Pamela the murderer!

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So…. you know about my poor drowned pepper seedlings, and my poor unprotected dwarf beans that disappeared… and my poor tree that didn’t appreciate its relocation… and the latest is my bamboo… but at least this time it’s intentional. After reading advice here and from experiencing it coming through the fence and up in the lawn, I decided it was more trouble than it’s worth and took the plunge… bought something called Resolva that you spray on the leaves and it goes down to the roots and kills the whole plant off but only kills what you spray it on, so I covered the plants around it to protect them and got on with the dark dreadful deed. Have been watching it die…. well waiting to see what happens is more like it because I think due to the size of the thing it might take a while and maybe another application.

I sprayed the buddleia that is growing out of my bathroom wall too and that is definitely gone. It visibly sickened within a few hours. The bamboo didn’t look anywhere near as obviously sick.

I hate killing plants, but….. (and I need to live in my building more than a weedy buddleia)

I was all set to write this blog and read my news first and saw on the forest blog about weedkillers and then looked on the information about Resolva and – oops! But I don’t know what else I could have done. At least I’m not killing off every weed in sight with it, and fussing about things in the lawn that aren’t grass. So… anyway I didn’t know about that stuff until after I’d already used it. Hopefully I’m not guilty of secondary-murder-in-the-future from using it.

• 2 Sep, 2017
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