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Name: Linda Omaha, N.E (Zone 5b) Always room to plant one more!            Freedombelle Jan 28, 2015 6:42 PM CST |
| Did you know that cornmeal is birth control for seeds? Sprinkle it on your garden and it will keep weed seeds from germinating and growing into plants. Of course, cornmeal will keep any seed from germinating, so don’t try this on your vegetable garden until your plants are established and you’ve finished planting seeds.Source: I found this on the internet and thought it was interesting. You can complain because roses have thorns, or you can rejoice because they have roses! |
Name: Linda Omaha, N.E (Zone 5b) Always room to plant one more! Freedombelle Jan 28, 2015 6:57 PM CST |
| Whoops, wrong forum for this, sorry! You can complain because roses have thorns, or you can rejoice because they have roses! |
Name: Margaret Delta KY I'm A Charley's Girl For Sure             |
| Welcome to the beekeeping forum Linda That's OK posting that here. Bee keepers have weeds to deal with around their hives. If anyone has tried this I'm  To hear if it actually works |
Name: Terri virginia (Zone 7a)     dragonfly53 Mar 4, 2015 7:07 AM CST |
| Corn gluten meal will control some weeds by limiting their root growth. It mostly works on crabgrass, purslane, lambsquarters, bentgrass and a few others. Its not the same as corn meal though, CGM is a by product of the corm kernel milling process for corn starch and corn syrup. Its also used in animal feeds. It makes a good fertilizer too, because it's about 10%nitrogen. Corn meal is just the whole ground up corn kernel. It probably could smother some weeds if applied heavily enough but it will also start to smell as it ferments in your garden. And technically its not organic because most corn is GMO Life is a rush into the unknown. You can duck down and hope nothing hits you, or you can stand tall, show it your teeth and say "Dish it up, Baby, and don't skimp on the jalapeños." |
Name: Linda Omaha, N.E (Zone 5b) Always room to plant one more! Freedombelle Mar 6, 2015 7:15 PM CST |
| Dragonfly53, thanks for the info about this topic, I appreciate it. You can complain because roses have thorns, or you can rejoice because they have roses! |
Name: Margaret Delta KY I'm A Charley's Girl For Sure |
| Thank you Terri for sharing that information. |
springfield MO area (Zone 6a)  Frillylily Mar 6, 2015 8:45 PM CST |
| I would imagine that spreading corn meal over the area even a light layer would attract deer. The deer around here love corn! Does the corn gluten product have a scent to it that would attract critters? I have never used it before myself and have always used Preen. Preen does work, I notice if I wait too long to put it out. But I wonder how safe it is to use around my frogs and birds and what it does to earthworms. |
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