Thread: Glyphosate
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Old 15-05-2008, 08:10 PM posted to uk.rec.gardening
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Default Glyphosate

Emrys Davies wrote:
I have read that glyphosate is deactivated when it comes into contact
with the soil. Does that mean that you can spray weeds with
glyphosate one week and then safely plant shrubs in the same area of
land a few weeks later without there being any fears of the
glyphosate which was originally used?

Thanks,
Emrys Davies


Yes. In fact you could probably plant the next day. Glyphosate is only
effective when absorbed through the green parts of a plant. You could, I
understand, safely spray it on a deciduous plant which had no leaves.

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Jeff
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