Re: Round-Up (formerly Killing weeds with fire?)
- To: perennials@mallorn.com
- Subject: Re: Round-Up (formerly Killing weeds with fire?)
- From: m* l*
- Date: Mon, 27 Sep 1999 09:27:00 -0600
At 10:43 AM 9/27/99 -0400, you wrote:
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>Betty Moorman@ZEON
>09/27/99 10:43 AM
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>Early in the season, when we still had RAIN, I painted lots of the leaves
>of the vile potato vine with Round-Up. I used this tedious method of
>application because is has interspersed itself with myrtle. The Round-Up
>did a moderately effective job of killing the potato vine and the myrtle
>seemed to have been spared damage. Now I notice the myrtle in that area
>looks unusually stressed. All the myrtle is stressed from lack of rain but
>this area looks nearer death. Is it possible since the two plants were so
>close together that some of the Round-Up transferred from the potato vine
>roots to the myrtle roots?
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>For the record, when I refer to "myrtle" it can be translated "vinca minor"
>and/or "periwinkle".
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>Betty
>North-central Kentucky
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What is potato vine? I never heard of it, and none of my references to
weeds mention it. Margaret L
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