Hello guys - any experience with Roundup?
hi guys, any experience with roundup by monsanto?
Bye, Alex. PS: Look at my favorite tulips: http://www.rixa.com/node/33 |
Hello guys - any experience with Roundup?
Alex wrote:
hi guys, any experience with roundup by monsanto? Bye, Alex. PS: Look at my favorite tulips: http://www.rixa.com/node/33 My money is put on the chemical itself down at Agri Supply. Located on US 70 in Garner. Craig |
Hello guys - any experience with Roundup?
On Tue, 1 Jul 2008 15:30:45 -0700 (PDT) in Alex wrote:
hi guys, any experience with roundup by monsanto? I opt for whatever the best deal on glycophosphate is available, usually from agri supply in garner. I don't even fret that much about surfactant content, if it's insufficient had hand dishwashing liquid. -- Chris Dukes "Let all the babies be born. Then let us drown those we do not like." -- G. K. Chesterton. |
Hello guys - any experience with Roundup?
On 2008-07-02, Craig Watts wrote:
Alex wrote: hi guys, any experience with roundup by monsanto? Bye, Alex. PS: Look at my favorite tulips: http://www.rixa.com/node/33 My money is put on the chemical itself down at Agri Supply. Located on US 70 in Garner. Craig The patent has expired and generic prices are double last year. I don't buy Roundup because it is still more expensive and the premixed is a ripoff. A gallon at agrisupply is 50 and 2.5 gal is 93. There is a regular and a glystar pro that is about 7 bucks more for 2.5 gallons. The pro has more surfactant for turf supposedly. I have always used a good squirt of dishwashing liquid. This is the 41 % stuff so 3-6 ounces per gallon is all you need. I use 3 for general weeds, and closer to 6 for hard shiny leaves like english ivy. The Lawn and Garden stuff from Lowes will only be like 18%. WARNING. Glyso phosphate (roundup) kills any plant it touches. It needs to be on at least two hours before a rain. If you accidentally spray the wrong plant you can wash it off with plain water - the sooner the better. I keep a sprinkler can because I am always hitting something I don't want. YOu can make a shield from cardboard or plastic or metal so you can spray right up to the plants you want to keep. It must be sprayed on the leaves to work. Newer growth works better than old growth so later in the season means it will not work as well or takes longer. Sometimes it takes a few days to a week to see that the plant is dying. Things with many roots and runners can be harder to kill. We have some periwinkle as cover but I can spray a weed in it and kill little of the periwinkle, but it will kill it if you spray a whole large area. periwinkle puts out many runners and roots. -- Wes Dukes (wdukes.pobox@com) Swap the . and the @ to email me please. is a garbage address. |
Hello guys - any experience with Roundup?
Newer growth works better than old growth so later
in the season means it will not work as well or takes longer. Sometimes it takes a few days to a week to see that the plant is dying. Things with many roots and runners can be harder to kill. That's for sure. I am fighting what seems to be a neverending battle against honeysuckle, which took over all my shrubs and some trees last summer before I realized how bad it had gotten--and it killed several rhododendrons and other stuff. Last year I spent two full weekends pulling, cutting down to the woody stem at the ground, and dipping the main plants in pure roundup concentrate. That was followed by application after application of strong roundup concentrate--but it keeps coming back. Basically I have an acre of woods that was pretty much a solid CARPET of honeysuckle (and some wisteria-type vine) underneath, and it had completely covered two sides of a large 6 foot chain link fence. I can't ever let my guard down, because of course I can't keep it from leaping across the creek and property boundaries. BUT it's under control, off my shrubs and fence, and I will prevail! Sue |
Hello guys - any experience with Roundup?
On 2008-07-07, Sue wrote:
Newer growth works better than old growth so later in the season means it will not work as well or takes longer. Sometimes it takes a few days to a week to see that the plant is dying. Things with many roots and runners can be harder to kill. That's for sure. I am fighting what seems to be a neverending battle against honeysuckle, which took over all my shrubs and some trees last summer before I realized how bad it had gotten--and it killed several rhododendrons and other stuff. Last year I spent two full weekends pulling, cutting down to the woody stem at the ground, and dipping the main plants in pure roundup concentrate. That was followed by application after application of strong roundup concentrate--but it keeps coming back. Basically I have an acre of woods that was pretty much a solid CARPET of honeysuckle (and some wisteria-type vine) underneath, and it had completely covered two sides of a large 6 foot chain link fence. I can't ever let my guard down, because of course I can't keep it from leaping across the creek and property boundaries. BUT it's under control, off my shrubs and fence, and I will prevail! Sue You may want to try painting on full strength brush killer mixed with roundup. I had good luck with it on wysteria. I like to leave a foot or so of vine and scrape the bark so it will absorb more. I used BrushBgon with roundup. I have been fighting this wysteria for 15 plus years, but only half heartedly. I sacrIficed an azelea to get it this time. Maybe by next year I will have it eraticated. Part of the problem is it is back in South Carolina so I only get to fight it on trips back. But now I am building a little vacation shack where I can stay for a few days to a few weeks at a time. -- Wes Dukes (wdukes.pobox@com) Swap the . and the @ to email me please. is a garbage address. |
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