You can flag posts like that by clicking on the three dots at the lower right of the post, and then on the flag symbol. I usually choose the Spam option. It will go away within a day or two, when a moderator sees it. 
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great, more rubbish on this forum.
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Nope: We were all just as shocked as you.
Straight from the scientist’s mouth.
“People will generally accept facts as truth only if the facts agree with what they already believe.”
Andy Rooney
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It is amazing what people accept as facts from marketing, but I digress.
Any of the natural weed killer is enough to have as they does not harm bees by any means. I do have the bee far as well, and using the natural one for myself.
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Everyone has their own gardening style, and mine is on the casual side and organic. My place is a certified wildlife habitat, so I like things to be as natural as possible. I have 1/2 acre, and every year after the first round of rain, we start knocking down the weeds and leave them where they fall so they can add nutrients to the soil. A hula hoe works really well for this. It’s a big job and I hire someone to help. We work in sections, and we have to revisit it a bit, because weeds sprout at different times. The idea is, that if you get them when they’re small, they’re fertilizer. And then we’re pretty much good for the next year.
Over the past 12 years I’ve been harnessing the “lower 40” here by terracing it and adding paths so every year there’s less to do. I especially like weed cloth and gravel so I can go out when it’s wet and muddy, or even in the rain without slipping down the slope. The beehive area at the bottom is gravel, but most of the paths are dirt covered with mulch. I recently got a chipper/shredder so I can make my own.
Here’s how it looks when its all cleaned up, but right now all the leaves are on the ground. Crunch, crunch, crunch!
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Looks like we are going to get some decent rain over the next 10 days, so hopefully that will help bees with the nectar flow!
Love your gardens. So pretty! 
Thank you! And yes, it’s getting really blustery! Weeding season is almost here!
Pretty cool! I liked the way you are gardening. Have no words to appreciate you! I’m just stunned lol!
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Wow Claire your garden is stunning!
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This is sort of Southern California urban canyon coastal scrub – mostly drought tolerant with some natives (including me) and naturalized non-natives. Plus some old trees from the early 1900s when this area was a commercial citrus grove and a few that I planted. But I do have to keep the weeds down because otherwise, I’ll get a visit from the fire department.
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I also love your garden @claire_c . I can’t let a lot of my weeds rot down to be fertilizer. I have several species of Wandering Jew as well as nut grass/sedge that gets put in the wheelie bin. I have mulched Wondering Jew down at times, but not nut grass. I have thought about mulching a heap of nut grass to see how many of the nuts survive the process.
My weed killer is like yours Claire, in that they’re all pulled, dug by hand.