BS: Gardening question

Subject: BS: Gardening question
From: JennieG
Date: 09 Dec 11 - 08:13 PM

Last night our local TV showed coverage of a police operation to clear a.....ah.....'plantation' of green leafy 'weed', and the police person was shown grabbing a large clump of green 'weed' in one hand while chopping it off low down just above the roots with the other. That would leave the roots in the ground - do they die off, or sprout again?

Himself and I were then greatly amused by footage of a police helicopter flying away laden with greenery and a few police persons....sure adds a new meaning to "flying high"!

You have to understand I'm a total innocent in this, I've never even smoked ordinary baccy let alone the wacky sort.

Cheers
JennieG

Subject: RE: BS: Gardening question
From: Bobert
Date: 09 Dec 11 - 08:24 PM

This is an annual and the stem ain't like hard wood so, sniff, it's dead...

What I want to know is why didn't they just pull them up??? Easier and safer than cutting... One yank and it's done... Ain't go no tap root...

B~

Subject: RE: BS: Gardening question
From: Dorothy Parshall
Date: 09 Dec 11 - 08:50 PM

Maybe because the police are not too bright about the nature of the plant either.

Subject: RE: BS: Gardening question
From: Bobert
Date: 09 Dec 11 - 08:54 PM

Cops not bright??? That explains alot...

B~

Subject: RE: BS: Gardening question
From: JennieG
Date: 09 Dec 11 - 09:42 PM

Thank you, Bobert, that would explain it. I don't know why the plants weren't just pulled up either - perhaps cutting is quicker?

Cheers
JennieG

Subject: RE: BS: Gardening question
From: bobad
Date: 09 Dec 11 - 09:59 PM

Maybe they don't want dirt in the chopper.

Subject: RE: BS: Gardening question
From: Jim Dixon
Date: 09 Dec 11 - 10:29 PM

Did they chop it up on site? I'll bet it smells nice.

Subject: RE: BS: Gardening question
From: JennieG
Date: 09 Dec 11 - 10:35 PM

No Jim, the branches were all loaded uncut, green and very lush, into the chopper and taken away. Hopefully it wasn't a long flight......

Cheers
Jennie

Subject: RE: BS: Gardening question
From: Jim Dixon
Date: 09 Dec 11 - 10:57 PM

Oh, you mean chopper as in helicopter? I was picturing a chopper as in chipper-shredder-mulcher-grinder-type thing.

I can see how you wouldn't want to get dirt in those, too, because it would dull the blades.

Subject: RE: BS: Gardening question
From: Bert
Date: 09 Dec 11 - 11:19 PM

...Maybe because the police are not too bright about the nature of the plant either...

A few years ago there was a cop you confiscated an old ladies crop of Cleome thinking it was pot.

We used to have those helicopters patrolling regularly when we lived in Alabama, we called them Grasshoppers.

Subject: RE: BS: Gardening question
From: JennieG
Date: 09 Dec 11 - 11:39 PM

Chopper as in helicopter, not chopper as in shredder-mulcher thing.

The TV program seemed to have been made in New Zealand (we weren't close enough to the TV to hear the sound, we weren't at home at the time) and the crop was grown in a field of corn. It didn't seem to be a patrolling helicopter, it was definitely a raid; the helicopter was used to ferry the police persons in and out of the area, and the harvested crop out.

I hope they were all strapped securely into the helicopter, or else they might have floated away.

Cheers
JennieG

Subject: RE: BS: Gardening question
From: Bobert
Date: 10 Dec 11 - 07:41 AM

True story:

Back in the 70s an old DC-3, loaded with weed, had a rough landing at a small airport in Hanover Co. Va. and ended up skidding off the runway into some deep mud... Oh yeah, it was good and stuck...

About that time, and unrelated to the DC-3, a good friend of mine was arrested for possession of a lot of pot and jailed at the Hanover County jail...

Well, the sheriff had the DC-3 evidence put into a dumpster which was chained to the post right next to the jail...

It was summer and my poor friend, who BTW loved weed more than his wife, had to sit in that jail cell and smell that sweet smell of that weed chained just a few feet away...

Talk about "cruel and unusual punishment"???

Never mind...

B~

Subject: RE: BS: Gardening question
From: GUEST,leeneia
Date: 10 Dec 11 - 03:05 PM

Answer to the gardening question:

It's better to chop the plant off because it's less work and because the roots will form a protective mat to help prevent erosion.

Better than yanking up the whole thing and exposing loose soil to the wind.

This won't work with plants that can regenerate from the root, though.

Subject: RE: BS: Gardening question
From: gnu
Date: 10 Dec 11 - 03:24 PM

Many years ago, 13 tons of dope was taken off Lunenburgfrome a sloop. It was brought to the Halifax waste incinerator and burned. Some employees deployed a bunch of pieces of steel in the incinerator and scraped the resin of the steel. Halifax Honey Oil sold well. And it was gooood.

Subject: RE: BS: Gardening question
From: Mrrzy
Date: 01 Mar 23 - 01:48 PM

Totally new gardening question:

Anybody plant that paper infused with seeds? I got some marigold paper, and a black thumb or two. Help?