Home made weed killer

[mtt.tr]

Ammonium Sulphamate, a dash of soap. Its systemic so kills the roots as per Glyphosate but without the questionable safety issues surrounding it.

Has been my go to for many years.

 

[brightspark]

i use extra strength glyphosphate and add activate g herbicide enhancer https://www.agrigem.co.uk/product/a...u6dRs6EAbBGDUo63kO-V6sK-FtLEiknYaAoNIEALw_wcB also use sbr brushwood killer wipe out the woody stuff it also kills hawthorne hedges even one i didnt want killing

 

[Guineafowl]

i use extra strength glyphosphate and add activate g herbicide enhancer https://www.agrigem.co.uk/product/a...u6dRs6EAbBGDUo63kO-V6sK-FtLEiknYaAoNIEALw_wcB also use sbr brushwood killer wipe out the woody stuff it also kills hawthorne hedges even one i didnt want killing

Blue gem dye also highly recommended, to see where you’ve been.

Does that stuff burn the plants down a bit quicker? My only complaint with glyphosate is, it takes so long to look like it’s worked.

Got my eye on a huge amount of horrible ragwort in a 7 acre field.

 

[brightspark]

Blue gem dye also highly recommended, to see where you’ve been.

Does that stuff burn the plants down a bit quicker? My only complaint with glyphosate is, it takes so long to look like it’s worked.

Got my eye on a huge amount of horrible ragwort in a 7 acre field.

makes it a bit quicker and helps get it all in to the plant

 

[Smallfry]

I don't think ammonium sulphamate is banned as a weed killer, just not licensed as it hasn't gone through EU testing. The same can be said about custard, flared trousers and earwax, they're not licensed as weed killers but not banned.

And what's wrong with flared trousers ? I expect you were just as guilty as the rest of us.

 

[brightspark]

And what's wrong with flared trousers ? I expect you were just as guilty as the rest of us.

i never worn bell bottoms or winkle pickers or had large side burners had the double 2 paisly shirts mind and brut . a bit of the usual deviation of thread

 

[Guzrik]

i use extra strength glyphosphate and add activate g herbicide enhancer https://www.agrigem.co.uk/product/a...u6dRs6EAbBGDUo63kO-V6sK-FtLEiknYaAoNIEALw_wcB also use sbr brushwood killer wipe out the woody stuff it also kills hawthorne hedges even one i didnt want killed

Since loosing both FIL and MIL (is that an actual known abrevation? ; it is very close to something completely different ) to Parkinsons disease after a horrible few years of gradual degeneration, I never ever want to come close to this stuff.
What a horrible end.

 

[Guzrik]

I have read about.people using white vinegar watered down to kill weeds and ivy, I want to buy some white vinegar but what strength should I be looking for?

So I use the 8% one, and had to replace one o ring in the handpump of my gardena backpack sprayer every spring.
Now a Kalrez one for a few years and counting.
I also noticed in stores that a disclaimer was added to new ones: not suited for vinegar.

 

[premmington]

i use extra strength glyphosphate and add activate g herbicide enhancer https://www.agrigem.co.uk/product/a...u6dRs6EAbBGDUo63kO-V6sK-FtLEiknYaAoNIEALw_wcB also use sbr brushwood killer wipe out the woody stuff it also kills hawthorne hedges even one i didnt want killing

You into your weedkilling mate...

Do I recall you near a railway track...?

Some of the property I got is near water courses - they bring weeds

 

[brightspark]

You into your weedkilling mate...
about 100 yards
Do I recall you near a railway track...?

yes about 100 yards long next to it and a playing field along the other side. got rid of a load of nettles thistles brambles and other big weeds then cut all the large hawthorne trees back

 

[premmington]

yes about 100 yards long next to it and a playing field along the other side. got rid of a load of nettles thistles brambles and other big weeds then cut all the large hawthorne trees back

I fought Japanese Knotweed for ten years at one site I own - I have been "Knotweed clear" for seven years now....


I done my research on weedkiller and killing weeds - trust me on that....

 

[brightspark]

my bruv inlaw once worked for the railways and gave me some white powder killer they sprayed along the tracks with he used it on a public footpath edge along his house. tother side of the footpath about 8 meters away from a row of conifers about 60 foot tall 2 month later a guy was taking a sample from the ground and checking the trees he asked whats the score , tree specialist said 12 of them were dying brother inlaw never let on he had done it and fortunately for him he moved house a month after never found out what it was but it was good

 

[Screwdriver]

A side note possibly related: I clear the felt roof of moss just by sprinkling it with bicarbonate of soda.

Same stuff I use for "sand"blasting.

 

[premmington]

my bruv inlaw once worked for the railways and gave me some white powder killer they sprayed along the tracks with he used it on a public footpath edge along his house. tother side of the footpath about 8 meters away from a row of conifers about 60 foot tall 2 month later a guy was taking a sample from the ground and checking the trees he asked whats the score , tree specialist said 12 of them were dying brother inlaw never let on he had done it and fortunately for him he moved house a month after never found out what it was but it was good

"Paraquat"

But to be honest I have never found anything that Glyphosate will not kill. Pick a dry day - get under waxy leaves - and it is dead....

 

[Erie Fred]

Since loosing both FIL and MIL (is that an actual known abrevation? ; it is very close to something completely different ) to Parkinsons disease after a horrible few years of gradual degeneration, I never ever want to come close to this stuff.
What a horrible end.

Just saw this, and cringed, my grandmother died of Parkinsons

https://www.science.org/content/article/widely-used-chemical-strongly-linked-parkinson-s-disease

EDIT: from the linked article near the end:
"Pesticides such as paraquat and rotenone that have been associated with Parkinson’s disease also leave that pathological signature in rodents."

 

[premmington]

Just saw this, and cringed, my grandmother died of Parkinsons

https://www.science.org/content/article/widely-used-chemical-strongly-linked-parkinson-s-disease

Trichloroethylene = dry cleaning fluid

I have used lots of TCE in my lifetime as a degreaser (solvent).

 

[Seadog]

Trike was banned in the late 70s I believe. We had open "Trike tanks" when I worked at Plessey.

 

[reb78]

I fought Japanese Knotweed for ten years at one site I own - I have been "Knotweed clear" for seven years now....

What did you use? What protocols for it?

 

[premmington]

What did you use? What protocols for it?

Manual extraction then fire.

Never removed anything from site - burnt every fibre.

Injected Glyphosate - then sprayed Glyphosate - but you gotta be patient and wait for some green and time it for when in late summer it takes it down to root rhizome.

Dow Tordon 22k was no better than Glyphosate to be honest - for the job - it just cost's lots more...

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I would again buy a cheap premises infected with Knotweed - it not that hard to iradicate... It just takes time.

The problem with knotweed is - water cources and neighbours - if you adjacent to land with knotweed on it - and the owner does nothing - you will never win the battle.

 

[m_c]

"Paraquat"

But to be honest I have never found anything that Glyphosate will not kill. Pick a dry day - get under waxy leaves - and it is dead....

I'm not sure Paraquat (or more commonly sold as Gramoxone in the UK) would have much impact on trees via their roots, as IIRC it mostly relies on leaf contact.
It was highly effective at killing growth, as it could turn fields brown within days, so was ideal for clearing growth before cultivation, whereas Glyphosate was slower acting and had to be applied a couple weeks before cultivation for the same effect as it had to make it's way to the roots before killing the plant.

Gramoxone was highly toxic though.
I've heard of farmers poisoned just from not washing their hands correctly after using it, and also a local sprayer driver walked into a tomato greenhouse to ask the owner a question after using it, and all the tomato plants shrivelled along the sides of the path he'd walked along just from the fumes still on his suit.

I wouldn't be surprised if my dad still has some in the chemical cupboard though, as I dread to think what chemicals are still lingering in there from growing soft fruit for over 40 years