Re: CULT: Round-Up
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- Subject: Re: CULT: Round-Up
- From: D* B* <d*@llano.net>
- Date: Wed, 22 Apr 1998 20:31:44 -0600 (MDT)
> The reason I have to do
> battle every year is that seeds are blown onto my property from
> surrounding areas where owners have given up or are not even trying to
> control these beasties, which have become a serious problem thruout the
> East Slope foothills & plains.
This is the reason I continue to use Round-Up, although instead of
thistles we have field bind weed. It is everywhere. Even though we
fight it tooth and nail most of our neighbors feel they have done their
duty if they mow once or twice a year.
> After reading Dana's post I was wondering what revenge was taken against
> the
> "knowledgeable" irisarians who would even recommend testing of such a risky
> manuever (overspraying with Round-up).
I told them how well it worked. No, not really but I wanted too!
> This result may have had a lot to do with timing. Late in the year, the sap
> pressure in plants is downward and so a systemic will be translocated
> relatively
> quickly to the rhizome and roots. Had the spraying been done in the spring
> when
> the sap pressure is upward, the damage probably would have been less.
>
You may well be right but, I did not have the problems earlier in the
year. On top of that about the only time you can get a serious kill on
the bind weed is to spray when it is blooming.
I have also used a "chem-hoe" with some success. The only problem I
have run into with this is if you practice bare dirt gardening then
wiping the "chem-hoe" across those patches of dirt clogs the chem hoe.
Oh well, another lesson learned and I did get a lot of new iris out of
it!!
--
Dana Brown, Lubbock, Texas Zone 7 Usda, Zone 10 Sunset
Where we are 3,241 ft above sea level, with an average rainfall of
17.76". Our average wind speed is 12.5 mph and we have an average
of 164 days of clear weather, 96 of which dip below freezing.
