Re: CULT: Herbicidal Drift
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- Subject: Re: CULT: Herbicidal Drift
- From: "* I* J* <j*@ix.netcom.com>
- Date: Thu, 4 Jun 1998 22:53:23 -0600 (MDT)
SOkase@aol.com wrote:
>
> >From the way the stalks and flowers look I would guess that the culprit is
> Round Up. My neighbor and I are good friends and in the past when she was
> going to spray she would tell me in advance and I would put tarping up to
> avoid such an incident.
Sterling,
If it is roundup I would definitely hose them off. The more of the chemical
you can prevent from being transported (there is a more technical word for it
but I can't remember it at the moment) to the root system, the better. If I
remember correctly several iris-listers have had accidental roundup drift on
to their beds (sometimes self induced...) and mostly everything has survived.
John | "There be dragons here"
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