bdnow a écrit : > > >Status: U > >Date: Sat, 22 Dec 2001 01:31:51 EST > >Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > >Sender: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > >From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > >To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > >Subject: Bio-Dynamic weed control > >X-Comment: Original message was addressed to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > > >Hello, > > > ><snip> > >I have been Bio-Dynamic for many years. I live in Sandpoint, Idaho. I > >have sold valerian plants to Hugh Courtney for a few years now. I also > >do a bulk order of Stella Natura calendars. I'm certified organic, but > >mostly I am a clay artist and sell handbuilt one-of-a-kind animal > >statues for gardens. > > > >I'm also the only organic person on the Bonner County Weed Advisory > >Board and have a grant from the state to do non-chemical weed control on > >an 8-mile road right-of-way that is the feeder road for many private > >roads in my neighborhood. We had a chemically sensitive man > >living on this road who was injured by a clandestine herbicide spraying > >by the county in 1999 and he has had to move away. I think that is why > >the state gave us the money. We have been fighting being sprayed with > >2,4-D and clopyralid for 9 years, but haven't really "taken care" of > >the weeds until this summer, our first year of the grant. I didn't own a > >weedeater and they bought us one with all the trimmings. We spent > >76 hours weedeating the knapweed, tansy, hawkweed and thistle. > > > >I need some way to discourage a lot of so-called noxious weeds. > > > >I have 15 units of Pfeiffer Field Spray that I hope to put together with > >a D-7 weed ash solution of the four varieties of "weeds" and spray > >every year for four years. I am thinking that I could repeat just the > >weed ash spraying several more times in the season. We have built > >a sprayer out of a Shurflo pump to be run off a truck alternator with a > >professional spray nozzel to go on three successive 50-gallon barrels > >down and up the other side of the road again in one pass. > > > >I also thought of demonstrating some other non-chemical methods like > >planting competing plants like rye, native grasses and red clover; mulching; > >in test plots to use up the money, but really, what I want to demonstrate > >is superb weed control that does not harm microorganisms or animals. > > > >Do you have any expertise on this subject that you can share? The state > >has granted me more money than I can use and won't carry it through this > >year. I don't want to have it sent back and am writing a sort of grant > >application to the new Weed Supervisor and the Commissioners and also > >trying to interest the Extension Agents. Bio-Dynamics is so foreign to > >them and nobody believes that we can get rid of the weeds with homeopathic > >doses of a weed ash solution. I've always just dug up or pulled weeds > >on my own land and I have maintained the strip of right-of-way on either > >side of our private road mechanically for many years. > > > >Thank you for any help you can give me > > > >Merla Barberie > >1251 Rolling Thunder Ridge > >Sandpoint, Idaho 83864
hello merla, can you explain me what is "Pfeiffer Field Spray"? thanks A+ PB
