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I swear some people should be kept from the garden chemical isles.
I posted last year about a new law in another state that required employees at stores that sell Lawn & Garden chemicals to recieve state certification after the wife of the govenor in that state used Diazinon Insecticide to treat her son's lice problem.
Well, luckily the guy today is only a danger to plants, in this case, a very old Pine Tree.
In the Herbicide market, all the products basically come down to three catagories;
Selective Herbicide: (Trimec, Weed-B-gone) Only kills certain plants, such as weeds but doesn't harm your grass.
Non-selective Herbicide: (Round-up or anything with Glysophate) Kills anything green, but does not hurt dormant plants.
Soil Sterilizers: (Hyvar, Triox) Stops alll activity in the soil preventing anything from growing in it.
This guy was tired of using Round-Up because he had to re-use it as new plants grew in. Someone told him to use Hyvar, but failed to mention that it would kill everything
Now he is upset that his Pine Tree is dying and wanted me to "fix" it. Yeah, Right!
You carelessly poison it's enviroment, during a drought and a heat wave, so it was weakened to start with and now you want me to "kiss it and make it better"?
I kept telling him the best he could do was to fertilize, fertilize, fertilize. Since a soil sterilizer destroys all the beneficial microorganisms, there is nothing you can do till it recovers on it's own, and that can take up to a year.
The biggest problem with garden chemicals is that people just do not know how to use them. They think that mixing it "double strength" will make it work double fast. If they don't hear the weed scream and fall over 5 seconds after spraying, then it doesn't work. And if I get one more person who complains that the insecticides we sell are usless because they did not work on the fungus on their plants, I will start
I posted last year about a new law in another state that required employees at stores that sell Lawn & Garden chemicals to recieve state certification after the wife of the govenor in that state used Diazinon Insecticide to treat her son's lice problem.
Well, luckily the guy today is only a danger to plants, in this case, a very old Pine Tree.
In the Herbicide market, all the products basically come down to three catagories;
Selective Herbicide: (Trimec, Weed-B-gone) Only kills certain plants, such as weeds but doesn't harm your grass.
Non-selective Herbicide: (Round-up or anything with Glysophate) Kills anything green, but does not hurt dormant plants.
Soil Sterilizers: (Hyvar, Triox) Stops alll activity in the soil preventing anything from growing in it.
This guy was tired of using Round-Up because he had to re-use it as new plants grew in. Someone told him to use Hyvar, but failed to mention that it would kill everything
Now he is upset that his Pine Tree is dying and wanted me to "fix" it. Yeah, Right!
You carelessly poison it's enviroment, during a drought and a heat wave, so it was weakened to start with and now you want me to "kiss it and make it better"?
I kept telling him the best he could do was to fertilize, fertilize, fertilize. Since a soil sterilizer destroys all the beneficial microorganisms, there is nothing you can do till it recovers on it's own, and that can take up to a year.
The biggest problem with garden chemicals is that people just do not know how to use them. They think that mixing it "double strength" will make it work double fast. If they don't hear the weed scream and fall over 5 seconds after spraying, then it doesn't work. And if I get one more person who complains that the insecticides we sell are usless because they did not work on the fungus on their plants, I will start
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