All right, the organic gardeners/weed eradicator guy called! He can't get enough good helpers, the money is better in the oil fields, so they can't do much for another three weeks, BUT he IS coming over next Thursday to take a look and give me a quote.

He said if I'd had them here three weeks ago, they could have used a corn gluten application thing that would have killed all of the seeds, etc. of weeds. Now, we will have to burn the tops of them all and/or spray them with vinegar. The other thing which would work is to use a "hotsy" a spray washer which heats the water. He said if we sprayed them with one of those, it would kill them.

We could do any of those, but he's got three guys at $40-45 per hour and I'm thinking they could probably knock out our backyard in an hour, maybe two, for which I think it would be worth paying them. We burned weeds when I was a kid, but never this close to our house or any neighbours, plus nowadays you have to get a permit, etc. Then ya never know if a gust of wind is going to come up. Some fellow just lost his house that way. The garden guys do a very controlled version. Also, he said it's hard to find the vinegar at 30%, but he's starting to sell it. He also recommends cutting in half with water. He said the government will not list it as an herbicide even though it works really well. Wonder how much the chemical companies pay to keep it off the lists.

Anyway, I am excited. The weeds have really been bothering me, esp. when they got to over six feet tall and we had to mount an expedition to find the dog!:-)