September 9, 2013
By Phil Maynard
He is a friendly sort and a fine neighbor, but he loves yard care by chemicals. When we first moved in he had quite a nice yard – recently sodded, I believe. Then some weeds began popping up here and there. He would go out and spray the weeds with a herbicide not only killing the weed, but all the grass in a ring around it. And then because weeds tend to grow faster than grass, the weeds would take over the grapefruit sized patch of dirt before the grass did. Then he would spray the grapefruit sized patch of weeds, which now became a basketball sized area of dirt. . . soon taken over by weeds. Well, you c