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Buzzies & blackberries
Has anyone got any tips on how to get rid of buzzies or blackberries? The
blackberries grow in other ornamental plants so spraying is difficult. The buzzies take up a large area so pulling them all out by hand would take forever. |
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"Stephen R Jones" wrote: Has anyone got any tips on how to get rid of buzzies or blackberries? The blackberries grow in other ornamental plants so spraying is difficult. The buzzies take up a large area so pulling them all out by hand would take forever. Roundup delivered via paintbrush? -- Chookie -- Sydney, Australia (Replace "foulspambegone" with "optushome" to reply) "Jeez; if only those Ancient Greek storytellers had known about the astonishing creature that is the *Usenet hydra*: you cut off one head, and *a stupider one* grows back..." -- MJ, cam.misc |
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"Stephen R Jones" wrote: Has anyone got any tips on how to get rid of buzzies or blackberries? The blackberries grow in other ornamental plants so spraying is difficult. The buzzies take up a large area so pulling them all out by hand would take forever. Roundup delivered via paintbrush? -- Chookie -- Sydney, Australia (Replace "foulspambegone" with "optushome" to reply) "Jeez; if only those Ancient Greek storytellers had known about the astonishing creature that is the *Usenet hydra*: you cut off one head, and *a stupider one* grows back..." -- MJ, cam.misc |
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-- G'day, I agree with Chookie that glyphosate is your best bet, but maybe you can drill the stems and pour in a strong mix. You may have to move the other plants while you treat them. But tell me, what are 'Buzzies'? China Wingham NSW |
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G'Day China,
Thanks heaps for the info. I know very little about gardening unfortunately. However, from doing a bit of google surfing I was surprised to find that both "buzzies" and blackberries were in the rose family. So buzzies are Acaena novae-hollandia, also commonly known as bindi in New Zealand and other places I guess. The "buzzies" are in the lawn and I hoped there was a sort of weed&feed solution. I had used a clover & bindi spray but I have never had any success with that. The best success I have had to control this is pulling it out by hand, but over an acre or so its too big a job to ever finish. With the blackberries, I had thought about using a syringe to inject the stems with glyphosate, but had no idea how viable this would be or what the mixture ratio would be if I did that. So any further tips you or anyone could give me would be greatly appreciated. ... Jonesey TAS "China" wrote in message ... -- G'day, I agree with Chookie that glyphosate is your best bet, but maybe you can drill the stems and pour in a strong mix. You may have to move the other plants while you treat them. But tell me, what are 'Buzzies'? China Wingham NSW |
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Stephen R Jones wrote:
....snip.... With the blackberries, I had thought about using a syringe to inject the stems with glyphosate, but had no idea how viable this would be or what the mixture ratio would be if I did that. So any further tips you or anyone could give me would be greatly appreciated. Wait for a warm day. Cut stem. Paint root with glyco straight and dip top in little container. Repeat root application as stem sucks in glyco. Well, that works for trees {:-) like privet. Warm day means sap is running. You want to feed stuff into root to kill it. Same for top part as a cutting buried can shoot. Apart from the thorns (thick leather gloves), I've found blackberry reasonable easy to pull out. It just that the roots have a lot of other stuff around to snag you. |
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-- G'day SJ, You wrote: ......thought about using a syringe to inject the stems.... Great theory, but unless you pre-drill the hole you will get nothing in to the tissue, just a bent needle (...been there...done that....even had the weeds to prove it....). If the stems are large enough, drill them with the Black and Decker, then pour/inject a strong mix of the glyco, and top it up as it soaks in over the following days. As Terry said, digging them out is feasible, but you must be vigilant for new growth from missed roots. Otherwise I would cut them down to ground level and then REGULARLY glyco the fresh new shoots. You wrote: ......what mixture ratio would be if I did that.... The manufacturer would usually recommend full strength, but I'm a fish, as they say, and have always had success with a 50% solution, (i.e. glyco is usually 360g/l when you buy it, so half water, half glyco for this use). You wrote: ....."buzzies" are in the lawn and I hoped there was a sort of weed&feed solution..... I've never heard them called "buzzies" , but bindii's ( Jo-Jo's?) I know! They look like clover?, possible the only green spots in the lawn?, the kids and dogs won't go outside?, people are saying things behind your back when you have them around for a barbie?, sounds like bindiis to me. The big problem with these types of lawn weeds is that by the time you feel them in your feet, you have already left it to late to stop a whole fresh crop of seeds being set all ready for next year. You wrote: ......best success I have had to control this is pulling it out by hand, but over an acre or so its too big a job to ever finish... If you already have quantities of seed set on the lawn and it's too bloody hot to pull or cut them off, ( beware...pulling weeds up often results in you bringing to the surface a large quantity of weed seeds that the insects have stored away for the future), then I would spray them first, and a few days later mow and catch the lawn on a notch lower than usual and compost / dispose of the clippings, that WILL be full of seed. With a bit of practice you will come to recognise the seedlings, and you must deal with them REGULARLY. Their main flush of growth occurs in the early spring, and that's the time to hit them hardest, but you must follow up REGULARLY. It is a long term solution, but I don't know of any others that are realistic. Realise that most people cut their lawns far to short, (..have a look at your local bowling club and consider how many manhours it takes to maintain a lawn kept that short (...and for the price of a schooner you can probably get to talk to the greenkeeper..)), stressing the grasses, and thus encouraging lawn weeds. A healthy lawn is the eventual cure, but of course, those critical guests at you next barbie probably brought in fresh seed on the bottom of their thongs, (bindii's are good like that). You wrote: ...I had used a clover & bindi spray but I have never had any success... I have had success with a ' Chemspray' product called ' BIN-DIE'. It's a similar price to the rest, safe on most grasses (get some buffalo runners), and well, it works for me. The 'weed&feed' plan has it's own vagaries. The theory goes that you spread a dry crystal ( mostly sulphate of ammonia ( nitrogen ) with a few additives) over the lawns, wait till it burns the tops off all the plants, and once you water it in, a few days later, as the grasses have the most persistent root system, should grow vigorously and flush. Trouble is, some times it rains to soon (we wish), some times it is the final straw for a lawn already under stress, some times it takes out plants around the edge of the lawn , and it never does anything about the seed that is already set. You wrote: ....from doing a bit of google surfing I was surprised to find that both "buzzies" and blackberries were in the rose family..... I knew blackberries were in the rose family, ( after all, like the old English briar rose, they are over thorny, over vigorous and over here.... {:-) ), but the bindii's heritage was a surprise, they are a clover ( and leguminous, I understand ) , but maybe they are all related. Any way it's too bloody hot to care at the moment, and I am very glad of this excuse to sit inside and fiddle with the keyboard instead of going outside and mow the lawns as I was asked to do. You wrote: ..... know very little about gardening unfortunately...However, from doing a bit of goggle surfing.... The heat is my excuse, not yours! So get out there! Less goggle more gardening! It's always a good way to build up a thirst. {:-)....As Terry might say, ... ' It works for me! '... And also hit your local library, gardening books are a great read and inspiration on a hot evening with a cold one. China Wingham NSW p.s. I have just re-called something an Architect friend once told me.... ' If you have a problem, make it a feature!'.... have you considered the marketability of blackberries....{:-). |
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G'Day China & Terry
Thanks heaps for getting back to me with this info. With respect to the blackberries, I look forward trying out both drilling the stem as well as cutting the stem and using the glyphosate in a jar method. Would you mind if I asked a follow-up question? That is, about how much stem length should be left from the ground? (does this matter?) I have all sizes to choose from China - thanks for the extra advice on the bindiis (buzzies as they are known in Tas). From what you say it seems that the resident wallabies would do a fine job encouraging these plants. They keep the grass too short (like the greenkeeper) and no doubt bring in more seeds on their fur. But I wouldn't be without them, otherwise I would be spending too much google surfing time on the mower ;-) Regards Jonesey Tas "China" wrote in message ... -- G'day SJ, You wrote: .....thought about using a syringe to inject the stems.... Great theory, but unless you pre-drill the hole you will get nothing in to the tissue, just a bent needle (...been there...done that....even had the weeds to prove it....). If the stems are large enough, drill them with the Black and Decker, then pour/inject a strong mix of the glyco, and top it up as it soaks in over the following days. As Terry said, digging them out is feasible, but you must be vigilant for new growth from missed roots. Otherwise I would cut them down to ground level and then REGULARLY glyco the fresh new shoots. You wrote: ......what mixture ratio would be if I did that.... The manufacturer would usually recommend full strength, but I'm a fish, as they say, and have always had success with a 50% solution, (i.e. glyco is usually 360g/l when you buy it, so half water, half glyco for this use). You wrote: ...."buzzies" are in the lawn and I hoped there was a sort of weed&feed solution..... I've never heard them called "buzzies" , but bindii's ( Jo-Jo's?) I know! They look like clover?, possible the only green spots in the lawn?, the kids and dogs won't go outside?, people are saying things behind your back when you have them around for a barbie?, sounds like bindiis to me. The big problem with these types of lawn weeds is that by the time you feel them in your feet, you have already left it to late to stop a whole fresh crop of seeds being set all ready for next year. You wrote: .....best success I have had to control this is pulling it out by hand, but over an acre or so its too big a job to ever finish... If you already have quantities of seed set on the lawn and it's too bloody hot to pull or cut them off, ( beware...pulling weeds up often results in you bringing to the surface a large quantity of weed seeds that the insects have stored away for the future), then I would spray them first, and a few days later mow and catch the lawn on a notch lower than usual and compost / dispose of the clippings, that WILL be full of seed. With a bit of practice you will come to recognise the seedlings, and you must deal with them REGULARLY. Their main flush of growth occurs in the early spring, and that's the time to hit them hardest, but you must follow up REGULARLY. It is a long term solution, but I don't know of any others that are realistic. Realise that most people cut their lawns far to short, (..have a look at your local bowling club and consider how many manhours it takes to maintain a lawn kept that short (...and for the price of a schooner you can probably get to talk to the greenkeeper..)), stressing the grasses, and thus encouraging lawn weeds. A healthy lawn is the eventual cure, but of course, those critical guests at you next barbie probably brought in fresh seed on the bottom of their thongs, (bindii's are good like that). You wrote: ...I had used a clover & bindi spray but I have never had any success... I have had success with a ' Chemspray' product called ' BIN-DIE'. It's a similar price to the rest, safe on most grasses (get some buffalo runners), and well, it works for me. The 'weed&feed' plan has it's own vagaries. The theory goes that you spread a dry crystal ( mostly sulphate of ammonia ( nitrogen ) with a few additives) over the lawns, wait till it burns the tops off all the plants, and once you water it in, a few days later, as the grasses have the most persistent root system, should grow vigorously and flush. Trouble is, some times it rains to soon (we wish), some times it is the final straw for a lawn already under stress, some times it takes out plants around the edge of the lawn , and it never does anything about the seed that is already set. You wrote: ...from doing a bit of google surfing I was surprised to find that both "buzzies" and blackberries were in the rose family..... I knew blackberries were in the rose family, ( after all, like the old English briar rose, they are over thorny, over vigorous and over here.... {:-) ), but the bindii's heritage was a surprise, they are a clover ( and leguminous, I understand ) , but maybe they are all related. Any way it's too bloody hot to care at the moment, and I am very glad of this excuse to sit inside and fiddle with the keyboard instead of going outside and mow the lawns as I was asked to do. You wrote: .... know very little about gardening unfortunately...However, from doing a bit of goggle surfing.... The heat is my excuse, not yours! So get out there! Less goggle more gardening! It's always a good way to build up a thirst. {:-)....As Terry might say, ... ' It works for me! '... And also hit your local library, gardening books are a great read and inspiration on a hot evening with a cold one. China Wingham NSW p.s. I have just re-called something an Architect friend once told me.... ' If you have a problem, make it a feature!'.... have you considered the marketability of blackberries....{:-). |
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G'Day China & Terry
Thanks heaps for getting back to me with this info. With respect to the blackberries, I look forward trying out both drilling the stem as well as cutting the stem and using the glyphosate in a jar method. Would you mind if I asked a follow-up question? That is, about how much stem length should be left from the ground? (does this matter?) I have all sizes to choose from China - thanks for the extra advice on the bindiis (buzzies as they are known in Tas). From what you say it seems that the resident wallabies would do a fine job encouraging these plants. They keep the grass too short (like the greenkeeper) and no doubt bring in more seeds on their fur. But I wouldn't be without them, otherwise I would be spending too much google surfing time on the mower ;-) Regards Jonesey Tas "China" wrote in message ... -- G'day SJ, You wrote: .....thought about using a syringe to inject the stems.... Great theory, but unless you pre-drill the hole you will get nothing in to the tissue, just a bent needle (...been there...done that....even had the weeds to prove it....). If the stems are large enough, drill them with the Black and Decker, then pour/inject a strong mix of the glyco, and top it up as it soaks in over the following days. As Terry said, digging them out is feasible, but you must be vigilant for new growth from missed roots. Otherwise I would cut them down to ground level and then REGULARLY glyco the fresh new shoots. You wrote: ......what mixture ratio would be if I did that.... The manufacturer would usually recommend full strength, but I'm a fish, as they say, and have always had success with a 50% solution, (i.e. glyco is usually 360g/l when you buy it, so half water, half glyco for this use). You wrote: ...."buzzies" are in the lawn and I hoped there was a sort of weed&feed solution..... I've never heard them called "buzzies" , but bindii's ( Jo-Jo's?) I know! They look like clover?, possible the only green spots in the lawn?, the kids and dogs won't go outside?, people are saying things behind your back when you have them around for a barbie?, sounds like bindiis to me. The big problem with these types of lawn weeds is that by the time you feel them in your feet, you have already left it to late to stop a whole fresh crop of seeds being set all ready for next year. You wrote: .....best success I have had to control this is pulling it out by hand, but over an acre or so its too big a job to ever finish... If you already have quantities of seed set on the lawn and it's too bloody hot to pull or cut them off, ( beware...pulling weeds up often results in you bringing to the surface a large quantity of weed seeds that the insects have stored away for the future), then I would spray them first, and a few days later mow and catch the lawn on a notch lower than usual and compost / dispose of the clippings, that WILL be full of seed. With a bit of practice you will come to recognise the seedlings, and you must deal with them REGULARLY. Their main flush of growth occurs in the early spring, and that's the time to hit them hardest, but you must follow up REGULARLY. It is a long term solution, but I don't know of any others that are realistic. Realise that most people cut their lawns far to short, (..have a look at your local bowling club and consider how many manhours it takes to maintain a lawn kept that short (...and for the price of a schooner you can probably get to talk to the greenkeeper..)), stressing the grasses, and thus encouraging lawn weeds. A healthy lawn is the eventual cure, but of course, those critical guests at you next barbie probably brought in fresh seed on the bottom of their thongs, (bindii's are good like that). You wrote: ...I had used a clover & bindi spray but I have never had any success... I have had success with a ' Chemspray' product called ' BIN-DIE'. It's a similar price to the rest, safe on most grasses (get some buffalo runners), and well, it works for me. The 'weed&feed' plan has it's own vagaries. The theory goes that you spread a dry crystal ( mostly sulphate of ammonia ( nitrogen ) with a few additives) over the lawns, wait till it burns the tops off all the plants, and once you water it in, a few days later, as the grasses have the most persistent root system, should grow vigorously and flush. Trouble is, some times it rains to soon (we wish), some times it is the final straw for a lawn already under stress, some times it takes out plants around the edge of the lawn , and it never does anything about the seed that is already set. You wrote: ...from doing a bit of google surfing I was surprised to find that both "buzzies" and blackberries were in the rose family..... I knew blackberries were in the rose family, ( after all, like the old English briar rose, they are over thorny, over vigorous and over here.... {:-) ), but the bindii's heritage was a surprise, they are a clover ( and leguminous, I understand ) , but maybe they are all related. Any way it's too bloody hot to care at the moment, and I am very glad of this excuse to sit inside and fiddle with the keyboard instead of going outside and mow the lawns as I was asked to do. You wrote: .... know very little about gardening unfortunately...However, from doing a bit of goggle surfing.... The heat is my excuse, not yours! So get out there! Less goggle more gardening! It's always a good way to build up a thirst. {:-)....As Terry might say, ... ' It works for me! '... And also hit your local library, gardening books are a great read and inspiration on a hot evening with a cold one. China Wingham NSW p.s. I have just re-called something an Architect friend once told me.... ' If you have a problem, make it a feature!'.... have you considered the marketability of blackberries....{:-). |
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Stephen R Jones wrote:
G'Day China & Terry Thanks heaps for getting back to me with this info. With respect to the blackberries, I look forward trying out both drilling the stem as well as cutting the stem and using the glyphosate in a jar method. Would you mind if I asked a follow-up question? That is, about how much stem length should be left from the ground? (does this matter?) I have all sizes to choose from Your choice I guess. If you are not going to do follow up work (pull roots out when dead, etc), then I guess as close to the ground as suits you. If you are going to pull them out after they die and roots rot a bit, leave a good bit to grip (using thick leather gloves {:-). Most of the blackberry infestations I deal with in bush regeneration are small (what blackberry? - zip it is gone roots and all). Just occassionally we find a metre wide patch and need to do a bit of work. Usually we cut below any branching in the stem. Note, roundup/zero can require 6 and 12 monthly revisits (spray fresh leaves). they do make stronger stuff that you can spray on (but full spray kit strongly recommended) |
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Stephen R Jones wrote:
G'Day China & Terry Thanks heaps for getting back to me with this info. With respect to the blackberries, I look forward trying out both drilling the stem as well as cutting the stem and using the glyphosate in a jar method. Would you mind if I asked a follow-up question? That is, about how much stem length should be left from the ground? (does this matter?) I have all sizes to choose from Your choice I guess. If you are not going to do follow up work (pull roots out when dead, etc), then I guess as close to the ground as suits you. If you are going to pull them out after they die and roots rot a bit, leave a good bit to grip (using thick leather gloves {:-). Most of the blackberry infestations I deal with in bush regeneration are small (what blackberry? - zip it is gone roots and all). Just occassionally we find a metre wide patch and need to do a bit of work. Usually we cut below any branching in the stem. Note, roundup/zero can require 6 and 12 monthly revisits (spray fresh leaves). they do make stronger stuff that you can spray on (but full spray kit strongly recommended) |
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G'Day China & Terry
Thanks heaps for getting back to me with this info. With respect to the blackberries, I look forward trying out both drilling the stem as well as cutting the stem and using the glyphosate in a jar method. Would you mind if I asked a follow-up question? That is, about how much stem length should be left from the ground? (does this matter?) I have all sizes to choose from China - thanks for the extra advice on the bindiis (buzzies as they are known in Tas). From what you say it seems that the resident wallabies would do a fine job encouraging these plants. They keep the grass too short (like the greenkeeper) and no doubt bring in more seeds on their fur. But I wouldn't be without them, otherwise I would be spending too much google surfing time on the mower ;-) Regards Jonesey Tas "China" wrote in message ... -- G'day SJ, You wrote: .....thought about using a syringe to inject the stems.... Great theory, but unless you pre-drill the hole you will get nothing in to the tissue, just a bent needle (...been there...done that....even had the weeds to prove it....). If the stems are large enough, drill them with the Black and Decker, then pour/inject a strong mix of the glyco, and top it up as it soaks in over the following days. As Terry said, digging them out is feasible, but you must be vigilant for new growth from missed roots. Otherwise I would cut them down to ground level and then REGULARLY glyco the fresh new shoots. You wrote: ......what mixture ratio would be if I did that.... The manufacturer would usually recommend full strength, but I'm a fish, as they say, and have always had success with a 50% solution, (i.e. glyco is usually 360g/l when you buy it, so half water, half glyco for this use). You wrote: ...."buzzies" are in the lawn and I hoped there was a sort of weed&feed solution..... I've never heard them called "buzzies" , but bindii's ( Jo-Jo's?) I know! They look like clover?, possible the only green spots in the lawn?, the kids and dogs won't go outside?, people are saying things behind your back when you have them around for a barbie?, sounds like bindiis to me. The big problem with these types of lawn weeds is that by the time you feel them in your feet, you have already left it to late to stop a whole fresh crop of seeds being set all ready for next year. You wrote: .....best success I have had to control this is pulling it out by hand, but over an acre or so its too big a job to ever finish... If you already have quantities of seed set on the lawn and it's too bloody hot to pull or cut them off, ( beware...pulling weeds up often results in you bringing to the surface a large quantity of weed seeds that the insects have stored away for the future), then I would spray them first, and a few days later mow and catch the lawn on a notch lower than usual and compost / dispose of the clippings, that WILL be full of seed. With a bit of practice you will come to recognise the seedlings, and you must deal with them REGULARLY. Their main flush of growth occurs in the early spring, and that's the time to hit them hardest, but you must follow up REGULARLY. It is a long term solution, but I don't know of any others that are realistic. Realise that most people cut their lawns far to short, (..have a look at your local bowling club and consider how many manhours it takes to maintain a lawn kept that short (...and for the price of a schooner you can probably get to talk to the greenkeeper..)), stressing the grasses, and thus encouraging lawn weeds. A healthy lawn is the eventual cure, but of course, those critical guests at you next barbie probably brought in fresh seed on the bottom of their thongs, (bindii's are good like that). You wrote: ...I had used a clover & bindi spray but I have never had any success... I have had success with a ' Chemspray' product called ' BIN-DIE'. It's a similar price to the rest, safe on most grasses (get some buffalo runners), and well, it works for me. The 'weed&feed' plan has it's own vagaries. The theory goes that you spread a dry crystal ( mostly sulphate of ammonia ( nitrogen ) with a few additives) over the lawns, wait till it burns the tops off all the plants, and once you water it in, a few days later, as the grasses have the most persistent root system, should grow vigorously and flush. Trouble is, some times it rains to soon (we wish), some times it is the final straw for a lawn already under stress, some times it takes out plants around the edge of the lawn , and it never does anything about the seed that is already set. You wrote: ...from doing a bit of google surfing I was surprised to find that both "buzzies" and blackberries were in the rose family..... I knew blackberries were in the rose family, ( after all, like the old English briar rose, they are over thorny, over vigorous and over here.... {:-) ), but the bindii's heritage was a surprise, they are a clover ( and leguminous, I understand ) , but maybe they are all related. Any way it's too bloody hot to care at the moment, and I am very glad of this excuse to sit inside and fiddle with the keyboard instead of going outside and mow the lawns as I was asked to do. You wrote: .... know very little about gardening unfortunately...However, from doing a bit of goggle surfing.... The heat is my excuse, not yours! So get out there! Less goggle more gardening! It's always a good way to build up a thirst. {:-)....As Terry might say, ... ' It works for me! '... And also hit your local library, gardening books are a great read and inspiration on a hot evening with a cold one. China Wingham NSW p.s. I have just re-called something an Architect friend once told me.... ' If you have a problem, make it a feature!'.... have you considered the marketability of blackberries....{:-). |
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Stephen R Jones wrote:
G'Day China & Terry Thanks heaps for getting back to me with this info. With respect to the blackberries, I look forward trying out both drilling the stem as well as cutting the stem and using the glyphosate in a jar method. Would you mind if I asked a follow-up question? That is, about how much stem length should be left from the ground? (does this matter?) I have all sizes to choose from Your choice I guess. If you are not going to do follow up work (pull roots out when dead, etc), then I guess as close to the ground as suits you. If you are going to pull them out after they die and roots rot a bit, leave a good bit to grip (using thick leather gloves {:-). Most of the blackberry infestations I deal with in bush regeneration are small (what blackberry? - zip it is gone roots and all). Just occassionally we find a metre wide patch and need to do a bit of work. Usually we cut below any branching in the stem. Note, roundup/zero can require 6 and 12 monthly revisits (spray fresh leaves). they do make stronger stuff that you can spray on (but full spray kit strongly recommended) |
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G'Day China & Terry
Thanks heaps for getting back to me with this info. With respect to the blackberries, I look forward trying out both drilling the stem as well as cutting the stem and using the glyphosate in a jar method. Would you mind if I asked a follow-up question? That is, about how much stem length should be left from the ground? (does this matter?) I have all sizes to choose from China - thanks for the extra advice on the bindiis (buzzies as they are known in Tas). From what you say it seems that the resident wallabies would do a fine job encouraging these plants. They keep the grass too short (like the greenkeeper) and no doubt bring in more seeds on their fur. But I wouldn't be without them, otherwise I would be spending too much google surfing time on the mower ;-) Regards Jonesey Tas "China" wrote in message ... -- G'day SJ, You wrote: .....thought about using a syringe to inject the stems.... Great theory, but unless you pre-drill the hole you will get nothing in to the tissue, just a bent needle (...been there...done that....even had the weeds to prove it....). If the stems are large enough, drill them with the Black and Decker, then pour/inject a strong mix of the glyco, and top it up as it soaks in over the following days. As Terry said, digging them out is feasible, but you must be vigilant for new growth from missed roots. Otherwise I would cut them down to ground level and then REGULARLY glyco the fresh new shoots. You wrote: ......what mixture ratio would be if I did that.... The manufacturer would usually recommend full strength, but I'm a fish, as they say, and have always had success with a 50% solution, (i.e. glyco is usually 360g/l when you buy it, so half water, half glyco for this use). You wrote: ...."buzzies" are in the lawn and I hoped there was a sort of weed&feed solution..... I've never heard them called "buzzies" , but bindii's ( Jo-Jo's?) I know! They look like clover?, possible the only green spots in the lawn?, the kids and dogs won't go outside?, people are saying things behind your back when you have them around for a barbie?, sounds like bindiis to me. The big problem with these types of lawn weeds is that by the time you feel them in your feet, you have already left it to late to stop a whole fresh crop of seeds being set all ready for next year. You wrote: .....best success I have had to control this is pulling it out by hand, but over an acre or so its too big a job to ever finish... If you already have quantities of seed set on the lawn and it's too bloody hot to pull or cut them off, ( beware...pulling weeds up often results in you bringing to the surface a large quantity of weed seeds that the insects have stored away for the future), then I would spray them first, and a few days later mow and catch the lawn on a notch lower than usual and compost / dispose of the clippings, that WILL be full of seed. With a bit of practice you will come to recognise the seedlings, and you must deal with them REGULARLY. Their main flush of growth occurs in the early spring, and that's the time to hit them hardest, but you must follow up REGULARLY. It is a long term solution, but I don't know of any others that are realistic. Realise that most people cut their lawns far to short, (..have a look at your local bowling club and consider how many manhours it takes to maintain a lawn kept that short (...and for the price of a schooner you can probably get to talk to the greenkeeper..)), stressing the grasses, and thus encouraging lawn weeds. A healthy lawn is the eventual cure, but of course, those critical guests at you next barbie probably brought in fresh seed on the bottom of their thongs, (bindii's are good like that). You wrote: ...I had used a clover & bindi spray but I have never had any success... I have had success with a ' Chemspray' product called ' BIN-DIE'. It's a similar price to the rest, safe on most grasses (get some buffalo runners), and well, it works for me. The 'weed&feed' plan has it's own vagaries. The theory goes that you spread a dry crystal ( mostly sulphate of ammonia ( nitrogen ) with a few additives) over the lawns, wait till it burns the tops off all the plants, and once you water it in, a few days later, as the grasses have the most persistent root system, should grow vigorously and flush. Trouble is, some times it rains to soon (we wish), some times it is the final straw for a lawn already under stress, some times it takes out plants around the edge of the lawn , and it never does anything about the seed that is already set. You wrote: ...from doing a bit of google surfing I was surprised to find that both "buzzies" and blackberries were in the rose family..... I knew blackberries were in the rose family, ( after all, like the old English briar rose, they are over thorny, over vigorous and over here.... {:-) ), but the bindii's heritage was a surprise, they are a clover ( and leguminous, I understand ) , but maybe they are all related. Any way it's too bloody hot to care at the moment, and I am very glad of this excuse to sit inside and fiddle with the keyboard instead of going outside and mow the lawns as I was asked to do. You wrote: .... know very little about gardening unfortunately...However, from doing a bit of goggle surfing.... The heat is my excuse, not yours! So get out there! Less goggle more gardening! It's always a good way to build up a thirst. {:-)....As Terry might say, ... ' It works for me! '... And also hit your local library, gardening books are a great read and inspiration on a hot evening with a cold one. China Wingham NSW p.s. I have just re-called something an Architect friend once told me.... ' If you have a problem, make it a feature!'.... have you considered the marketability of blackberries....{:-). |
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Buzzies & blackberries
Stephen R Jones wrote:
G'Day China & Terry Thanks heaps for getting back to me with this info. With respect to the blackberries, I look forward trying out both drilling the stem as well as cutting the stem and using the glyphosate in a jar method. Would you mind if I asked a follow-up question? That is, about how much stem length should be left from the ground? (does this matter?) I have all sizes to choose from Your choice I guess. If you are not going to do follow up work (pull roots out when dead, etc), then I guess as close to the ground as suits you. If you are going to pull them out after they die and roots rot a bit, leave a good bit to grip (using thick leather gloves {:-). Most of the blackberry infestations I deal with in bush regeneration are small (what blackberry? - zip it is gone roots and all). Just occassionally we find a metre wide patch and need to do a bit of work. Usually we cut below any branching in the stem. Note, roundup/zero can require 6 and 12 monthly revisits (spray fresh leaves). they do make stronger stuff that you can spray on (but full spray kit strongly recommended) |
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