Re: CULT: Pre-germinant weed control

At 10:30 PM 8/30/97 -0600, you wrote:
>Growers all -- I have some lately-developed beds and need to get the
>newly received plants into them before too long. Solarizing these beds
>will take 2-3 weeks, and I would like to plant sooner than that. Does
>anyone have any experience with treating a bed with a pre-germinant weed
>controller such as Gallery, Snapshot or Barricade when one is going to
>plant (or has just planted) newly-dug adult plants? Barricade warns on
>the package that it may cause problems with newly-developing root
>tissue.  I used Snapshot on my seedling beds last year and got no bloom
>this year. Nothing died, but nothing bloomed.
>
>Griff Crump, along the tidal Potomac near Mount Vernon, VA 
>jgcrump@erols.com
>
Griff:

As you know, Glenna and I are not experienced iris growers but we have had
very good results with PREEN, or its variant, PREEN & GREEN which contains a
fertilizer. It generally has held down the usual weeds which grow from
germinating seeds, but of course is useless against crab grass and clover
which spread through roots.  We used it at Sara's recommendation and have
not had any complaint.  I believe (but am not sure) that it is similar in
composition to Snapshot.


Ed

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Edmund L. Castillo in Loudoun Co., VA
castillo@pipeline.com
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