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   Pavel314 to All   
   Re: tip: weeds   
   12 May 19 07:15:58   
   
   From: pintiha@jhmi.edu   
      
   On Saturday, May 11, 2019 at 11:01:43 PM UTC-4, T wrote:   
   > On 5/11/19 7:43 PM, Pavel314 wrote:   
   > > On Friday, May 10, 2019 at 1:09:13 PM UTC-4, T wrote:   
   > >> Hi All,   
   > >>   
   > >> I am involved in a holy ware against the weeds again   
   > >> this year.   
   > >>   
   > >> The past two years, I though that if I just picked the   
   > >> weed and dropped in in place, the it would stop them   
   > >> from seeding.   
   > >>   
   > >> Well, It is worse than ever this year.  Apparently, when   
   > >> you pull the weed, whatever it has left in it puts its   
   > >> effort into seeding.  Now I have four times as much cheat   
   > >> grass!  Poop!   
   > >>   
   > >> This years I pull them and stick them into a bag for   
   > >> disposal.  So far, two big garbage bags full of cheat   
   > >> Grass and others.   
   > >>   
   > >> Death to weeds!   
   > >>   
   > >> -T   
   > >    
   > > We have a three-bin compost system, with one bin for each years weeds. In   
   a couple of years, it's rotted down to good compost.   
   > >    
   > > Paul   
   > >    
   >    
   > How do you make sure the ubiquitous, indestructible seeds   
   > are dead?   
      
   After a couple of years buried under a couple feet of vegetable waste and   
   sheep manure, they're pretty much killed out. If any survive, they get picked   
   when they sprout in the garden and go back to the compost pile. The garden   
   rows are all heavily    
   mulched so very few weeds make it through the mulch into the light.   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)   

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