On 3/7/2021 8:19 PM, Dave Smith wrote:
> On 2021-03-07 8:14 p.m., Bryan Simmons wrote:
>> On Sunday, March 7, 2021 at 5:12:50 PM UTC-6, Dave Smith wrote:
>>> On 2021-03-07 4:32 p.m., Boron Elgar wrote:
>>>> On Sun, 07 Mar 2021 12:56:49 -0700, US Janet
>>>> >
>>> ything.
>>>>>
>>>>> Knock Out Roses are mean? I didn't know and was thinking about
>>>>> getting some. Janet US
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> I do like all the blooms, but the darn things can draw blood
>>>> pretty easily. I once pruned them wearing welder gloves.
>>>>
>>> What is that low lying purplish shrub/ground cover that is covered in
>>> thorns. When I see stuff like that growing on people's lawns I
>>> wonder wtf they were thinking when they allowed that invasive crap
>>> on their property.
>>>
>>>
>>> I have an ongoing war with wild roses here. That stuff grows along
>>> the road allowance that runs alongside out house, but thank
>>> goodness only further back in the lane to the woods. I go back
>>> several times a year to cut it back, but the severe pruning seems
>>> to serve only to make it grow back even longer and denser. I think
>>> maybe this year I will attack it with Round up, or pour old engine
>>> oil on it.
>>>
>> You should NEVER use "old engine oil" as a defoliant.Â* A robust lawn
>> mower is the best way to destroy wild roses.Â* The first year you need
>> to use a lopper for the woody canes, but then you stay on top of them
>> with mowing the emergent shoots.Â* If they can't produce leaves, the
>> corms will die.Â* The new growth shoots mow down easily.
>>
>
> These are along the trail that we walk the dog every day. It is a mile
> long trail and some of them are on embankments. I have no intention of
> dragging a lawn mower that far back. Maybe I can talk my neighbour into
> going back there with his small tractor and orchard mower, or the bucket
> on his front end loader.
>

I know someone that used old engine oil like that around his property.
Not sure how much but for a few years. Contaminated his well.