On Tue, Jun 15, 2004 at 08:25:34AM -0500, Patricia Lane wrote:
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> Hi John,
>
> My mother once suggested salt. I thought to myself that salt couldn't do
> what Round-Up and all the other potent weed killers could do. Well, after
> using every known concoction known to man and still having these persistent
> weeds, I tried plain table salt. It worked! So I went to the feed mill and
> bought a 50# bag of mineral salt. It works too! The plus to this is that
> it won't harm any critters that happen by. HTH
salt kills everything.
The Romans salted the earth when they conquered other
peoples, to poison the land so they couldn't farm on it.
Depending on soil and rainfall it'll wash out anywhere from
pretty soon to never (salt intrusion is a big problem in
agriculture, spoiling thousands of acres a year just here in
California).
So don't use it where you'd like to grow something.
Eric
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