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Cape Weed - control the old fashioned way?
Hi Linda
Check out this site - maybe you can identify your weed http://www.directpestcontrol.com.au/weeds.htm Your post reminded me of a conversation that I had recently with my elderly neighbour Val who is a very keen gardener, and keeps a meticulous buffalo grass lawn. The last couple of years we have had problems with clover weed in garden beds and in lawns. The type of clover is that red stemmed one that has a very dense cover - almost a mat - of leaves. Val remembered that years ago (pre-herbicide days) the easy way to rid yourself of many weeds was to apply a strong dose of Sulphate of Ammonia which literally burned the weed by an overapplication of nitrogen. She applied it to her plague of clover and got rid of it! It is certainly a cheap (and relatively safe) solution. Maybe you could try it on a bit of your weed and see what happens? Cheers ~Bobby~ "Linda H" wrote in message ... Linda H wrote: BUT... that's not the weed I've been calling Cape Weed (which is the name the neigbours told me it was.) It's not! The weed that is our particular problem comes up with a pretty little pale butter coloured flower that attracts tons of those similar coloured butterflies. I'll search for weed images and see if I can find the name of it. Damn, I found a great website that you can click on your zone with many pics of weeds known to that area ( www.weeds.org.au ) but still I can't identify the weed I thought was Cape. Grrr. The closest I can see to resemble it is something like Saggitaria or Parthenium but it's not those. I would take a photo but there's none "up" at the moment coz we've mowed all the tops off. I'll keep searching. L. |
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