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Default DIY Weed Killer (Effective Stuff)


"fred" wrote in message ...
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"fred" wrote in message ...

Thanks for the extra info, it seems if used carefully it is not as bad
as
I thought. I was a bit worried too about leeching and spread into
adjoining areas and plan to still keep it off banks above planted
borders.


I know someone who used several tubs of sodium chlorate that was mixed to
a
very high concentration (ie just enought water to dissolve the stuff) and
was able to kill his neighbours conifers without damaging his own copper
beech trees that stood a few feet away. You need the ground soil to be
damp,
make some holes around the conifer's trunk using 15mm copper and then pour
in the mixture.

That's a surprise, thanks for the info.

BTW, was it a feud or a favour?


Feud.

It took a couple of months for the trees to turn start turning brown. They
conifers were finally dead in six months.

Adam