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[Gene GeRue <genegerue AT ruralize.com>]

Something for you to put into your thought mix: we would not want to  
kill the trees but it would be highly useful to cause the soil beyond  
their drip line to repel root growth.


On Jun 10, 2008, at 6:11 PM, EarthNSky wrote:

> Well, after looking at the structure on the Wikipedia page, I'd say  
> that
> juglone probably is toxic because of a chain reaction that generates
> free radicals/peroxides as the aromaticity degrades so the key to
> counteracting would be to stop that cycle.  How, I really don't know.
> Sorry to disappoint ya..  At work, we have a similar problem with  
> resins
> at work(resins/sap-same same)---as they age, they start to break down
> and free radicals form, causing a lot of foaming, bubbling-well, it's
> peroxides..so you get that..
> Let me think about it for a while, okay?..no guarantees though, after
> all, it would seem to me that someone would have done this before if  
> it
> were easy.  At work, we have to throw away certain unsaturated/ 
> aromatic
> resins if they are more than 6 months old..that's not promising for
> dealing with free radicals in the soil, but perhaps some kind of
> nematode or bacteria would help?