Vinegar for weeds
Jadeboy48@aol.com (Fri, 05 Apr 2013 17:14:50 PDT)

To Leo Martin, You know as well as I that if you have enough money and the
right connections (say through a Botanic Garden) there is no plant that is
unobtainable. It may be hard to find but depending on a person's. cash
outlay anything can be bought. I know of a case where a gardener had a huge pot
of peyote cactus. He was not a member of the Native American Church (
which can possess this plant), it is a Federal Crime to grow and yet there it
was. I would consider the grower quite talented and the huge clump was grow
to perfection. This proves that under the right conditions you can get
anything. I should add, because this cactus is being rapidly destroyed I think
the grower was doing a good service helping to preserve this plant. If you
don't care to give or sell plant material why don't you consider sending
members to sources so they can get something they want. I really feel that
the members are not gullible. They are just looking for a source for some
hard to find plant. By the way my huge variegated Cycas revoluta, I think the
parent was from Okinawa,is doing very well in our growing conditions in
Phoenix,trunk about 6 inches thick. Now this is rather rare but it is possible
to find a seller-Russ

In a message dated 4/5/2013 8:08:46 A.M. Pacific Daylight Time,
silkie@frontiernet.net writes:

With grasses I would think the idea would be the younger the better so they
have not had time to develop a large root base - which takes more vinegar.
In dealing with Whitetop, the extension agent said if one is going to
spray,
they need to time the spraying to when the plant is winding down for the
season and is taking food stores back down to the roots . Otherwise all
you
would be doing was burning the tops. Yes that could serve to set the plant
back and enough of it might kill the plant, but it wouldn't happen
directly.
So, this line of thinking appears to agree with what you were taught. It
does make sense. The risk I see is that if you are a bit too late with the
herbicide, you have allowed for another year's seed set, which is what
tends
to happen with this method and Whitetop.

Colleen

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On Behalf Of J. Denys Bourque
Sent: Thursday, April 04, 2013 11:01 AM
To: Pacific Bulb Society
Subject: Re: [pbs] Vinegar for weeds

Dell writes that his vinegar potion only kills the tops of undesired
plants...

On this, long ago in our
"Kill-raspberries-et-al.-that-competes-against-spruce-&-fir" course in
Forest Management @ UNB, Canada, we were instilled with the notion that
"weeds" are best dealt with near the end of the growing season when they
have used up all their resources.

Perhaps timing is a concern here.

J. Denys Bourque
Saint-Jacques, NB CANADA

(Artemesia sp), and it only kills the tops. New growth returns from the
roots in no time.

vinegar on weeds.

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