I noticed this walking from Bounds Green along Durnsford Road a few days ago. Pesticide sprayed along the edge of the path has burnt the grass and left a dead strip along the entire length of the pathway. I am assuming this is Haringey Council's approach to weed suppression. With nature and the environment in crisis I am concerned about the usage of strong pesticides in this way and think it needs to be stopped immediately.
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This does look like use of a herbicide to kill weeds along the pavement, probably Roundup or some such. I agree with you, totally unnecessary and dangerous.
Yes indeed! Do sign the petition started by the Friends of Finsbury Park to ask Haringey to... - particularly in parks and green spaces, but also more widely. The bare patches in Finsbury Park are horrendous - see picture accompanying this petition. There were a lot of complaints about this at the Biodiversity Action Plan meeting earlier this year - how can you encourage biodiversity if you are poisoning plants?
The methods used in Alexandra Park (not run by the Council) around trees are great - they leave the brambles and cow parsley to grow in a collar around them. This mulches the ground, is even easier to do than spraying, and does not involved spreading poison! I asked the Friends of Alexandra Park if glyphosate was used anywhere else in the Park - they were going to make enquiries.
HOWEVER glyphosate certainly is used elsewhere around here. I noticed somebody spraying the edges of the raised grass beds in Alexandra Park Road by the entrance to the park. He's a really nice guy called Neil who has worked for the Parks dept for many years, and lives around here, and said that he never sprays in his local park - the Rec on Durnsford Road - but pulls weeds by hand there! He said that the grass needed to be removed on the raised beds so that the view of passing motorists would not be obscured. Doesn't look like that's an appropriate reason for Susie's example above, though!.
I said, what if the local community planted low-growing plants that would form a dense mat along the edge to crowd out the grass? He wasn't of course in a position to answer. But I would have thought that that would be a possibility? Anybody know any appropriate plants?