Roundup Use

[Lucy]

I agree with you and have hardly ever resorted to pesticides, or herbicides.

In our area of Texas, the lot is small but have been able to use large sheets of black plastic held down on the sides with building bricks for some weeks until the grasses or weeds below have been killed. No harm done to the enviornment or consequently us.
The prior cane fields have more problems than just Roundup. Some pretty severe long lasting ones. Puna is not immune to that since there was some there too. There are also problems with the old houses with lead based paints, since lead leaches out 20 feet from a house and stays in the ground. Not a good thing if you plant your vegetables/herbs/fruit trees there or the kids play in the dirt.

I like the new orange peel derived insecticide called Orange Guard for bugs or Orange Oil by Medina out of Hondo Texas, here locally, used as a foliar spray or drench. Uses only 2-4 oz per gallon.
Rather have the birds and the bees and some spots on my apples! :-)

Lucy

Having another Great day in Paradise, Wherever that Maybe!