No More Roundup .!!!

[pbmus]

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[postulater]

1. Have you used it?

Do you think it will kill shrubs or woody brush like buckthorn?

I've been trying for ten years to clear it out of my woods.

[DeadLetterOffice]

2. I haven't had good luck killing the *really* stubborn stuff with this.

Poison ivy, Japanese knotweed, certain kinds of tenacious-root-system nettle -- not so much. But it kills damn near everything else.

[sue4e3]

4. the soap burns it

If it doesn't work in the morning spray in mid day sun for about a week. I don't know about a hearty wooded brush like buckthorn I've used it for well established orange horn. It's not wooded but its a real bugger to get rid of. Almost any powdered soap works the best. Dawn is safer for every thing. That came right from my 100 year old grandmother(every thing but the dawn she used soap powder. The dawn being safer is my opinion and has worked for me so far). She was a farmer from Kansas since the early 1900's.

[madokie]

15. It kills dandelions

I've been using it for most of the summer now and I can tell you it does work on them.

[mopinko]

17. you need a good torch.

i use my map gas plumbers torch, but if i had a lot to clear i would invest in a roofer's propane torch.
boil the bark to girdle the tree. strip the bark first if it is big, and you like that sort of thing, which i sorta do. but get as close to the root as you can. then boil the beginning of the bark.
lather, rinse, repeat as necessary. presuming your fire danger level is low, that is.

[postulater]

18. Great idea, hadn't thought of that.

And I can do that even during winter when it's 0 degrees out and snow.

[mopinko]

19. my favorite organic herbicide.

any weed tree too big to pull or dig gets the torch.
dealing w many years of neglect on my property.

[postulater]

20. I can only pull them in the spring when it is wet and the ground is loose around the roots.

After about 15 years I still have a ton of it on our acre of woods. The big ones are all gone but the birds keep re-seeding from the neighbor's big buckthorn tree he uses as affront yard specimen tree. grrrrr.

[mopinko]

21. one thing i am manic about- tree seedlings.

we are doing hugelkultur here, which means we took in tree service waste. lots of locust beans. lots of helicopters. pull them when the first peek out. but the fence row is full of shit.

[valerief]

3. OMG, I read about this on DU a while ago and have used it. It's fabulous! It really works.

I use it on my stone landscaping where weeds pop up here and there. The only drawback to this solution is that it's not like the "lasts all season" weed killer. I have to keep doing it every week or two. However, I love that it's animal friendly.

[madokie]

5. Same here

I've been killing dandelions like they were going out of style anyway with this concoction. The recipe I used called for a half cup of the original blue dawn and thats what I'm using. I bought the cleaning 6% vinegar too.

[arikara]

6. Leave some of them

They are very healthy to eat, and useful for medicine too.

http://www.altnature.com/gallery/dandelion.htm

[A Little Weird]

10. Where do you find 6% vinegar?

I've never seen it anywhere.

[madokie]

16. grocery store where cleaning supplies are sold

[defacto7]

7. Yep, works well.

If you are worried about certain important plants, just don't spray them. Water washes off everything if you mistakenly hit something you're worried about.

Vinegar! The miracle juice. It does a bunch of things that replace brand name products that use toxic chemicals.

[eppur_se_muova]

8. That's Epsom Salts ... with an m ...

named after Epsom, England, whose mineral springs provided the first source of magnesium sulfate, which is what you get when you buy "Epsom Salts" at the drugstore today.

Not sure what Epson printers are named after.

[valerief]

11. You had to make me look, didn't you?

http://www.epson.com/cgi-bin/Store/jsp/Landing/about-epson_company-history

In 1975, Epson (Son of EP or Electronic Printer) was formally established as the next generation of printers based on the EP-101.

Son of EP. How weird is that? I love it!

[eppur_se_muova]

12. Well, we're prepared for the next trivia contest, aren't we ? nt

[valerief]

13. Ha! Only if it's held over the next 24 hours. What with all the

decades of commercial jingles, I don't have much room left for more nonsense.

[Coexist]

9. I live in Florida and this does work

I have pavers as sidewalks (historic thing) and weeds and grass grow in the cracks almost non-stop year round. I don't put in dish liquid. I use vinegar and salt. Its really cheap and works to keep growth at bay for about 3-4 months in summer.

[dixiegrrrrl]

14. This is a very belated kick.....the stuff works!

Fire ant nests don't like it, either.