Yep, that's our problem Kira. I am barely able to keep it at bay
because NONE of my neighbors care about or fight it. As a
result, we keep having new, large patches pop up in different
places each time. I even find it in the way back woody parts.
UGH. Thanks DOT.
Raleighgirl
"Kira Dirlik" !! wrote in message
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|
| On Wed, 29 Sep 2004 22:44:08 GMT, "dookie"
| wrote:
|
| at the suggestion (and reassurance) of this group i purchased
and applied
| the grass-only herbicide to combat the stilt grass infestation
along my
| creek. i was worried about the many ferns and wildflowers
that the bamboo
| was mixed up with and applied on a test area about a month
ago...
|
| it works great! stiltgrass is dead and gone and everything
else looks
| healthy. it's not cheap (~$35/qt., which makes ~12gal spray),
and it sounds
| like a pretty heavy-duty chemical...but if you're OK with
that, it does
| exactly what it claims. i wasn't even particularly careful
about keeping it
| off anything. i just did my 2nd application over a much
larger area.
|
| be gone, evil weed!
|
| dookie
|
| I've been pulling it out by the roots to keep my 7 acres clear
of it,
| but it grows faster than I can pull. However, where I pull it,
next
| year it comes back very sparsely, and when I pull those, the
next year
| it doesn't come back. I would worry about spraying in riparian
buffer
| zones. Every little stream around here ends up in Jordan Lake,
which
| already has some big problems with pollution.
| In the next three years I should have it all gone, but will
always
| need to pull out those stragglers. However, no one else in my
| neighborhood seems to be pulling any of theirs, so once I am
old and
| feeble, it will win. Hmmmm.... maybe I need to get a life.
ha ha
| Kira