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[mIEKAL aND <dtv@mwt.net>]

If the thought of using roundup makes you cringe you could always 
borrow someone's pig & create a temporary pen around the area.  
Invasives will be gone, the area will be nicely manured, & the 
microfauna in your soil will still be alive.

mIEKAL


On Friday, August 29, 2003, at 05:15 PM, W3cmp@aol.com wrote:

> Joyce:
>      I suggest you get some Roundup at the strongest concentration you 
> can.
> When the sprouts come up cut them off just below the first set of 
> leaves and
> paint the top interior of the remaining shoot stem with a Q-tip dipped 
> in the
> Roundup.  If you can get some insulin needles you can inject it in the 
> shoot or
> the roots that you can uncover.  I've done that with very large poison 
> ivy
> vines and it seems to work very well.  Chris Patterson