Tuesday, April 6, 2010

Choose Your Poison

Well I have been (boring) raking the yard the past couple weeks and pulled out a lot of dead weeds and trash. Wish I'd been more exciting than that. And I got part of the side tiled and weeded to plant the hops. Ooooh! Today I finished screwing the toilet paper holder so that it isn't about to fall off the wall.

Anyway, that most exciting part of the day, buying poison to nukes the yard. Wooooo poison! Let me introduce you to my two new helpers.

Contestant #1!
Ortho Weed B Gone. this product guarantees to kill over 250 different kinds of weeds while not killing grass. I doubt that we have any lawn that isn't weeds, so no big loss if we nukes to whole lot of it.

Directions
Spray, watch weeds die, don't roll in the grass or let any critter roll in the grass until after poison has dried.

I would like to take this time to apologize to any little bun-bun's who happen to eat the grass in my yard. I only hope you have the sense to not eat the grass that tastes like poison. Though I would have to eliminates your furry asses when you started crewing up my garden anyway. Moving on...

Contestant #2!
Stump out. I does, well, what they name implies. It gets stumps out by causing whatever it is that hold the layers of stump together to not connect anymore.


Directions
Step 1: Drill holes in stump
Step 2: Pour Stump out on holes. Wait 4 to 6 weeks.
Step 3: Pour gasoline or kerosene in stump. Wait until it has saturated stump.
Step4: Ignite stump to burn into harmless ash.
*romantic sigh* You had me at pour gasoline in stump. But since we didn't have a drill long enough (the holes have to be 10 inches deep) I can't start until later. No playing with power drills and fire today :( I guess size does matter.


Going back, the Weed B Gone says that you should see results in a few days (though I can't plant new grass for four weeks after application). So stay tuned for updates on how the condition of the weeds.

Before
front of house
front of house (only the left third of the grass here has been treated (due to time) and I'm hoping to get a good comparison shot)
side of house

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