On Friday, October 22, 2004 at 10:33:44 AM UTC+10, John Savage wrote:
Trish Brown <kawb...@ozemail.com.au> writes:
FWIW, my DS was chucking out his turpentine and linseed oil (he
paints...) on the front path (ancient sandstone blocks with soil in the >cracks and *lots* of grass and weeds growing there). *All* the weeds
died and took forever to come back again! I don't know whether it was
the turps, the linseed oil or the mixture of both, but it sure worked a >treat!
Mineral turps is a useful weedkiller, and is best applied to the foliage
as a spray. However, turps is a solvent for rubber and common plastics,
so if you try to spray it from a plastic laundry sprayer the sprayer will last only a few minutes and may within a few days dissolve. If you look around, you can still buy what old timers will recognize as the old style "bike-pump" fly sprayers with a tin can attached: and no plastic
components whatever. (Okay, maybe the modern decorative paint is plastic paint.) It might be worth while dismantling the pump to check that the washers on yours are not plastic, just in case, though.
I'd add my usual precautions about not smoking in the area during or
after spraying with turpentine ...... -==:-[]
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