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[Lucky Pittman <lucky.pittman@murraystate.edu>]

At 03:23 AM 8/30/2003 -0500, you wrote:
>  I am of the more
> organic persuasion, and the idea of Round-Up does indeed make me cringe,
> or worse. If I ever did concider using round-up, the idea of injecting it
> directly into the problem plant is the best one I have heard.

While I'm not strictly organic, I don't  use chemical herbicides
willy-nilly.  But, faced with an Ailanthus - or, in my case, thorny
honeylocust, black locust(in undesirable locations), sweetgum(in any
location), or the ubiquitous hackberry, I have no reservations about
using Brush-B-Gon or Tordon as a stump treatment to ensure those
dastardly things don't re-sprout.   Compared to those two,
Roundup is pretty innocuous, though I still wonder how effective it is,
in comparison, when used as a stump treatment.
I even have a little pint can of Agent Orange that I'm holding back in
reserve for any Ailanthus or Liquidambar that raise their ugly heads
around here.

Lucky