Re: RE: Roundup and other herbicides
- Subject: Re: [sibrob] RE: Roundup and other herbicides
- From: B* H* <c*@cablespeed.com>
- Date: Tue, 20 Jul 2004 20:09:25 -0400
Lots of good comments and experience in this thread. I agree there's an
article here for TSI, Ellen, but I'd like to have a chance to "revise and
extend my remarks" as Congress puts it. Jim, regarding Snapshot 2.5
granular, it is registered for use on landscape and field grown ornamentals
including Iris siberica (so spelled), so I reckon we are legal. But by no
means all herbicides for ornamentals (or other pesticides) specifically
list iris on the label. The closest Lontrel comes is "lilies". I tried to
get a program going at one time to add irises to some of these newer
pesticide labels (we run such a program for USDA at Michigan State
University) but no one in the commercial production business seemed too
interested, so it never got off the ground. Such off-label use isn't a
major concern for EPA or the local Departments of Agriculture I guess, and
a lot of it goes on. Still it would be wise to make it clear in any article
on herbicide use that the label is the law and the comments don't
constitute an official recommendation for use. Also, Harold, solarization
(solar heating of the soil under a transparent cover) often works well in
California with all that hot sun, but not so well in northern latitudes
where the sun's intensity (and fitfulness) mean the soil may never get
heated up far enough to take out the pathogens and weed seeds. Yet one more
reason to move too California I guess. Bob
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