Re: Hort. Dye to colour Roundup
- Subject: Re: Hort. Dye to colour Roundup
- From: P* T*
- Date: Fri, 22 Jun 2001 12:38:17 +1000
Re "Horticultural Dye"......
I run a garden maintenance business and often use Glyphosate. I mix it up
myself using the concentrated. Works out much cheaper than buying the
commercially mixed stuff. I find that adding a dye is invaluable to
identifying where you have sprayed, and more importantly, whether I have
sparyed something I didn't want to spray.
What do I use as a dye????? Food colouring!! I buy blue food colouring
from Woolworths. I use the blue because it is a bit more unobtrusive than
the red. A bit less obvious in my client's gardens but still useful to
identify. The blue still shows up quite well, without using HUGE amounts
of it. It gives a blue shade to plants I've sprayed.
Hope that is of some help.
Cheers.
Paul Tyerman
Canberra, Australia. USDA equivalent - Zone 8
p*@ozemail.com.au
Growing.... Galanthus, Erythroniums, Fritillarias, Crocus, Cyrtanthus,
Liliums, Hellebores, Aroids, Irises plus just about anything else that
doesn't move!!!!!
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