Comments on: I am the destroyer http://www.bailingbucket.com/i-am-the-destroyer/ Rhett is here to save you Mon, 06 Feb 2012 23:01:45 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v= By: Doug http://www.bailingbucket.com/i-am-the-destroyer/comment-page-1/#comment-2468 Doug Thu, 07 May 2009 20:09:44 +0000 http://www.bailingbucket.com/?p=1032#comment-2468 For those of you that want a (seemingly) more environmental way to kill a lawn there is an alternative but it would take all summer in Calgary. Cover the area with thick, black plastic and let it sit. Besides blocking life giving sunlight the sun's heat will be absorbed and basically cook any growing thing beneath and any ungerminated weed/grass seeds in the top few inches of soil. Of course you will have a bunch of very slow to biodegrade plastic that was made from natural gas leftover - so maybe this isn't the better idea even if you have all summer! The active ingredient in Roundup gets bound by clays in the soil and will biodegrade in a reasonable time frame. I don't mean to sound like a promoter for the stuff but once captured by clays it leaves no residual activity in the soil and overall it is a reasonable choice for the task at hand. For those of you that want a (seemingly) more environmental way to kill a lawn there is an alternative but it would take all summer in Calgary. Cover the area with thick, black plastic and let it sit. Besides blocking life giving sunlight the sun’s heat will be absorbed and basically cook any growing thing beneath and any ungerminated weed/grass seeds in the top few inches of soil. Of course you will have a bunch of very slow to biodegrade plastic that was made from natural gas leftover – so maybe this isn’t the better idea even if you have all summer!

The active ingredient in Roundup gets bound by clays in the soil and will biodegrade in a reasonable time frame. I don’t mean to sound like a promoter for the stuff but once captured by clays it leaves no residual activity in the soil and overall it is a reasonable choice for the task at hand.

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