Best brush killing spray

[Hoosier_Daddy]

You all like the smell of diesel........... That keeps the fence row knocked down petty good.......... Wife did a number on the lawn while using bleach on something......... Had to dig out the soil and replace with fresh............. Tom

 

[Driver]

Pete,

Have you had any regrowth yet from the old root of the Canadian thistle? I have read that root kill can be accomplished by injecting vinegar into the stem so that it is drawn down into the root.

Driver

 

[cp1969]

2,4,5-T is good brush killer. It probably isn't available any more, though, as it is basically Agent Orange.

It has a strange ability to attract frogs. I once rinsed out a Cessna Agwagon that had just sprayed 2,4,5-T and the next morning there were hundreds of little frogs lying dead in the area where the rinse drained.

 

[Anonymous Poster]

Vinegar works even better when you mix in the second natural ingredient, table salt.
1 gal brown vinegar + 1# table salt + 1 drop dishwashing soap = I gallon of superdeath to vegitation and a little salt left undisolved.
Make certain to thoroughly wash out the sprayer.
It definitely will kill vegitation in the middle of a gravel driveway and last about 30 days.

 

[bmabe]

Franz,
Does this mixture leach or migrate? Sounds awfully good, but wouldn't want something potent being washed into adjoining field. I've read about the use of "industrial strength" vinegar as an organic herbicide on the Garden Web, but haven't tried except to shoot some moss patches that formed on my roof shingles. Guess the kitchen grade vinegar wasn;t strong enough.
Barry

 

[Hoosier_Daddy]

I remember as a kid my Dad put softner salt on a fence row at our cottage. The field on the other side of the fence had a lot of sheep and a goat. The following weekend when we arrived the fence was dug out in several places with these little piles of cannon balls all over the place. There was no doubt that sheep liked the salt treat. Tom

 

[TBone]

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My local farm store has a brand called "Kills All" which is 46% Glyphosate. Sells for $95. for 2 and 1/2 gallons. Like everyone says it works faster and better on hot sunny days during the growing season. Woody plants require a higher concentration than grasses and weeds.

TBone

 

[patrickg]

I had great sucess with Remedy, defoliating persimmons and killing many of them. It also killed summac, poison ivy/oak, multiflora rose, blackberry, etc. Oh yeah, I was spraying a pasture to kill Ceresea Lespideza (sp?). AKA "poor man's alfalfa". It did not harm the native grasses but will kill clover and other broad leaf plants. It is a bit pricy but quite effective. I mixed in a good surfactant to get good wetting of the leaves. It biodegrades fairly quickly and even with lactating cows you don't have to keep them off too long. For butchering purposes it is just a few days after spraying till the "all clear." As was said earlier, Crossbow is good stuff too.

Tordon (sp?) is a good brush killer for highly resistant plants like Persimmon which are a colony with nearby plants interconnected by the roots in mutual support (up to several feet apart). It is injected in small quantities into the ground next to the plant or in a thicket the injections are made according to a grid pattern which reduces the material needed for a good kill. Powerful stuff but since it isn't sprayed there is little danger of collateral damage due to wind drift.

Patrick

 

[Anonymous Poster]

Never had any problem with migration. This stuff works so quick you can see the weed wilt in about an hour, and look terminal the next day.
For moss, you might want to try a supersaturated solution of pool chlorine in water, that will do in the worst mildew and seems to kill moss too.

 

[cisco]

RoundUp plays the game of packaging the same chemical in various concentrations. The routine "weed" concentration recommendation doesn't work on much - certainly not poison ivy, brush, etc. - but, after a number of marginally successful applications - I evolved to using twice the recommended strength recommended for "commercial applications" (so, that's 5 fl oz of the 50.2% concentrate) - added a little dishwashing liquid, mixed in a 3 gallon "backpack" type of sprayer, and walked around the property spot applying such to the poison ivy and sumac, bramble bushes and so on - everything died, in 1 application - just don't get the stuff on anything valuable. Such, of course, is not the solution for large areas (acres), as it's a bit costly - but for eliminating stuff in a limited area, and then have the ability to plant/seed something else right away, it's the ticket.