Here is a sample successful application of this herbicides here, non of the fluted pumpkins leaves or plant was affected while all the grasses around the plants have dried and withered off. There are rules guiding the concentration and types of herbicides that one can use for any crops. The concerns of safety must also be addressed most especially when the weed control is done in vegetable farms and foods that are consumed directly without much processing.
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It has been a very long days of weeding grasses from the farm, each day since last week we have engaged in clearing weeds from our farms among the veggies planted and every crop here. It is a necessary and compulsory exercise for any farmer.
While at it some farm neighbors chose to do their own weeding with herbicides instead. When grasses have choked your crops like this it is often difficult to do carry out manual weeding with hoes and cutlasses. And aside the stress involved one might end up pulling the planted crops along with the grasses. There are different types of grasses that grows among planted crops. And I can say that the ones that have grown among this fluted pumpkins are the types that choke and kill plants easily. Very difficult to weed out as well .
Rather than opt for manual weeding a selective herbicide was chosen to assist with the task. Before the advent of these herbicides we have no option than to always weed grasses manually.
And even when herbicides came there were concerns about the safety of using herbicides but for our environment and to humans who will be the direct consumers of these foods especially vegetables.
Grains and tubers may not have direct contact with herbicides before consumption but for vegetables that is totally not avoidable hence the need to be sure of the safety of herbicides before opting to use them.
When purchasing herbicides for weed control in vegetable farms
One can ask questions from the whole salers and reach out to customer care ok safety of the chemicals for our crops and human health in general.
And while applying these herbicides ensure that appropriate concentration of these chemicals are used. Just like with this one that the chemicals cleared off the entire weed without affecting the fluted pumpkins plants.
