Weedeating With RoundUp

[Deaf Bob]

There's a "broad leaf" type that gets sprayed on hay fields, doesn't kill grass, just berries and stuff like that..

[70chevyC-10]

There's a "broad leaf" type that gets sprayed on hay fields, doesn't kill grass, just berries and stuff like that..

I think the active ingredient is 2-4-D this kills anything that "flowers" but not grass, unless you mix it a little too hot (which I did recently) from the concentrate I got from a farmer buddy. I think it should be about 2 TBSPS. per gallon but Stiney probably knows the correct mixture.

[Beagle]

2,4-D can kill St. Augustine, and probably play hell with any "Broad Leaf" grass. I'm guessing bluegrass in pdub's yard?

Phil, depends on who's you get but that is about right. 1 oz / gal per 250 feet for bermuda, bluegrass, fescue. Cut the application in half for St. Augustine, ie same mix but applied to 500 feet instead of 250.

[70chevyC-10]

That sounds like a crop application dealing in linear feet - I just use it to spot spray now since we moved to the burb's. No kidding, he gave me about 3" in the bottom of a 2-1/2 gallon jug and I still have it 15 years later. We have mostly blugerass up here and it craps out every August when the rains stop.

[pdub]

RoundUp - Well, it's been a couple days now. Some of the vagrant indigent invading life forms have actually died. Others look like they're not feeling all that well, while the rest have grown another three inches.

Given all the choices offered here, and I'm sure the vinegar cocktail would "do it," I'm thinking fire. I'm Googling flamethrowers, and am still shopping.

I have to do something to impress the snooty new young neighbors. Oh yeah, they're gonna love this for sure.

[Deaf Bob]

RoundUp - Well, it's been a couple days now. Some of the vagrant indigent invading life forms have actually died. Others look like they're not feeling all that well, while the rest have grown another three inches.

Given all the choices offered here, and I'm sure the vinegar cocktail would "do it," I'm thinking fire. I'm Googling flamethrowers, and am still shopping.

I have to do something to impress the snooty new young neighbors. Oh yeah, they're gonna love this for sure.

Wanna burn down the house? Get one of those weed burning/ice melting torches from Harbor Freight, HD, Lowes etc..
Every time I used mine, I had to scramble myself breathless or talk to the fire dept.. They work reeeal good!
You need to be careful with them..
Guy who went to school with my kids didnt light his..pumped the mole hole full after 2-5 minutes, lit it and hit the hole.. The flames traveled to the bedding, food store and caught fire.. Problem is the bedding was under his lawnmower shed.. Total loss on a new John Deere riding mower..

[oletrux4evr]

2,4-D can kill St. Augustine, and probably play hell with any "Broad Leaf" grass. I'm guessing bluegrass in pdub's yard?

Phil, depends on who's you get but that is about right. 1 oz / gal per 250 feet for bermuda, bluegrass, fescue. Cut the application in half for St. Augustine, ie same mix but applied to 500 feet instead of 250.

So.......2 4-D would kill crabgrass and not hurt the tall fescue, if mixed properly??

[oletrux4evr]

Agent Orange was still sold until about 12 years ago under the name "Paraquot".

I thought that was Ahab's ship..........

[Beagle]

So.......2 4-D would kill crabgrass and not hurt the tall fescue, if mixed properly??

Trimec should. 2,4-D , Salt of dicamba, and some other thing I can't remember.

/edit - they have a crabgrass version, with product sheet available here. Specifically says Tall Fescue okay

http://www.pbigordon.com/pdfs/TrimecCrabgrassPlusLawnWeedKillerConcentrate-SL.pdf

[oletrux4evr]

Trimec doesn't get crabgrass here........clover scoffs at it too.........