On 3/24/2014 6:42 AM, Helen Middlemas wrote:

Hi All, I am desperate for some help in killing grass off on an area we
spent a fortune on last year with membranes, large gravel etc only to
find that there is grass ever where we look. We have tried bleach,
salt, black discinfectant, boiling water and not a thing has worked.

The problem we think is we have is that our neighbours decided to seed a
brand new lawn last year. And every couple of weeks they were reseeding
it. Now we have patches of grass all over it.

The membrane was a good membrane and we did everything we should. In
the rear it worked ok. But in the front it is terrible.

Our front garden is not used, only to look at basically, but we need
something super super strong that will kill this grass once and for all.
We have tried pulling it out by hand and that has not stopped it at all
due to obviously remaining roots.

It cost hundreds of pounds to get it done which we really didn't have, a
huge amount of back breaking hours and it looks utterly dreadful.

Can anyone please recommend something which is fantastically strong and
will do the job. We have already spent quite a bit of money sorting it
out and are no further forward at all.

Thanks

In the U.S., grass-specific herbicides are available. I use
Gress-Getter, which has the same active ingredient as Poast. The
instructions inidcate mixing Grass-Getter with agricultural oil (a very
light oil) as a wetting agent; but I use liquid soap instead. This is
very effective where grass and non-grass plants grow together and I only
want to kill the grass.

The active ingredient is Sethoxydim: 2-[1-(ethoxyimino)
butyl]-5-[2-(ethylthio)propyl]-3-hydroxy-2-cyclohexen-1-one

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David E. Ross
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