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Old 23-06-2006, 08:37 PM posted to uk.rec.gardening
Nick Maclaren
 
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Default Glyphosphate accident


In article . com,
"Squeezeweasel" writes:
| Just wanted to share my cack-handedness; I very carefully sprayed all
| the ground elder a few weeks ago, and it's all died back. I was pretty
| sure I'd avoided touching *everything* around it with the Roundup, but
| it looks like I managed to (barely) splash the established honeysuckle
| which was just coming into flower, and doing such a good job of hiding
| our oil tank. It's dying horribly.

Before you compound your idiocy, DON'T assume that you have killed
the honeysuckle. It is quite hard to kill an established perennial
(except for grasses) with one application of glyphosate. If I were
you, I would do nothing about it until next spring (late spring).


Regards,
Nick Maclaren.