SouthBMore.com’s Weed Pulling Competition, June 30th!

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Are you sick and tired of all the weeds all over the streets, sidewalks and alleys in South Baltimore?  So are we at SouthBMore.com!

On Saturday, June 30th we are hoping to bring all of those weeds their worst nightmare!  Sponsored by No Idea Tavern, SouthBMore.com is launching the first Weed Pulling Competition in South Baltimore.

The rules are simple:

- Put together a team of people of any size (and sign-up by emailing Kevin@InceptMM.com)

- Pull as many weeds as you can on June 30th

- Put them in trash bags (which can be provided by SouthBMore.com)

- Call to get your weeds weighed and hauled off to the dump! (410-533-2990)

-Meet at No Idea Tavern at 4pm for the results, and share your weed pulling achievements with your neighbors!

Kevin Lynch will be riding around with a truck, scale and chart weighing bags of weeds and crediting them to particular teams.  The contest ends at 3pm so all the trash can get the the dump.

The team that removes the most pounds of weeds will win a $150 bar tab at No Idea Tavern.  But it doesn’t stop there, the 2nd place team will win a $100 bar tab at No Idea and the 3rd place team will win a $50 tab.  Free food and drinks and a cleaner neighborhood, you can’t beat it!

If you don’t have a lot of time to participate or put together a team, SouthBMore.com is challenging every South Balimore resident, property owner, and business to give us 20 minutes of your time and pull some weeds.  South Baltimore is becoming one of the great urban areas in America, but as long as it is covered in weeds, people will never see it at its finest!

If any additional businesses are interested in sponsoring to the contest, we’d love to add more prizes and raise money for more trash bags, weed killer and more.  We are also looking for additional drivers to help haul the weeds away.

If you are interested in participating, volunteering and/or sponsoring, please contact Kevin Lynch at Kevin@InceptMM.com.

The Official Trailer

 

Teams signed up so far!

Hollins Weedeaters

Citizens of Pigtown

1800 Block of Light St.

SBNA

Patapsco Power Pullers

1800 Block of S. Charles St.

Melissa’s Team

 

 
 
 

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  • sobomeme

    Great motivation, but it is a shame that people don’t just keep up with it…like all the leaves that laided forever after they fell last fall and the allies…back in the day we cleaned our alley every Saturday after the trash trucks ran and scrubbed our marble steps and  hosed our pavments weekly. One problem is Renters feel they pay a landlord so let them do it….I hope you have success with this Kevin and if I did not already have plans that day I would drive in from AACO and lend a hand…I am real good at weed clean up so I know I would get drunk afterwards…lol..

  • Charlie

    Thanks for organizing this beautification project. If any participants are interested in knowing the names of weeds that they pull, volunteers atThe Natural History Society of Maryland would be willing to train several volunteers from the community to learn these skills.  Contact us through our meetup site: http://www.meetup.com/marylandnature .    

    The weed in the trailer was Goosegrass (Eleusine indica).  More about it here on wiki: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eleusine_indica .  Happens to be one weed that sometimes is resistent to Roundup. Not a good idea to Roundup the sites after weeding–at least not if you want a to live in a healthy environment for children and not be adding to the stormwater pollution.  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roundup_(herbicide)  Besides, Roundup is not a pre-emergent herbicide–it will do nothing to prevent new plants from germinating by spraying it on the soil, and up to 24% in sidewalk use often flows right into the street and after rains eventually washes to the Chesapeake Bay.

    I certainly hope this isn’t an annual event because clever teams will avoid weeding their neighborhood all year–so to have the largest potential weed stock for the competition!

    • http://www.facebook.com/people/Kevin-Lynch/1259877595 Kevin Lynch

      Thanks for the info.  We are hoping the project will make the neighborhood so much cleaner that everyone will want to keep it that way, as opposed to saving weeds for a contest.  

  • http://www.facebook.com/ethangiffin Ethan Giffin

    I spray Round Up and hose down my alley several times a year…