0tterbot wrote:
"Larry" wrote in message
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I remember now I used kerosene and salt not vinegar. I watched the
gardening
australia program so maybe got it wrong as to the ingredients! Colin
Campbell went through a few that day. I might get the jar out strain it
add
vinegar and plonk the kero back in. I did paint the kero on a few things
and
they did curl up their toes.

i'd have assumed that kero would kill plants, even without salt...(?) i
don't want to use kero, though!!!! salt will also kill plants too, but i
think you'd make a much bigger problem than you started with, once the soil
was salty. also, it would take ages to even work, presumably. i'm kind of
wondering what extra benefit the salt confers... does anyone know?
kylie


Years ago when my son was at art school, we had a sudden wholesale death
of the awful weeds that kept growing up between the sandstone cobbles of
our front path. What could be doing it???? Those weeds were awful
stubborn and included a good old Scotch Thistle, which I defy anyone to
pull up with his hands.

Turns out, sonny-boy had been emptying his turps-and-linseed-oil mix
onto them when he'd finished painting. This worked like *mad* and we
didn't have a recurrence for years and years. They're back now, though.
And sonny-boy doesn't paint any more. Sigh... Pass the Zero...

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Trish Brown {|:-}

Newcastle, NSW, Australia