Re: Vinegar: a systemic herbicide?


In article <Granity.2383458@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>,
Granity <Granity.2383458@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes:
|> Zhang DaWei;776089 Wrote:
|> > -
|> > [...] You shouldn't take so much notice of the New
|> > Age Merkins -
|> >
|> > Not a comment to be made in the company of a group of wig makers, I
|> > presume...
|>
|> Why should the use of vinegar as a weed killer be considered organic?
|> It's a chemical just as much as Glyphosate or NPK fertiliser is, just
|> because you put it on your chips doesn't make it organic.

Er, not quite. Vinegar isn't a simple chemical - acetic acid is.
More importantly, there are differences between the chemicals that
occur naturally in the biosphere, where there are bacteria adapted
to breaking them down, and the entirely artificial ones, which are
not always biodegradable.

The genuine concerns about glyphosate are that its degradation
products (i.e. that which it breaks down into) and the adjuncts
used in Roundup may not be fully biodegradable. I have seen very
little data on this, either way.


Regards,
Nick Maclaren.
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