[RWG] Natural herbicides makes projects cheaper, quicker and easier

[Craig Dremann - Redwood City Seed Company]

Dear Wayne and All,

Thanks for your email.

For tens of thousands of years, humans have been using plants for
different purposes--like medicinal plants for example--without having a
single clue what the active ingredients were.

All people had to do in ancient times,  was to correctly identify the
plant, know what part was active, and know the dosage, to cure whatever
ills that plant was effective against.

That is exactly what I am suggesting about the natural herbicides produced
by the native plants.  Know which plant is active, what part of the plant
is active, and what is the dosage?

I have been writing to these lists about the natural native plant
herbicides, with the hope that this knowledge could help all of our weed
management and/or restoration projects, to try this concept and maybe make
your projects much, much easier.

Especially projects that absolutely must succeed--like environmental 
mitigation projects, or planting fire resistant local natives in the Great
Basin in the place of the flammable weeds, or any project where a huge
amount of time, effort or expense has already been spent, without the
desired results.

That is why if anyone has a dryland weeding or restoration project that is
going to take more than a few days to complete, or if you are spending
more than a few thousand dollars--if you try some small scale test plots
in the next month or two, you might get some remarkable results that you
could use on a larger scale next spring.

At http://www.ecoseeds.com/standards.html I give some ideas of how to
evaluate a large scale project, so you can quickly invent the methods you
need, to complete the project in the shortest time possible.

Sincerely,  Craig Dremann (650) 325-7333