GardenBanter.co.uk - Best alternative to Sodium Chlorate?

Martin wrote:
On 04/06/10 10:28, Martin Brown wrote:
On 03/06/2010 17:44, Janet Tweedy wrote:
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"Every couple of months" seems very frequent to me. I've got our
gravel pretty well dosed with sodium chlorate and it seems to be
fairly inhospitable to new growth. The trouble with using just
glyphosate is that it has virtually no residual effect so (as you
describe) isn't very long lasting.

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Chris Green

Isn't Pathclear a season long weed suppressant?

It was in the good old days when it contained a potent and persistent
active ingredient called Simazine. These days it is pretty
ineffectual like and over priced knock down weedkiller. Again you
can blame the EU.

You can also "blame" DEFRA. Don't let the Daily Mail drive your image
of EU/DEFRA scientists.

It's all part of the same system; the provincial governments are now
basically incorporated into the federal government, in the same way as local
councils are basically just an arm of the provincial government. Each
province's bureaucracies are a local arm of the federal one. You can't draw
a distinction.

The major problem with the corporatist/technocratic system that has
developed over the past decades is its unaccountability, which is there by
design. A law is passed because some group of
scientists/academics/activists/crats decided it should be passed; it's hard
to tell where the laws have come from and there is little that citizens can
do to stop them unless they can organise an activist group- a major
undertaking- *and* get it accepted into the technocratic system such that
its voice can actually be heard. Since getting accepted basically means
agreeing with the system itself, it is hard for contrary voices to have any
effect.

You don't have to be a Daily Mail reader to disapprove of an undemocratic,
unaccountable political system. The fact that the 'crats may believe they
are making the right decisions on behalf of us little people doesn't make
that the right way to run a continent.

Ian