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Lucky, this is a public forum !    It makes me nervious enough to see people 
posting statements that they are breaking a commonly ignored federal law 
(herbicides must be used according to label), but please avoid telling 
everyone the downright scary stuff like this !

Best wishes for your weed control methods, but please don't get caught !

tc


----Original Message Follows----
From: Lucky Pittman <lucky.pittman@murraystate.edu>
Reply-To: North American Fruit Explorers <nafex@lists.ibiblio.org>
To: North American Fruit Explorers <nafex@lists.ibiblio.org>
Subject: Re: [NAFEX] Note on an invasive plant
Date: Sat, 30 Aug 2003 17:08:25 -0500

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

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