It's about time!

Make the city a little more uglier

What the cancer society should do is put on some training classes for how a person is to control the weeds without the herbicides. Instead of just saying don't use them, actually provide an alternative, not just say there is one.
Groups wonder why their various initiatives fail and that is why. Don't tell people you can't do this or that as it causes harm, without telling / training them in what is supposedly good.

plants and grass are healthier, and can overpower weeds in the long run.

Talk is cheap. For years the only weed control they had was the lawn mower. I walked through Ft George Park last year and there were areas that were solid weeds that had been mowed down to about an inch.

The boulevards were a mass of dandelions. And the lawns were being cut long after the grass had turned brown. These are the same people that have now come upwith a great plan to control weeds on City property.

First they need to get rid of the weeds. How about a grand tour with Roundup and reseed the entire area. Next on the agenda would be to start enforcing the maintenance bylaws by having the boulevards kept free of weeds along private property.

On the corner of Massey Drive and Ospika infront of the strip mall the boulevard is covered with last winters gravel and weeds. What a eye sore.

A change in how City boulevards will look. I'll beleive it when I see it.

Cheers

I spent the summer of 2006 in Kamloops "the desert city" and was amazed how green and well kept their parks and boulevards were. Two weeks of 35+ degrees and still green.
I completly agree with Bridge...does anybody at the city look down from their vehicles when driving around? Ugly!

How that the city is devoid of trees, more sunlight is great for weeds.

I'm curious to see what comes up next year on Massey across from Massey Stadium. That out side curve is one big test plot for various weeds. Maybe the different patterns of weeds will be eye catching.

Is marijuana a weed?

How to kill pests without killing yourself or the earth......

There are about 50 to 60 million insect species on earth - we have named only about 1 million and there are only about 1 thousand pest species - already over 50% of these thousand pests are already resistant to our volatile, dangerous, synthetic pesticide POISONS. We accidentally lose about 25,000 to 100,000 species of insects, plants and animals every year due to "man's footprint". But, after poisoning the entire world and contaminating every living thing for over 60 years with these dangerous and ineffective pesticide POISONS we have not even controlled much less eliminated even one pest species and every year we use/misuse more and more pesticide POISONS to try to "keep up"! Even with all of this expensive and unnecessary pollution - we lose more and more crops and lives to these thousand pests every year.

We are losing the war against these thousand pests mainly because we insist on using only synthetic pesticide POISONS and fertilizers There has been a severe "knowledge drought" - a worldwide decline in agricultural R&D, especially in production research and safe, more effective pest control since the advent of synthetic pesticide POISONS and fertilizers. Today we are like lemmings running to the sea insisting that is the "right way". The greatest challenge facing humanity this century is the necessity for us to double our global food production with less land, less water, less nutrients, less science, frequent droughts, more and more contamination and ever-increasing pest damage.

National Poison Prevention Week, March 18-24,2007 was created to highlight the dangers of poisoning and how to prevent it. One study shows that about 70,000 children in the USA were involved in common household pesticide-related (acute) poisonings or exposures in 2004. At least two peer-reviewed studies have described associations between autism rates and pesticides (D'Amelio et al 2005; Roberts EM et al 2007 in EHP). It is estimated that 300,000 farm workers suffer acute pesticide poisoning each year just in the United States - No one is checking chronic contamination.
In order to try to help "stem the tide", I have just finished re-writing my IPM encyclopedia entitled: THE BEST CONTROL II, that contains over 2,800 safe and far more effective alternatives to pesticide POISONS. This latest copyrighted work is about 1,800 pages in length and is now being updated at my new website at http://www.thebestcontrol2.com .

This new website at http://www.thebestcontrol2.com has been basically updated; all we have left to update is Chapter 39 and to renumber the pages. All of these copyrighted items are free for you to read and/or download. There is simply no need to POISON yourself or your family or to have any pest problems.

Stephen L. Tvedten
2530 Hayes Street
Marne, Michigan 49435
1-616-677-1261
"An invasion of armies can be resisted, but not an idea whose time has come." --Victor Hugo

"Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter." -- Martin Luther King Jr.

The first rule of weed control is a healthy crop. Many cut there lawns to short so that they will look carpet like. It needs to be about two inches or more tall. May look a little shaby but it will be healthy and deter weed growth.

We never use chemicals for weed control or chemical fertilizers. A good dressing of bone meal and lime in the fall. Vineger works great for weeds if applied judiciously and its great fun to crawl over the lawn and dig a few weeds when they start.

We have a rental property next door that grows mostly dandelions and the other neighbour controls his weeds with a lawn mower City style. Yet we have very few weeds that we cant control by digging.

Cheers

Or maybe dandelions and a few other green weeds are ok? Really, if they keep them mowed, watered, etc. then green is green as far as i am concerned.
As an aside, when will some people learn that doom and gloom statements, melodrama and the like only work on the already converted? Reduction of pesticides is something it seems most people are comfortable with. This is likely because it is a reasonable idea. The key word here being 'reaonable'.