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From: nemo@rochester.UUCP (Wolfe)
Newsgroups: net.garden
Subject: Re: salt as sterilizing agent
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Date: Thu, 17-Oct-85 09:36:58 EDT
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Posted: Thu Oct 17 09:36:58 1985
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> I have heard from an old farmer that salt will kill just about
> anything you want.  Right now I am trying it on some real persistant
> patch of bermuda grass. 

I have reservations about using salt as an herbicide.  The main one is 
that, while it is probably not an immediate danger to wildlife like some
organic chemicals are, it does not decompose and will eventually reach
the ground water below.  Sure, municipalities dump tons of salt on the
roads every year, and that bugs me too, but why should you contribute to
the problem?  And it is a problem, one that we are going to have to face
squarely in the next twenty years or so.  Water is a precious resource.
Nemo

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