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Posted by
jamalia none (
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Sat, Feb 9, 13 at 11:29
| when kerosene is used as herbicide, it kills all vegetables except parsley..
why?
thanks alot |
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RE: kerosene as herbicide
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When any petroleum product is sprayed on any plant it will tend to kill that plant becasue it interferes with the plants ability to photosynthesize. This is why dormant oil products are supposed to only be sprayed before a plants foliage appears.
Kerosene is not an acceptable herbicide whether organic or not. |
RE: kerosene as herbicide
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| I've never heard of kerosene used as an herbicide, but I am on the planet because of kerosene used as a pesticide. My grandfather used kerosene for body lice the evening before he and his friends were to ride the cable car at Niagra Falls. It made him so irritated and miserable he was unable to fall asleep until dawn. When it was time to leave for the cable car ride, his friends couldn't wake him, so they missed the scheduled cable car ride, during which the cable broke and everyone onboard was killed. Yay for kerosene! |
RE: kerosene as herbicide
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| Kerosene is used (not as much anymore) as a carrier for herbicide/pesticides in a similar purpose as horticultural oils for movement/sticking the carried herbicide/pesticide. It's caused some people to use kerosene as an actual weed killer by itself...which can work...but it's not the best way to smother a plant to death. It can persist in soil for quite a while. |
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- Posted by ericwi Dane County WI (My Page) on
Sun, Feb 10, 13 at 18:14
| Years ago I spent a summer working with a landscaper who would use gasoline to kill weeds growing up through sidewalk cracks, if he had gasoline nearby, and he did not feel like walking over to the truck to grab the weed-killer. So, yeah, I can see how kerosene would kill plants, but the question still remains, how does parsley resist a dose of kerosene, and keep on growing? |
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| A couple of generations back rural persons used Kerosene for many things. My grandparents would spray it on poison ivy and set fire to it. In retrospect, I wounder if the vapors were not worse than the ivy. |
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| I don't understand what any of this has to do with organic gardening. |
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- Posted by ericwi Dane County WI (My Page) on
Mon, Feb 11, 13 at 15:56
| Kerosene is definitely an organic chemical, but I don't think it can be applied to plants or soil in an organic garden. Even so, I am curious as to why parsley would have an unusual ability to withstand being doused with kerosene. |
RE: kerosene as herbicide
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| Parsley has a fleshy tap root. So losing its top growth will only set back growth for a short time. The root can resprout to produce more top growth. |
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- Posted by ericwi Dane County WI (My Page) on
Tue, Feb 12, 13 at 9:39
| Thanks Jean001a. So you are saying the root survives the kerosene dousing, and the plant recovers eventually. That may be true. I have used 5% white vinegar, standard grocery store vinegar, to kill dandelions, successfully. These also have a large & fleshy tap root. But 5% vinegar is 95% water, it goes down into the ground very readily, and no doubt it is taken up by the roots easily. So kerosene and 5% white vinegar are not equivalent, as weedkillers. |
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