Dead grass and roundup please help!
I really try not to use chemicals but I used Round Up on a 20 by 40
foot bed to have done by the 4th of July (per wife)... It's been down for 5 days and the grass looks "light" green, not brown. May I still lay 6 in. of compost/topsoil to start my bed tomorrow? The last thing I'd want is grass growing thru. P.S. No rain, mid 70's days, low 60's nights Thanks! P.P.S. Most times I just dig or lay newspaper |
Dead grass and roundup please help!
Wait until the grass is brown and dry...why take a chance? The round up
affects the grass by increasing the rate of evapotranspiration - this needs sunlight to have maximum effect. -- Mike LaMana, MS Heartwood Consulting Services, LLC Toms River, NJ www.HeartwoodConsulting.net "Pkevinf" wrote in message om... I really try not to use chemicals but I used Round Up on a 20 by 40 foot bed to have done by the 4th of July (per wife)... It's been down for 5 days and the grass looks "light" green, not brown. May I still lay 6 in. of compost/topsoil to start my bed tomorrow? The last thing I'd want is grass growing thru. P.S. No rain, mid 70's days, low 60's nights Thanks! P.P.S. Most times I just dig or lay newspaper |
Dead grass and roundup please help!
Just out of curiosity, you're not planning on growing food crops in this new
bed, are you? "Pkevinf" wrote in message om... I really try not to use chemicals but I used Round Up on a 20 by 40 foot bed to have done by the 4th of July (per wife)... It's been down for 5 days and the grass looks "light" green, not brown. May I still lay 6 in. of compost/topsoil to start my bed tomorrow? The last thing I'd want is grass growing thru. P.S. No rain, mid 70's days, low 60's nights Thanks! P.P.S. Most times I just dig or lay newspaper |
Dead grass and roundup please help!
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Pkevinf wrote: I really try not to use chemicals but I used Round Up on a 20 by 40 foot bed to have done by the 4th of July (per wife)... It's been down for 5 days and the grass looks "light" green, not brown. May I still lay 6 in. of compost/topsoil to start my bed tomorrow? The last thing I'd want is grass growing thru. P.S. No rain, mid 70's days, low 60's nights Thanks! Oddly enough, here in NW Georgia, if I use mulch, I don't have to spray my grass. I just cover it with lots of mulch and use landscaping cloth around the edges. So far, out of what used to be a big patch of lawn, I get a few sprouts of grass that come up now and then, but they are easy to spot and pull. Generally, I spend about 10 minutes each morning pulling weeds -- it's easy to tell the grass from what I've planted -- and I have had few things grow through. I use a lot of mulch, though. This is my first major gardening attempt, and I've only had these beds since the first of the year, but so far I've been pleased with the result. But then, I enjoy doing a little weeding in the mornings. I don't have any problem with using Roundup, as people here know. I use it all the time to spray for poison oak and ivy, and for clearing a 1/3 mile gravel driveway. However, it *is* expensive, and my mulch is free. Given the choice of spending $50 on some Roundup and $50 on a cool plant, I'll choose the latter. billo |
Dead grass and roundup please help!
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Dead grass and roundup please help!
Was it a "ready spray" or concentrate? If you mixed it "heavy" thinking it
would kill quicker, it won't. It actually has a slower, lesser kill when you don't follow the ratio...Probably 6 oz. per gal? Round-up will kill anything green,(non-selective) and it dissipates when it reaches the soil, so it is safe to plant anything 7 days later....It kills to the root of whatever it gets on, but it is rain-fast after 2 hrs., so if it is mistakenly sprayed on something it can be washed off. The USDA is actually developing fruit crops to be glyphosate (Round-up) hardy for weed post-application... "Pkevinf" wrote in message om... I really try not to use chemicals but I used Round Up on a 20 by 40 foot bed to have done by the 4th of July (per wife)... It's been down for 5 days and the grass looks "light" green, not brown. May I still lay 6 in. of compost/topsoil to start my bed tomorrow? The last thing I'd want is grass growing thru. P.S. No rain, mid 70's days, low 60's nights Thanks! P.P.S. Most times I just dig or lay newspaper |
Dead grass and roundup please help!
you hit the nail on the head... I now know for the furture if I need to use this produnt again... thank you If you mixed it "heavy" thinking it would kill quicker, it won't. It actually has a slower, lesser kill when you don't follow the ratio...Probably 6 oz. per gal? Round-up will kill anything green,(non-selective) and it dissipates when it reaches the soil, so it is safe to plant anything 7 days later....It kills to the root of whatever it gets on, but it is rain-fast after 2 hrs., so if it is mistakenly sprayed on something it can be washed off. The USDA is actually developing fruit crops to be glyphosate (Round-up) hardy for weed post-application... "Pkevinf" wrote in message . com... I really try not to use chemicals but I used Round Up on a 20 by 40 foot bed to have done by the 4th of July (per wife)... It's been down for 5 days and the grass looks "light" green, not brown. May I still lay 6 in. of compost/topsoil to start my bed tomorrow? The last thing I'd want is grass growing thru. P.S. No rain, mid 70's days, low 60's nights Thanks! P.P.S. Most times I just dig or lay newspaper |
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