Several years ago the University of Iowa came up with research that
showed that corn gluten inhibited weed seed germination (specifically,
seedling root formation). Several products have now been brought to
market:

http://www.public.iastate.edu/~isurf...gmwebsite.html

I tried one of these (don't recall which) a few years ago. It came in
a 5-gallon bucket and was a yellow powder, like flour. Being in this
powdery form made it very difficult to spread -- it might be
spreadable with a drop spreader, but in the hand-spinning thing that I
use, it just made a cloud that blew away. I have a very small lot and
don't want to buy/use/store a drop spreader (assuming that would even
work).

I figure that by now certainly someone has solved this problem and
come out with a pelletized version of the same product. Does anyone
know if pelletized corn gluten exists now for weed control purposes?

Thanks!

- Chris

Check Lowes Home and Garden Center. The Concern Company has produced a corn
gluten meal product which can be put down with a spreader.


On 9 Mar 2003 11:59:55 -0800, (Chris Campbell) wrote:

Several years ago the University of Iowa came up with research that
showed that corn gluten inhibited weed seed germination (specifically,
seedling root formation). Several products have now been brought to
market:

http://www.public.iastate.edu/~isurf...gmwebsite.html

I tried one of these (don't recall which) a few years ago. It came in
a 5-gallon bucket and was a yellow powder, like flour. Being in this
powdery form made it very difficult to spread -- it might be
spreadable with a drop spreader, but in the hand-spinning thing that I
use, it just made a cloud that blew away. I have a very small lot and
don't want to buy/use/store a drop spreader (assuming that would even
work).

I figure that by now certainly someone has solved this problem and
come out with a pelletized version of the same product. Does anyone
know if pelletized corn gluten exists now for weed control purposes?

Thanks!

- Chris