Alternatives to Roundup

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2. Vinegar is the only safe thing I can think of

but it might be hard to spray an entire pasture.

The Ruth Stout gardening method of covering everything with thick layers of organic mulch would be good if you could start with smaller sections and gradually expand them. This covering can be manure, rotted hay, leaves, grass cilppings etc.

Here's a link to an article about it in Mother Earth News:

http://www.motherearthnews.com/organic-gardening/ruth-stouts-system-zmaz04fmzsel.aspx

"My no-work gardening method is simply to keep a thick mulch of any vegetable matter that rots on both my vegetable and flower garden all year round. As it decays and enriches the soil, I add more. The labor-saving part of my system is that I never plow, spade, sow a cover crop, harrow, hoe, cultivate, weed, water or spray. I use just one fertilizer (cottonseed or soybean meal), and I don't go through that tortuous business of building a compost pile."