Monday, June 6, 2011

Use Herbicides and Live Weeds-Free

There are various ways to remove unwanted and bothersome weeds. Applying Herbicides is one of the best methods that can kill pesky plants. Besides, there are other methods as well that you can follow.
Hand-pulling is one of the most commonly practiced ways. It is very effective for the herbaceous plant. Using this method newly emerged saplings of wood plants and trees can be removed. Here you should keep watch on newly emerged plants. Once you discovered the unwanted plants are sprouting, you need to pull out them instantly 'by hand'.

If you have the remaining of a tree, use a stump grinder. It happens now and then that we leave the remaining part of a tree when it is cut down. Consequently, it sprouts from the reaming part and grows with branches. Later it becomes a matter of headache. But when you use a stump grinder it not only kills the remaining part of the plants but also serves an aesthetic purpose. Although the procedure is costly to follow, but it is better than leaving an irritating things in your yard that might cause an accident.
Sometimes, it may happen that after cutting down a tree you have forgotten to grind it. Consequently, the plant continues to thrive. So in this juncture you need to apply cut stump herbicide to kill plants down to the root. Here you can spray different herbicide products like Brush-B-Gon, Roundup or Brush Killer on the cut surface to eliminate re-sprout.

Concentrate is another herbicide that is used for large areas which kills plants indiscriminately without any selection or preference. These herbicides are normally diluted with water before their use. They are used directly on the leaves of the plants.

When you are applying herbicides on plants there are few advices and cautions for you. Just have a look on them.
When you are treating a tree, you need to ensure that any sawdust from cutting limbs or trees should not be there where you are applying herbicides, because the sawdust can absorb herbicides. Then the sawdust will prevent you from treating the plant that you want to remove. It is batter to use herbicides to the stump or cut limb area as soon as possible. For in this way plant will suck up the chemical solution through its own natural reactions.
Some plants which have large swaths less than 6 inches in diameter are called 'basal bark'. So for them 'basal bark herbicides' are applied (they are generally oil soluble). Here herbicides are normally 'brushed' onto the trunk or bark of a tree; consequently the tree absorbs the chemical solution through the bark and gets killed. Here herbicides firstly kill the growing 'outer ring' of a tree then kill it.

Why Pest Control is Getting Harder

There has been a long battle between man and pests since the first date of their co-habitation on the Earth. Egyptian mummification was done on the basis of preventing pests from affecting the dead. We all know about the locust plagues mentioned in the Bible. So from the ancient time to till now people have put a great deal of endeavour to bring these pests under their control. But today we are more successful than our past time because today we have blended our scientific and technological expertise to control them. Today we are no further along in the war against bugs. But if you ask how, I must tell you to look bellow.
This has been possible due to pesticide resistance. Now we have produced stronger and more deadly chemicals to fight these pests that have helped pests to be stronger in immune.
Most pesticides available today has been patterned after nerve gas technology introduced at the time of World War II. These synthetic chemicals are called neuro-toxins as they attack the central nervous system which is in the brain. Here the mode of attacking varies on chemicals as well as on pests. Anyway here our intention is to disrupt a necessary component of life for a pest so that it gets killed.
When pesticides are applied, they function in different ways. For some pesticides affect reproduction, some affect on the ability to eat but maximum pesticides affect the brain functions of voluntary and involuntary movements. Consequently, pests get paralyzed or get killed due to smother.
But you may say in spite of all these lethal poisons available still now why we are suffering from pest and telling continuously for pest control. The reason behind it is that synthetic pesticide phenomenon that gives pests Pesticide Resistance.
As a result of it a certain percentage will survive, even after the pest population is exposed to a pesticide. They will survive because they are genetically protected to those pesticides. During the time of their reproduction, they pass that immunity onto their offspring (pupas). Eventually the entire population gets protected and the pesticide once used to control them becomes worthless.
Thus the solution for continued control and using of toxic synthetic chemicals become useless as the same Pesticide Resistance occurs. Rather these pests get well immune to multiple pesticides and become harder for us to control them. So it does not depend on how lethal the dosage is or how much quantity you are using. It is simple that Pesticide Resistance will always occur when you are using synthetic pesticides.
So what can be done? The answer must come out from Nature itself.