Re: What is this growing in my yard?

On Feb 12, 11:15 pm, Bert Hyman <b...@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
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On Feb 11, 5:48ÿpm, Bert Hyman <b...@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
B...@xxxxxxxxxx (WDS) wrote
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On Feb 10, 6:25 pm, "Walter Cohen" <w_co...@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Looks like some variation of clover.

I agree.

If you really don't want it you can use a broadleaf weed killer
on it.

Ortho makes a variety of "Weed B Gon for Southern Lawns" for St.
Augustine grass that's supposed to work on clover.

Try to avoid more damn chemicals that get into our water supplies
and food chains!
It looks like some sort of clover?
If it is; why try to get rid of it?

Fair enough.

The OP only asked what it was; I just assumed he wanted to get rid of
it.

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Bert Hyman | St. Paul, MN | b...@xxxxxxxxxxxx Hide quoted text -

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Yes Bert: Valid comment. Made the same assumption here!
So often that people see something they think shouldn't be there and
reach for the chemical bottle!
Should have just said "Clover; is good".
BTW: In 1970 we were using well water etc. on our half acre lot, Now
on municipal supply. But various neighbours have since used so many
herbicides/insecticides that some won't even allow their pets (one
also wonders what it does to children/people?) to romp in their
gardens!
So we don't and wouldn't, use our well water, unless we had a series
of chemical analysis tests, probaly costing several hundred dollars
each time as clear eveidence of not only bacteriological but also
chemical safety.
The other thing we have done since 1970 is plant trees; even in this
rather severe N.Eastern Canadian climate of long winters, short
summers and thinnish poor acid soil, we now have at least 50 trees
that act as windbreak and produce oxygen. And we have pointedly not
used any chemicals to get them to grow or survive.
Sermon ends! Cheers.
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