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Dear All, June 9, 2014
I see some glysophate salesman has struck the mother lode. Using it to
control Glossy Buckthorn on 1,100 acres by pulling out seedlings and
painting glysophate on cut stumps of larger growth. At 1/2 acre per Sunday
it will take 2200 Sundays or 42 years. Meanwhile birds in fruit season can
sow 1,100 acres by noon. And if the soil has been disturbed by pulling up
seedlings then the take should be very good.
http://thechronicleherald.ca/novascotia/1213245-glossy-buckthorn-feels-the-wrath-of-volunteers-in-pugwash-estuary
And all this enthusiastic trampling will no doubt inflict damage on the
native plants that they intend to protect.
When one of these are cut they have to be hung upside down to prevent the
cut ends from rooting; according to this article.
They must be dealing with a very different strain of Glossy Buckthorn
than the one I know. A road that I cut through some dense Buckthorn
thickets, just after fruit maturity when they are most vulnerable, in 2002
has not regrown. If left alone they will eventually flop over and perish.
Yours truly, Dave Webster, Kentville
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