Whats good for clearing weeds/grass?

[Aubrey]

Ortho  Max  

It killed the creeping charlie in my lawn, nothing else I have found does that. It left the grass alone and got rid of the crab grass and all the clover type stuff. The dandelions screamed and ran away.

[Ripsnort]

Originally posted by Silat
Roundup to KILL

Pre emergents I have and do use on my lot. I DONT HAVE GRASS so choose wisely:) :

Preen - 3 months lasting power

http://www.preen.com/newpreen/prdpreenweed/index.jsp

Casoron - Year or more

Use wisely ....................

I use round up only on green stuff too, works best in sunlight, with no water for at least 24 hours.

Casoron on the gravel areas too, but I use about half dosage as this stuff is not good for humans, but DAMN it works well.  Safe around flower beds, bushes, etc. too.

[Casca]

Several years ago a load was brewed in a two gallon pump up spray consisting of:

1. A generous teaspoon of Ally (small grain herbicide labled rate 1/10 of an oz. per acre, about what you can fit in a  22 Long Rifle casing).

2.  Dicamba at around a 12 ounce rate.

3.  2,4D Ester about 3 pounds/acre.

4.  A little Miracle Gro (what the heck).

5.  Four drops of dish detergent as a surfactant.

This was a smoky bellybutton load.  It was Agent Orange on crack. The spots that were sprayed looked like the moon for two years after which there were sparse green shoots.  A 30 foot tall willow tree was killed by spraying a root.  My wife's eyebrow still twitches a little whenever the subject comes up.  This would address your needs but is not legal strictly speaking.  The good thing is that the whole package has extremely low mammalian toxicity.  Make sure you don't have any runoff onto anything you like.

[rpm]

Roundup. Safe and effective.

[spitfiremkv]

Slip a rumour to the FBI that you are growing hemp.

[VOR]

Be careful with roundup! I got the bright Tim Allen idea of spraying the stuff all along my fenceline and around the house so I wouldn't have to weedeat anymore. A week later, it looked like someone had dropped agent orange in about a 18 inch swath everywhere I'd sprayed. Apparently, the stuff spreads pretty well from plant to plant.

[Torque]

you can use a vinegar/citric acid solution to kill the weeds and have your kids play on it the next day. i'd never use roundup or any other chemical herbicide for that matter, after reading the msds sheets on that stuff.

[Silat]

Originally posted by Ripsnort
I use round up only on green stuff too, works best in sunlight, with no water for at least 24 hours.

Casoron on the gravel areas too, but I use about half dosage as this stuff is not good for humans, but DAMN it works well.  Safe around flower beds, bushes, etc. too.

I hate it when the HUMANS eat off my property:)

[rpm]

Originally posted by VOR
Be careful with roundup! I got the bright Tim Allen idea of spraying the stuff all along my fenceline and around the house so I wouldn't have to weedeat anymore. A week later, it looked like someone had dropped agent orange in about a 18 inch swath everywhere I'd sprayed. Apparently, the stuff spreads pretty well from plant to plant.

Yeah, it kills grass, too. It says so right on the label.

[Ripsnort]

Originally posted by Torque
you can use a vinegar/citric acid solution to kill the weeds and have your kids play on it the next day. i'd never use roundup or any other chemical herbicide for that matter, after reading the msds sheets on that stuff.

If you use it correctly, its as dangerous as any herbicide. Use it when its sunny out, quick shot, no rain for 24 hours.  Its literally absorbed 100% by the plant's roots (via the leaves) or evaporation. Nothing is left behind in the soil. You can plant where you used it 24 hours later.(but I wouldn't trust it in a garden, thats what hands and knees are for.)

[DREDIOCK]

Originally posted by Casca
Roundup (Glyphosate) is a great product but will only kill what's green and has essentially no residual.  It is a very safe product.  

Yup Personal experiance has taught me round up works great. Kills everything cept poison ivy..well it kills it but a month later it grows back.

the little bit of mist did manage to obliterate about 20 square feet of my next door neighbors lawn though LOL

[Casca]

Originally posted by Torque
you can use a vinegar/citric acid solution to kill the weeds and have your kids play on it the next day. i'd never use roundup or any other chemical herbicide for that matter, after reading the msds sheets on that stuff.

That would be the MSDS that says its virtually non toxic even at rediculously high doses?  No difference to me if you use vinegar or pull weeds but I don't think that there is anything particularly scary in the Material Safety Data Sheet for Roundup.

[Leslie]

Some weeds like Johnson Grass or Torpedo Grass have to be dug up.  No herbicide will deal with them without nuking the soil.  The reason is they have a connecting root system of thousands of tubers (about the size of small 3" to 4" carrots located about 2 feet down.)  The only way to clear them out effectively is to dig them up and root around by hand collecting as many tubers as possible.  Or bulldoze the area first and then haul away the soil with all the root tubers.

For all practical purposes, getting rid of this type of grass is impossible for anything less than industrial purpose effort.



Les

[lazs2]

I have to keep over 500 acres weed free.  All of my guys have pesticide licences.  We go through about 90 gallons of undiluted round up pro (4 quarts per 100 gallons water) a year.

round up pro will kill anything that is green.   It is virtualy harmless but won't stop weeds from coming back.

Direx is a pre emergent that will keep them down for a year or so but it needs a good rain to soak in right after application and...not sure it is available to the public.

Buy your roundup in undiluted form for about $50 a gallon and that will make over 100 gallons of product.

lazs