Florida algae

There has been a lot of flap about roundup, organic farming, anti GMO, environmental issues and no one wants to point fingers back at themselves.

I have a sister that lives in Florida on a man made island. The ground is mostly white sand. They have a homeowners association with all kinds of rules. Including how nice their lawn must look. This requires spraying for weeds, fertilizer to keep grass looking healthy, watering lawn 2 times a week.

Sister is complaining about green algae growing at the mouth of the channel.

Alga is plant growth that requires sunlight and fertilizer. And where is the fertilizer coming from?

People think farmers cause all the problems. Only farmers use roundup. Will anyone take credit for for creating a problem? Do you spray your fruit trees? Use weedkiller on your lawn? Fertilize your lawn? Fertilize your garden? Do you use chemicals in your garden to kill insects? Put chemicals in your lawn to kill grubs so moles won't tear up your lawn?

What are the things individuals do that aren't environmentally friendly?

City runoff is just as much or more of an issue than farming, EVERYONE must help.

My my if there is anything I hate it is nastiness, somebody get the dish rag and wipe that baby's nose.

https://money.cnn.com/2018/06/01/technology/algae-food/index.html


Relax, this is the future food source that will feed the world!


Beagle
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Anyone that thinks the algae problem has anything to do with glyphosate or any GMO has their head up their backside. Unfortunately thats a large portion of Florida. Residential and urban runoff is 80% of the problem, but all those people would rather blame farmers than themselves. Ironic that the people cryng the most are the ones causing it. Yet they continue to fertilize their lawns...

As A Florida native of many generations ( My mother's family settled here in the late 1800's ) I will say most all of our problems with runoff and algae bloom are man made problems. We build houses on land that was once a swamp and then let all the runoff go into our rivers just so we can have a nice yard. We allowed the Army Corp of Engineers to build a dike around Lake Okeechobee to control the water flowing into the Everglades just to appease US Sugar Corporation and the developers of the land around Miami. Then we built a Interstate across what was left of the Everglades and interrupted the flow of the river of grass even more. We will never be able to rectify the damage we have done to this state over the last 100 years. I wish I could have seen this country in the 1800's before we totally screwed it up. My daughter has told me many times that I was born a hundred years to late and that I would have been happier running wild cattle on the Kissimmee river basin farming a few orange trees and selling my goods to the Cubans in the late 1800's than I am now. The people and the government of Florida are there own worst enemy. Any of you that want to make a trip down here let me know and I will show what is left of the old Florida. But you better hurry it's not going to be here much longer

I never understood why anybody would water a lawn, then put fertilizers, grub killers, and weed killers on it.
Why? So they can mow it two or three times a week? Don't they have anything better to do than wear out lawn mowers?

Who defines "environmentally friendly?"

Dean

I've been to most of FL from Jax to Miami. Across Gator Alley to Naples and up to the GA line down US 27 from The Villages to Clewiston over to Bel Glade and back out of there. I never liked going to Fl and Never looked back on the way out. I would not move there nor vacation there.
To humid year around for me even in the winter. To hot even in the winter for me. Might be able to take the temps of north FL near Lake city in the winter. Yes I've been there in Jan and July.

So stay out. It will leave more room for those who like Florida.

I wish about a half million more people felt the same way you do.

(quoted from post at 08:00:23 08/17/18) I wish about a half million more people felt the same way you do.

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Half a million?
Nobody would notice.
Would need at least 5 million to maybe notice.