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[John.Mosko@engelhard.com]

The amounts of salts put into the trees/vines would be very, very small  -
on the order of a gram or two per stump.   Most of the examples are allowed
for foliar spraying at higher rates per acre than one would be adding to
the stumps.

Probably the most benign of the examples would be calcium chloride.

John





Sam Franc <franc@oregonfast.net>@lists.ibiblio.org on 05/03/2002 12:41:19
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I don't like the salt idea.
It is more harmful to the environment that the 2-4-D or Roundup by far.
That is why the highway depts have stopped using salt on the roads anymore.
They found it was harming the environment.
Sam

Gianni's mail wrote:

> Subject: [NAFEX] Poison Ivy Ideas......
>
> I have used with great success water ionizer salt tablets to completely
> eradicate
> PO & PI & P Sumac.....
> For Ivy I use a bagger type lawnmower and in the fall & spring lower the
wheels
> to their lowest
> setting and have at it. This is after I have raked with a ground rake to
try to
> expose the undergrowth vines.
> The vines get uprooted and dislodged and the poison oil stays in the bag
when
> cutting.
> Then I broadcast rock or ionizer salt if I don't think the infestation is
that
> heavy, but where there may still be parent roots, I apply in heavy doses,
> usually a pile right over the suspect area.
> I then wet it down and let the rain do the rest, periodically you may
need to
> replenish the salt
> depending on how effectively or stubborn the target plant/s are but
usually
> within a season, where there
> may have been a very stubborn and sturdy main root, the next season is
either
> mush or a root  in the
> rotting down stage.
> The entire area remains barren until the salt has dissolved and usually
lasts
> for a season.
> Do not use this in direct proximity to specimen or valuable stocks
because
> erosion will also kill anything in the salt's path.
> I did use pressure treated lumber to re-direct erosion near valuable
trees and
> it worked, but I buried the PT
> leaving an inch above grade. This was 5-1/4" wide PTL.
> Salt is present in most soil in smaller amounts and is used to pull iron
from
> heavy water tables and then flushed into the septic,  eventually finding
it's
> way back to the undergound water .....
> A 40 lb bag of ionizer salt is 4 or 5 bucks.
> I dump a half bag on a 30" large tree stump and within a year you have
mush or
> rot or the decaying process has been sped quite nicely.....
>
> Greg, Larry, Lon, & Tom
> "Great job guy's switching us over!" Absolutely painless! Lon is a happy
camper
> now!!!
>
> Donna in TN, what about P.Trifoliata and the dwarfing with the
briar/spikes
> pointing downward, I think.
>
> This weird weather still has peach flowers still on, I have never seen
them hang
> on this long it's been over 2 weeks???? Even rootstocks are hanging on
longer,
> what the hey?
>
> Best to all!
> ~Gianni
> S.NH-Z-5/6
>
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