Re: Bio-control for dandelions expected soon

**"* C* <y*@ispnet.ca>**

Do you mean to say he actually poured gasoline on his dandelions? That is 
scary and way, way more harmful than 2,4-D.

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Dan Clost" <dan.clost@sympatico.ca>
To: "Garden Writers -- GWL -- The Garden Writers Forum" 
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Sent: Monday, May 19, 2008 8:31 PM
Subject: Re: [GWL] Bio-control for dandelions expected soon

> 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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