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i use it on poison ivy, as it's the only thing that works, but i pull or dig up just about everything else. Occasionally, something really stubborn or big.
No it's not. When we bought a new house when I was a kid, the fence around the back yard was absolutely overgrown with poison ivy, to which I am deathly allergic (I once got poison ivy IN THE DEAD OF WINTER just from touching a wall it had been growing on the previous summer).
Fortunately my dad was ALMOST immune to the stuff. So he could pull all the vegetation and dispose of it without a huge risk, but that left the roots.
I had never boiled so much water in my life, before or since. He dug a trench along the main rootlines and killed it all with boiling water.
The one thing I would use it on, it won't kill. Trumpet vine will drink it by the gallon, laugh at you, and then get on with the business of pulling your house down anyway.
We xeriscape here a lot, but to too many people that means gravel and black plastic, which soon sprouts weeds because all that is, is a nice place for the desert sands to rest and the weeds just sprout in the gravel ON TOP of the black plastic/weed block.
i use it on poison ivy, as it's the only thing that works, but i pull or dig up just about everything else. Occassionly, something really stubborn or big.
I've never used Roundup. I own a half acre of woods behind my house and poison ivy pops up every year. I use whatever weed killer I'm using on my grass and it kills the poison ivy. I've sprayed a couple of times this year.
The one thing I would use it on, it won't kill. Trumpet vine will drink it by the gallon, laugh at you, and then get on with the business of pulling your house down anyway.
Cut the Trumpet Vine back to ground level every spring. It won't grow back enough in one season to do any damage. It is a wonderful vine for hummingbirds, they adore it. You can then train it up lattice instead of having it grow up your house. It will then provide wonderful shade cooling the house in summer.
Given the guys job, I would suspect he was exposed to all kinds of chemicals in addition to round-up.
Not to mention that it's not the companies fault that he got literally bathed in the stuff by applying it in high winds and equipment failures.
It's also not going to be that hard to pack a jury in San Francisco with people that have strong "organic" leanings etc.
All that said, maybe it does cause cancer but I'm familiar enough with lawsuits and so forth that until I see a really solid study with essentially conclusive proof I'm going to be a little dubious.
I have to wonder if anyone on that jury would even know how to operate a pump up sprayer.
Does it take that to sit on a jury... or just be fair and honest.
It also takes people who don't already have a preconceived notion that RoundUp causes cancer.
I'll bet the majority of San Francisco residents firmly believe it does along with most posters posting here.
It also takes people who don't already have a preconceived notion that RoundUp causes cancer.
I'll bet the majority of San Francisco residents firmly believe it does along with most posters posting here.
I was reading USAToday and found this scary information:
A number of popular breakfast foods, including cereals, granola bars and instant oats, were tested and found to contain potentially dangerous amounts of cancer-linked glyphosate, the main ingredient in weed killer.
The Environmental Working Group (EWG), an environmental advocacy organization that conducted the study, said Wednesday that glyphosate was found in all but five of 29 oat-based foods that were tested.
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