Re: Pre-Emergent Herbicides
- Subject: Re: Pre-Emergent Herbicides
- From: "Sandra Fain" s*@earthlink.net
- Date: Sun, 6 Mar 2005 11:02:44 -0700
Viktoria, thank you for writing about the nontoxic control. I am the only
one around here who does not put chemicals on ground. With that said, I
will say that I am toward the bottom of the hill which means I get the
runoff.
TO ALL THE POSTERS OF SEEDLINGS: Don't any of you have UGLY seedlings?
LOL Sandra
> [Original Message]
> From: Viktoria Serafin <viktoria@glenbrookplants.com>
> To: <hosta-open@hort.net>
> Date: 3/3/2005 10:15:25 PM
> Subject: Re: Pre-Emergent Herbicides
>
> Hi, Bill,
>
> I have not conducted side-by-side comparisons, but undoubtedly someone
has.
> Suffice it to say that I do not have a weed problem, and should there be
> some small difference in efficacy, to my way of thinking, the the lack of
> toxicity is an advantage that overrides it.
>
> Viktoria
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Bill Meyer" <njhosta@hotmail.com>
> To: <hosta-open@hort.net>
> Sent: Wednesday, March 02, 2005 2:20 PM
> Subject: Re: Pre-Emergent Herbicides
>
>
> > Hi Viktoria,
> > I have heard of corn gluten as a pre-emegrent but not of how well it
> > works. You're the first person I've heard having experience with it.
Does
> > it
> > perform as well as Surflan and Treflan? The latter do a very good job,
> > eliminating the vast majority of annual weeds. As long as they are not
> > used
> > to excess they are pretty safe for everything but small roots.
> > ......Bill Meyer
> >
> >
> >
> >> I vastly prefer to use corn gluten (Amaize, WOW, Safe and Simple etc.)
> >> for
> >> pre-emergent weed control because of virtually no toxicity at all. It
is
> >> best applied in early season before foliage unfurls because it will
> >> damage
> >> leaves if applied in wet conditions (but will not kill the plants).
The
> >> drawback is that you must think a year ahead: 90% of the effect is in
the
> >> following year. In my state it can only be sold as a fertilizer
(8-0-0),
> >> but the pre-emergent effect has been documented in university studies.
> >
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