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[Chris Garriss <cgarriss@garriss.net>]

I'm in NC, this made the news all around the state - mostly broadcast.  I should have thought to find and forward a print link.

Spray, over-spray and drift are increasingly becoming topics as power companies have migrated from manual removal / mowing to chemical application.

On Wed, Jul 28, 2010 at 8:44 AM, William C. Garthright <billg@inebraska.com> wrote:

Here's a story in the Los Angeles Times about a 400-year-old grapevine accidentally sprayed with weedkiller:

http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/nation/la-na-grapevine-20100726,0,5537336.story

or

http://tinyurl.com/28hnhno

I thought it might be of interest here. Don't worry. It has a happy ending. :-)

I guess what interested me most is just that a 400-year-old vine is still producing grapes.

Bill
Lincoln, NE (zone 5)

http://garthright.blogspot.com/

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