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mia

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4. Roundup causes plants to die? It was designed to kill weeds - maybe way back then.

Reply to Botany (Reply #1)

Tue Jan 31, 2012, 11:21 PM

Jan 2012

My experience with Round-Up was to kill the weeds that surrounded avocado seedlings in a South Florida grove in the mid-eighties.
So, Botany, just how much do you know or care about plants?

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