Drought Proof Ground Covers for Hot, Sunny Slopes
Some great plants here! It would be nice to see more local yards filled up with plants and drought-tolerant plants don't take a lot of water or work!
surfsteve wrote:I like all the salt cedars that are planted around Trona. Every time I see one cut down it makes me sad. I've had lots of troubles with their roots in the past but a good root killer containing copper sulfate twice a year down the pipes seems to do the trick and keep them from being a problem. Supposedly it only kills the roots near the pipes. It doesn't seem to hurt the trees at all. It's also a lot cheaper than cutting them down. The directions say that once the roots in the pipe are killed that they seal off new roots from growing through the pipes. If you order straight copper sulfate from Ebay it's about half the cost of buying root killer and it's the same thing.
panamint_patty wrote:surfsteve wrote:I like all the salt cedars that are planted around Trona. Every time I see one cut down it makes me sad. I've had lots of troubles with their roots in the past but a good root killer containing copper sulfate twice a year down the pipes seems to do the trick and keep them from being a problem. Supposedly it only kills the roots near the pipes. It doesn't seem to hurt the trees at all. It's also a lot cheaper than cutting them down. The directions say that once the roots in the pipe are killed that they seal off new roots from growing through the pipes. If you order straight copper sulfate from Ebay it's about half the cost of buying root killer and it's the same thing.
Salt cedars are better than nothing, but they need to be kept under control. For people living close to the highway and near the lake bed salt cedars aren't a bad choice. But further up the alluvial it's probably best to go with a different type of tree.
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