<div dir="ltr">Milo<div><br></div><div>I'm not sure I'd agree that your method is necessarily less toxic. Applying salt to the forest could create problems (salting the earth and all of that). You have developed a chemical solution that kills organisms; just because you bought those chemicals at the grocery store instead of the hardware store doesn't mean they are necessarily safe. </div><div><br></div><div>Mark </div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr">On Fri, Sep 14, 2018 at 7:07 PM Milo Pyne <<a href="mailto:Milo_Pyne@natureserve.org">Milo_Pyne@natureserve.org</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
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<p class="MsoNormal">This is certainly less toxic (and less dangerous to operator and less expensive than commercial alternatives; not naming any names here…).<u></u><u></u></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Works ONLY ON ANNUALS; but it works (I have tested on Microstegium and Kummerowia)<u></u><u></u></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Thr stilt grass will bloom ans seed anyway no matter how low or often you cut it. Unless you pull it. We gave up on cutting - thr only solution is to pull it- or if you really want to whack those old fashioned metal corrugated hand whacker
are efdeceive and oh so satisfying as you swing it like a scythre through the nasties. <u></u><u></u></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Yes, I guess I should have mentioned that I realized that plastic was being spread all over. But I wonder if you have discussed the ramifications of this. I have land that I am trying to restore, and I live in a floodplain. What are
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