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["Robert C. Mullins" <mullins@gaelicmysts.com>]

Alan:

We have super-weeds here, but instead of newspaper, I use thick 
cardboard and mulch, it does a remarkable job.  So Round-Up is a pretty 
useless commodity here at my farm as well.

I believe there is room for a 'little' green in everyones life, my 
biggest complaint is the extortion that comes about by researchers 
experiments.  $60 for a 55 gallon barrel to catch rain in?  Good grief.  
They seem to be worse than the capitalists.  ;)
(incidentally I can get the same 55 gallon barrel for six bucks at a 
coop a few miles from the farm.)

--
Robert C. Mullins M.S. IT
GaelicMysts, Owner
Clarksville, Ar
Zone 8a
http://wildcraft.gaelicmysts.com



Alan Haigh wrote:
> We are in the middle of the growing season when every day the fruit 
> trees are adding a new chapter to the story of this years harvest.  
> Isn't this the important subject matter of this list?
>  
> I don't find Roundup to be an important tool in my work shed for the 
> non-commercial orchards that I manage.  Commercial growers often use 
> it routinely but for the home orchardist a few sheets of newspaper 
> covered with mulch is a generally more satisfactory solution to weed 
> control in my experience.
>  
> These lengthy discussions of ecology and environmentalism are 
> important but in my opinion belong in another forum.  Maybe in 
> mid-winter when there's not so much going on we can throw one of these 
> logs on the fire but there's plenty of better fuel to burn right now.
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