On Tue, 5 Aug 2003 08:06:25 +0100, "David Hill"
wrote:

"...... It's not as innocuous as you make it sound........."

I for one have never said that any chemical is innocuous.......They should
ALL be treated with care.

But......... if you can just apply to the individual weed and not dose the
surrounding plants and the ground around then it makes sense.

To me chemicals are a way of last resort.

I understand that. What we need to be more aware of is that at one time I was
and currently you are in the industry. People who know about the grave dangers
of pesticides have superior knowledge than the average homeowner who thinks more
is better.

I'm not trying to put anyone down. But inform people who are novice or hobby
gardeners who hear these unbelievable commercials from Round Up and Bug B Gone
and how great they are...etc. At one time, Monsanto had such a huge set of
balls to go as far and say, on a television commercial, "Round Up, save as table
salt..." The EPA jumped on that and in a weeks time a judge deemed it false or
misleading and they had to can all their silly commercials...including the one
where the weeds talked and were acting like they were mobsters, and such. I
doubt you have those commercials in the UK.

I think you can see where I'm going with this. Not meant to offend, rather to
inform.

Victoria