Re: Bio-control for dandelions expected soon

**"* C* <d*@sympatico.ca>**

There may be an antipathy towards slaying the noble dandelion held by many 
of the members on this list.

I suggest, for the moment, that is neither here nor there.

There is a bigger picture to look at- suburban Canada.(Or any other place 
where such legislation is enacted.) Those denizens are going to kill the 
dandelion. The proposed Ontario legislation will remove the simplest way for 
them to that by changing weed and feed fertilisers to just feed.
In Halifax, post-ban, one fellow used gasoline as a herbicide. It is quite 
effective.  One shudders to think what those upper Canadians might come up 
with.

So this granular bio-cide is welcomed by me.

For those of you who have checked out the Sarritor website, Dr. Alan Watson 
is, indeed, the main guy. For those of you who have ever worked as graduate 
students, you might be interested to know that Myron and Ina Teschler were 
the McGill graduate students who explained it all to a group of eager Guelph 
"weedologists" in 1998. They said they were about 10 years away from turning 
the deal into a commercially viable enterprise.

Dan
The Good Earth Columnist
Dan Clost's Greenscapes
GWA Member 

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