Nuclear strength weed killer?

[Hitch]

Gallup XL... Good stuff.

Sprayed the edge of the neighbours overgrown garden with it... within a few weeks just about everything around a metre in was brown and dead.

 

[tom2207]

none of them get rid of mares tail glyphosphate salt or sbk

theres a specific weed killer for mares tail , its ticket only ,,, and needs doing right at the start of growing season ,,, ive some mares tail that needs done and the times getting close.

 

[brightspark]

Apparently, Glyphostate is what the Railway Co's use to control weeds but it's a much stronger formula, which is not available to the public.

got mine from bruv inlaw who worked for british rail got some other stuff once of him a white powder dunno wot but it was the business he sprayed the borders of the footpath with it and it rained heavily and killed 16 no 60 foot conifers 10 yards away no one knew who done it and he got away with it

 

[8ob]

Glyphosate strength is measured in grams per litre 360g through to 540+grams per ltr for commercial strength, very little of the active ingredient when you think of 360gram mixed with a litre of the important bit that keeps it where you put it.

Bob

 

[Morrisman]

Even the dog's scared.

I was too, the black stuff on/in the slabs was horrible, it took several gallons of varying patio cleaners, moss killers, algae killers. Eventually I screwed two wire brushes to the head of an old broom and physically scrubbed it all over. That worked. Still goes green over the winter though.

 

[MattF]

Brush/spray a weak bleach solution on there, leave awhile, rinse off.

 

[Morrisman]

Brush/spray a weak bleach solution on there, leave awhile, rinse off.

That's what I did last Spring, came up pretty good.

 

[Seadog]

none of them get rid of mares tail glyphosphate salt or sbk

Ammonium sulphamate kills off everything, if used correctly. Waxy leaved plant, including mares/horse tail, you need to add a few drops if detergent to wet the leaves sufficiently.

 

[roofman]

Get 100 of these printed and scatter them about the area...be dead in 7 days

 

[James1979]

Get 100 of these printed and scatter them about the area...be dead in 7 days
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Dunno about dead but it’ll certainly be limp.

 

[Erie Fred]

Oz land has some stuff...just layin' on the side of the road that should work real well....

 

[Pete.]

Salt.
Table salt. Available on eBay. Kills everything, except chips.

Let's hope he doesn't have a mangrove infestation

 

[Shox Dr]

Ammonium sulphamate kills off everything, if used correctly. Waxy leaved plant, including mares/horse tail, you need to add a few drops if detergent to wet the leaves sufficiently.

I was going to buy some late last year. The cost put me off, its gone up so much

 

[mike os]

Glyphosate with a little washing up liquid applied once a month kills pretty much everything green

 

[bricol]

Ammonium sulphamate kills off everything, if used correctly. Waxy leaved plant, including mares/horse tail, you need to add a few drops if detergent to wet the leaves sufficiently.

Or snap the top of the stalk off, shove a solution of it down the stem with a plastic syringe.

Neighbours did give me funny looks as I crawled about the garden, under bushes, behind trees, in goggles and gloves, injecting plants . . . but a decade later, still got none in the flower borders.

In the lawn where it blends in however . . . but regularly mowing keeps it invisible so I'm not bothered.

 

[Pete.]

Or snap the top of the stalk off, shove a solution of it down the stem with a plastic syringe.

Neighbours did give me funny looks as I crawled about the garden, under bushes, behind trees, in goggles and gloves, injecting plants . . . but a decade later, still got none in the flower borders.

In the lawn where it blends in however . . . but regularly mowing keeps it invisible so I'm not bothered.

I bet they weren't as funny as the time I hoovered my whole garden with the Numatic hoover - at night - to get rid of half a million new born baby slugs!

 

[Gragson]

Not in any way nuclear strength and I would not use on open beds or particularly persistent tough weeds.
But, got a lot of pathways & tarmac drive where weeds are a pain in the gaps.
Took a punt on a known home recipe - spirit vinegar, fine salt, fairy liquid. All off amazon worked out £1 a litre made 10ltr of it.

Should have taken before after pics. Virtually every weed I sprayed it on was dead in 24 hours, very surprised.
More to do, will take some pics, obviously being a bloke I warmed up the vinegar and put more salt & w/up liquid than the online recipe.

Very impressed compared to expensive branded weedkiller

 

[brightspark]

Apparently, Glyphostate is what the Railway Co's use to control weeds but it's a much stronger formula, which is not available to the public.

i was working for a crop sprayer who used to buy it. it had a hell of a dilution rate brother in-law used to get me some stuff they used on the railways it was a white powder and would wipe everything out

 

[MattF]

Spirit vinegar. What's that?

 

[Welderpaul]

Gallup XL... Good stuff.

Sprayed the edge of the neighbours overgrown garden with it... within a few weeks just about everything around a metre in was brown and dead.

This stuff? Good?

I need to do my drive and proper Roundup has gone up to £90 for 5L