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Re: [permaculture] Busting Up Sidewalks / Invasive Plants
- From: Rick Valley <bamboogrove@cmug.com>
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- Subject: Re: [permaculture] Busting Up Sidewalks / Invasive Plants
- Date: Mon, 09 Sep 2002 09:25:04 -0700
I too have heard Bill's story about busting up concrete with legume seeds. I
think it'd be a good thing to try if you owned some new lava flow on Hawaii.
For busting up sidewalks, I favor two humans, a 5 ft. pry bar and an 8 lb.
sledge. Lower tech than a concrete drill (unless you have the machismo to do
it with a star point and 2lb. hammer) but best of all, you can easily obtain
re-usable building stone or flags for a new walk or patio. ("urbanite") One
person pries up on the slab, the other strikes at the desired breaking
point. And, you get to sing & work together. It's not hard; as Bill Mollison
would say, even women & vegetarians can do it.
>>> Makes a great browse for goats & sheep [Japanese knotweed]
It's a good nectary plant too, and I assume, being as it's a deep-rooted
buckwheat, that it has terrific value in composts. I have used it for top
mulch too. A temporary chicken run will knock it for a loop if you want to
eliminate it, this I have seen.
-Rick
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Re: [permaculture] Guerrilla gardens
, (continued)
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Re: [permaculture] Guerrilla gardens,
Heide Hermary, 09/05/2002
- Re: [permaculture] Guerrilla gardens, mIEKAL aND, 09/06/2002
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Re: [permaculture] Guerrilla gardens,
mangodance, 09/05/2002
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Re: [permaculture] Guerrilla gardens,
Felicity Wright, 09/06/2002
- Re: [permaculture] Guerrilla gardens, mangodance, 09/06/2002
- Re: [permaculture] Guerrilla gardens, living-change, 09/10/2002
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Re: [permaculture] Guerrilla gardens,
Felicity Wright, 09/06/2002
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Re: [permaculture] Guerrilla gardens,
Kirby Fry, 09/06/2002
- Re: [permaculture] Guerrilla gardens, mIEKAL aND, 09/06/2002
- [permaculture] Busting Up Sidewalks / Invasive Plants, Kirby Fry, 09/08/2002
- Re: [permaculture] Busting Up Sidewalks / Invasive Plants, mIEKAL aND, 09/08/2002
- Re: [permaculture] Busting Up Sidewalks / Invasive Plants, Rick Valley, 09/09/2002
- Re: [permaculture] Busting Up Sidewalks / Invasive Plants, mIEKAL aND, 09/09/2002
- Re: [permaculture] Busting Up Sidewalks / Invasive Plants, Kirby Fry, 09/11/2002
- Re: [permaculture] Busting Up Sidewalks / Invasive Plants, Rick Valley, 09/11/2002
- [permaculture] The joy of swinging good tools, Mark, 09/11/2002
- Re: [permaculture] The joy of swinging good tools, Kirby Fry, 09/13/2002
- Re: [permaculture] Busting Up Sidewalks / Invasive Plants, Kirby Fry, 09/13/2002
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Re: [permaculture] Guerrilla gardens,
Heide Hermary, 09/05/2002
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