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On Wed, 3 Mar 2004 21:32:59 GMT, Jaques d'Alltrades
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I used to buy horticultural sodium chlorate (dirty pink, it was) for
1/6d a pound.

I used to buy beer at 1/- a pint.

But it didn't kill weeds. (Boom-boom!)

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On Thu, 4 Mar 2004 11:44:17 GMT, Jaques d'Alltrades
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On Wed, 3 Mar 2004 21:32:59 GMT, Jaques d'Alltrades
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I used to buy horticultural sodium chlorate (dirty pink, it was) for
1/6d a pound.

I used to buy beer at 1/- a pint.

But it didn't kill weeds. (Boom-boom!)

Simonds' beer offered free brewers droop with every pint.
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On Wed, 3 Mar 2004 21:32:59 GMT, Jaques d'Alltrades
wrote:


I used to buy horticultural sodium chlorate (dirty pink, it was) for
1/6d a pound.

I used to buy beer at 1/- a pint.

But it didn't kill weeds. (Boom-boom!)

--
Rusty
Open the creaking gate to make a horrid.squeak, then lower the foobar.
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The message
from martin contains these words:
On Wed, 3 Mar 2004 21:32:59 GMT, Jaques d'Alltrades
wrote:


I used to buy horticultural sodium chlorate (dirty pink, it was) for
1/6d a pound.

I used to buy beer at 1/- a pint.

But it didn't kill weeds. (Boom-boom!)

--
Rusty
Open the creaking gate to make a horrid.squeak, then lower the foobar.
http://www.users.zetnet.co.uk/hi-fi/

On Thu, 4 Mar 2004 11:44:17 GMT, Jaques d'Alltrades
wrote:

The message
from martin contains these words:
On Wed, 3 Mar 2004 21:32:59 GMT, Jaques d'Alltrades
wrote:


I used to buy horticultural sodium chlorate (dirty pink, it was) for
1/6d a pound.

I used to buy beer at 1/- a pint.

But it didn't kill weeds. (Boom-boom!)

Simonds' beer offered free brewers droop with every pint.
--

Knowledge is knowing a tomato is a fruit;
Wisdom is not putting it in a fruit salad

In article ,
Jaques d'Alltrades writes:
| The message
| from martin contains these words:
| On Wed, 3 Mar 2004 21:32:59 GMT, Jaques d'Alltrades
| wrote:
|
| I used to buy horticultural sodium chlorate (dirty pink, it was) for
| 1/6d a pound.
|
| I used to buy beer at 1/- a pint.
|
| But it didn't kill weeds. (Boom-boom!)

Some of it (e.g. Watney's Gaslight) didn't make you drunk before
your belly filled up, either.

I heard rumours that a couple of brands were as cheap as they were
because the brewery wasn't taxed on them.


Regards,
Nick Maclaren.

In article ,
Jaques d'Alltrades writes:
| The message
| from martin contains these words:
| On Wed, 3 Mar 2004 21:32:59 GMT, Jaques d'Alltrades
| wrote:
|
| I used to buy horticultural sodium chlorate (dirty pink, it was) for
| 1/6d a pound.
|
| I used to buy beer at 1/- a pint.
|
| But it didn't kill weeds. (Boom-boom!)

Some of it (e.g. Watney's Gaslight) didn't make you drunk before
your belly filled up, either.

I heard rumours that a couple of brands were as cheap as they were
because the brewery wasn't taxed on them.


Regards,
Nick Maclaren.

In article ,
Jaques d'Alltrades writes:
| The message
| from martin contains these words:
| On Wed, 3 Mar 2004 21:32:59 GMT, Jaques d'Alltrades
| wrote:
|
| I used to buy horticultural sodium chlorate (dirty pink, it was) for
| 1/6d a pound.
|
| I used to buy beer at 1/- a pint.
|
| But it didn't kill weeds. (Boom-boom!)

Some of it (e.g. Watney's Gaslight) didn't make you drunk before
your belly filled up, either.

I heard rumours that a couple of brands were as cheap as they were
because the brewery wasn't taxed on them.


Regards,
Nick Maclaren.

In article ,
Jaques d'Alltrades writes:
| The message
| from martin contains these words:
| On Wed, 3 Mar 2004 21:32:59 GMT, Jaques d'Alltrades
| wrote:
|
| I used to buy horticultural sodium chlorate (dirty pink, it was) for
| 1/6d a pound.
|
| I used to buy beer at 1/- a pint.
|
| But it didn't kill weeds. (Boom-boom!)

Some of it (e.g. Watney's Gaslight) didn't make you drunk before
your belly filled up, either.

I heard rumours that a couple of brands were as cheap as they were
because the brewery wasn't taxed on them.


Regards,
Nick Maclaren.

In article ,
Jaques d'Alltrades writes:
| The message
| from martin contains these words:
| On Wed, 3 Mar 2004 21:32:59 GMT, Jaques d'Alltrades
| wrote:
|
| I used to buy horticultural sodium chlorate (dirty pink, it was) for
| 1/6d a pound.
|
| I used to buy beer at 1/- a pint.
|
| But it didn't kill weeds. (Boom-boom!)

Some of it (e.g. Watney's Gaslight) didn't make you drunk before
your belly filled up, either.

I heard rumours that a couple of brands were as cheap as they were
because the brewery wasn't taxed on them.


Regards,
Nick Maclaren.

In article , Jane Ransom writes:
In article , Keith Dancey
writes

Has anyone any experience of
using sodium chlorate against horsetail? It would help if we could get
some "hands-on" feedback... I have never dared use it.

No, but a few years back someone posted here that he had eradicated his
by continually cutting it back over a period of about 5 years. He was
pretty vicious with it, never letting the foliage see the light of day.


Hmmmm... been cutting mine for over ten years. The thing is, you cannot
cut what you cannot see, and if you cannot see it, it cannot have seen the
light of day.

Judging from the other comments, the patio is more in danger than the
horsetail:-(

Has the OP ever thought of moving:-}


Cheers,

keith, author of How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Started to Love Horsetail




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The message
from martin contains these words:

Simonds' beer offered free brewers droop with every pint.

Oh. It causes weeds, then?

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Rusty
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In article , Jane Ransom writes:
In article , Keith Dancey
writes

Has anyone any experience of
using sodium chlorate against horsetail? It would help if we could get
some "hands-on" feedback... I have never dared use it.

No, but a few years back someone posted here that he had eradicated his
by continually cutting it back over a period of about 5 years. He was
pretty vicious with it, never letting the foliage see the light of day.


Hmmmm... been cutting mine for over ten years. The thing is, you cannot
cut what you cannot see, and if you cannot see it, it cannot have seen the
light of day.

Judging from the other comments, the patio is more in danger than the
horsetail:-(

Has the OP ever thought of moving:-}


Cheers,

keith, author of How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Started to Love Horsetail




---
Iraq: 5 thousand million pounds, 60 lives, and counting...
The Politicians will now seek to blame the Spooks.

The message
from (Nick Maclaren) contains these words:

| I used to buy beer at 1/- a pint.
|
| But it didn't kill weeds. (Boom-boom!)

Some of it (e.g. Watney's Gaslight) didn't make you drunk before
your belly filled up, either.

Never heard of that one, but then, I have never considered Watney's even
remotely drinkable.

I heard rumours that a couple of brands were as cheap as they were
because the brewery wasn't taxed on them.

Do you mean the brewery didn't have to pay booze levy because the
content was less than (IIRC) about 2° Proof?

Red Barrel died because Which? Magazine said that if it had been half a
degree less it 'could have been sold over sweetshop counters to
children'.

But that's not really a criterion of quality - I make a very pleasant
beer (boys' beer) which is even weaker than that: two pounds of malt and
four ounces of hops to five gallons of brew.

--
Rusty
Open the creaking gate to make a horrid.squeak, then lower the foobar.
http://www.users.zetnet.co.uk/hi-fi/

The message
from (Nick Maclaren) contains these words:

| I used to buy beer at 1/- a pint.
|
| But it didn't kill weeds. (Boom-boom!)

Some of it (e.g. Watney's Gaslight) didn't make you drunk before
your belly filled up, either.

Never heard of that one, but then, I have never considered Watney's even
remotely drinkable.

I heard rumours that a couple of brands were as cheap as they were
because the brewery wasn't taxed on them.

Do you mean the brewery didn't have to pay booze levy because the
content was less than (IIRC) about 2° Proof?

Red Barrel died because Which? Magazine said that if it had been half a
degree less it 'could have been sold over sweetshop counters to
children'.

But that's not really a criterion of quality - I make a very pleasant
beer (boys' beer) which is even weaker than that: two pounds of malt and
four ounces of hops to five gallons of brew.

--
Rusty
Open the creaking gate to make a horrid.squeak, then lower the foobar.
http://www.users.zetnet.co.uk/hi-fi/