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Re: Lawn Substitutes

Hi Jerry
Actually roundup is the only way to get rid of it on any sizable
scale--unless you could hire hundreds of workers to get after it every day
for many years, in a place like Berkeley.  We are very PC here, often
thoughtlessly.
Judy Houck

At 08:29 AM 5/30/97 -0800, Jerry  Heverly wrote:
>>St. Aug. grass as we have in the SF Bay Area
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>>It is found everywhere here.  I have seen it run up trees and power poles.
>>These plants are no bargain.
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>ffect.
>>Judy Houck
>>Berkeley CA
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>        It should be added that kikuyu is very common in the city of
>Berkeley because of an edict by the city council many years ago banning the
>use of any pesticide by city workers.  More than any other aspect of the
>law the inabililty of city workers to abate kikuyu with glyphosate led to a
>great deal discontent on the part of many of the city employees who found
>that they could do nothing to stop this pest from overrunning city
>parks(particularly in the poorer parts of town on the west side).  I do not
>mean to inspire a debate about the safety of glyphosate or pesticides in
>general I merely wish to point out the real consequences for human and
>plant welfare of such decisions.  Kikuyu is very rare in the surrounding
>suburbs where herbicides control it.
>Jerry Heverly, Oakland, CA
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