willshak said:
on 6/3/2008 9:11 AM said the following:
On Jun 3, 5:06 am, Eggs Zachtly wrote:
Alan Illeman said:
[...]
How does one kill off clover?
Take your pick:
2,4-D
Glyphosate
Corn gluten meal
Hand-pull it
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Eggs
-"God is dead." - Nietzsche
-"Nietzsche is dead" - God
One of the common herbicide companies, might be Ortho?, makes a
product specifically labeled for clover and similar. Don't remember
what chemical they used, but I'd look for it at the garden shop. I
used it and it worked. Clover is harder to kill than typical
broadleaf weeds because it has a waxy type leaf.
They used to sell a small bottle of some oily liquid that was added to
the herbicide spray to help it stick to those waxy type leaves. I think
I got it in an Agway store way back when they were still around here. I
haven't seen it anywhere lately and don't remember what it was called.
It's called a surfactant. It lowers the surface tension of the liquid,
allowing it to spread better over the surface of the leaf, rather than run
off.
I
have tried using a liquid hand soap to the herbicide mixture, but it
doesn't work as well.
Next time, try a liquid detergent, and not a soap. Ever wonder why a drop
of detergent in greasy dish water will make the grease on the surface of
the water run like hell?
I spray with a two gallon hand pump sprayer and found that adjusting the
nozzle to a fine mist is better on clover in that it doesn't run off the
leaves as readily as bigger drops.
It runs into the next small droplet, becoming larger (and heavier), which
in turn runs into the next nearest droplet (making it heavier yet), and so
on, until it runs off of the leaf.
--
Eggs
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