"Cereoid-UR12-" wrote in message
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Use fertilizer instead of salt.


Good suggestion! I regularly buy a few extra bags of 13-13-13 in the fall
and store them for the times I need a deicer on my north facing driveway.
The fertilizer melts the ice, although the run-off does leave streaks of
extremely green grass in the yard in the spring, but no shrubs, trees, or
grass are killed.

John