markkemark
LawnSite Member
- Location
- Lewisville, TX
First of all I'm new, so hello...
I work at a nursery and in the winter I go to seminars and things just to fill time. I recently went to a Scott's training seminar to freshen up on the chemicals and ways to sell them to homeowners. The speaker was this man who had been with the company for a while and really appeared to know what he was talking about, and I'm sure he does. But, he did frighten me a bit when he said, "What if I was to tell y'all that right now, in a greenhouse, we have grasses that only need to be mowed once a month." I'm thinking to myself, that is terrible! And he continued to say, "We have also found a way to apply Roundup on the entire lawn (actively growing) and not show any burning of the grass and get a complete kill of both broadleaved and grassy weeds".
I raised my hand and said, "Wouldn't you loose money on all the other products that you sold, because now they only had to buy one product?"
He said, "Maybe, but they would definitely be buying allot more Roundup!"
My question is, does anyone see any problem with slow growing grasses that are cured of weeds with an easy homeowner application of Roundup? I DO...
I work at a nursery and in the winter I go to seminars and things just to fill time. I recently went to a Scott's training seminar to freshen up on the chemicals and ways to sell them to homeowners. The speaker was this man who had been with the company for a while and really appeared to know what he was talking about, and I'm sure he does. But, he did frighten me a bit when he said, "What if I was to tell y'all that right now, in a greenhouse, we have grasses that only need to be mowed once a month." I'm thinking to myself, that is terrible! And he continued to say, "We have also found a way to apply Roundup on the entire lawn (actively growing) and not show any burning of the grass and get a complete kill of both broadleaved and grassy weeds".
I raised my hand and said, "Wouldn't you loose money on all the other products that you sold, because now they only had to buy one product?"
He said, "Maybe, but they would definitely be buying allot more Roundup!"
My question is, does anyone see any problem with slow growing grasses that are cured of weeds with an easy homeowner application of Roundup? I DO...