| Topic: | Re:Chiswick-on-Sea! | |
| Posted by: | Philippa Bond | |
| Date/Time: | 23/09/23 21:51:00 |
| https://www.homesandgardens.com/gardens/best-walkable-ground-cover-plants#:~:text=Try%20spacing%20the%20slabs%20in,through%20your%20yard%20and%20relaxing. OK not a pavement but paving does not have to have all greenery around sprayed and killed off with a weedkiller that has been declared a probable carcinogen with no notice to residents making it poisonous for us all as we walk along it and bring it into our homes. It can be a couple of weeks after spraying until the paving is hoed and if it rains in the meantime that is not as effective and then that just goes into the drains. Plants can also become more resistant to the weedkiller. The film shows the roots of a tree breaking through the tarmac - that I consider to be a far worse trip hazard as was a broken drain cover - with a hole big enough to take a size 9 foot and which was not easily visible in the rain that I reported online the other day and which now has safety barriers around it. Much of this sort of damage is caused by vehicles being driven over the pavements. I also wonder why there is such reticence by those who are so worried about tripping on pavements using a walking stick - when out walking in the countryside it is quite usual to use a stick - or alpine walking sticks. If you find you are shuffling along then maybe a walking cane would be helpful. Is it because they just not fashionable any more - or because we don't want to feel that we are old enough? https://wildjustice.org.uk/glyphosate/glyphosate-use-by-local-authorities/ We can't avoid it all but why subject us to more? |