, by Philip Dickey, Washington Toxics Coalition. Copyright (c) by Philip Dickey. Reprinted by permission of Washington Toxics Coalition.

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