What Monsanto Doesn't Want You To Know...

[dawnsartstudio]

...You don't need Round-Up® herbicide to kill dandelions. A couple of hours ago, I sprayed the dandelions in my yard with an incredibly effective non-discriminate herbicide, and I didn't kill any of the grass

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awww, the poor dandelions

[jenneubauer]

lol! just kidding ;)you know what? we don't have any dandelions - weird huh.
but we do get mushrooms every once in a while. i swear they grow in 1 day!
thank you for the information - it's true - why use the other stuff.

i remember when i was a kid, my mom would wash my hair and then rinse it with
vinegar - to make it all shiny and stuff :)

Re: awww, the poor dandelions

[dawnsartstudio]

HAH! Mushrooms pop up here overnight, as well... I keep hoping they're edible, but of course they aren't. =( You're either very fortunate, or entirely freakish, to not have dandelions. My neighbors, I think, are growing them as a cash crop. At least, I'm assuming that's how some of them propose to pay their mortgages. 9.9

I didn't know vinegar had a 'make it shiny' effect on hair. My mom was a great believer in that 'Hair So New' stuff. I don't know if it even exists anymore.. it was something like the first leave-in conditioner. I *do* know vinegar is most excellent for washing vegetables (to remove pesticide residues) and for removing stubborn odors from laundry and upholstery. (when your dog has seizures, you learn this stuff.)

[kallysti]

“If dandelions were hard to grow, they would be most welcome on any lawn.” ~Andrew V. Mason ;)

That's awesome! Yeah, we don't get any dandelions in my yard either (we live in the desert, who needs grass even!)

We do get other weeds, though, here & there at the edge of sidewalks... I need to try this.

[dawnsartstudio]

Oh, DO, Stephanie. It works most excellently, and doesn't cost diddly squat. Cheap AND effective? Sign me up!

Just do the same thing you'd do for any herbicide: Pick a dry, warm, sunny day (the hotter, the better) and make sure the root of the plant gets targeted, one way or t'other. It's easy, on sidewalks and driveways... just douse the whole plant with vinegar. At the edge of the grass, though, ya gotta be a little more careful. =P

[rheastarr]

ty for the tip!

[dawnsartstudio]

No sweat. =D I like finding information that helps folks live better for less money. This information is freely available for anyone who knows where to look, but I figure this kinda stuff bears disseminating freely. =)

[rheastarr]

too true... I am just now getting used to the idea that I have a yard now... lol after a few years of renting it is strange to now be responsible for a yard and garden of my own.

:P

[dawnt]

Great tip, Dawn! I'm going to try it on my sidewalk cracks. And on the dandelions that pop up in my flower beds. (They aren't too much of a problem in the yard proper.)

Speaking on Monsanto.....they are contemplating building a plant here in town. Ugh. Lots of resistance to it, but don't know if that will do any good, given the support from City government. :-P

[dawnsartstudio]

OMG! Dawn... you know Monsanto *is* the devil, right? =P Truly, it's a very large and very careless multi-national corporation that will sponsor Little League teams and annual barbecue picnics for the whole town with one arm while the other arm is shaking a fistful of lawsuits at farmers who may or may not have held back grain for seed the next year, or who have two or three stalks of Monsanto-patented grain growing in their fields, without their knowledge. With yet another arm, they'll be dumping toxic chemicals in your waterways whenever they aren't being watched.

I'm personally boycotting anything Monsanto touches, including saccharin and aspartame. No processed foods, no GMO's. You wouldn't believe how healthy the people in this house are getting. =D

Keep fighting them setting up a plant in your town. The two or three hundred jobs aren't worth enabling such a multi-national to grow stronger. Give those jobs, instead, to CSA's, and environmental engineers.

If they get in anyway... move. =P

[dawnt]

I KNOW!!! :-/ And fortunately, a lot of others are beginning to know too, via letters to the editor in the newspaper, a couple of public forums and some pretty organized presentations to the City Council.

We'll see....these kinds of protests have worked in the past for factory hog confinements etc.

Oh....and speaking of Monsanto....during the floods, a container of Agent Orange that has been sitting in a State park shed for years has managed to go missing. Floated off somewhere. But....we are told not to worry. Won't harm anything. The stuff killed my Dad and my little brother had half of his lower intestines removed at 36, (he was conceived/born post exposure), because of the stuff...I somehow don't think it is no biggie.

[dawnsartstudio]

Oh, man. =( Terrible stuff.. Good luck getting rid of Monsanto. I've got no doubt the city council is being promised huge sums of hard cash.

[laurenabrams]

Wow...I am so impressed, Dawn....I'm going out to buy some vinegar...it's a shame I just read this a few days after painfully bending over to pull up all the dandelions I could...now I'll be able to just spray them dead...you rule, woman!
Lauren

[dawnsartstudio]

Aww, shucks

[laurenabrams]

can't wait to get to the grocery store and get me some vinegar!