Re: Preem/Preen
- To: perennials@mallorn.com
- Subject: Re: Preem/Preen
- From: M* R* W*
- Date: Wed, 7 Apr 1999 12:28:15 -0500
Valerie,
I've started "painting" (not spraying in beds where there are plants I
want to keep) nasty perennial weeds with a strong solution of Roundup,
and it works real well. Don't pull the weeds first because you need
leaves to put the solution on. Just be sure you don't touch any good
plants, and rub the solution on with a cotton ball or whatever. (We're
not talking about acres of weeds here, right?)
For hard to kill weeds they recommend 6 oz to a gallon of water, and I
usually use more (I'm fighting zoysia grass!). It takes a week or so to
work.
Particularly mean specimens may well need another application later on in
the season.
Mary
MO zone 6
>So, am I to assume that Preen works only on those weeds coming from
>seeds?
>What about those growing from runners or taproots? The problem in my
>garden is those pesky weeds that run rampant underground and come up
>in the
>middle of your perennial clumps.
>
>Right now I'm pulling by hand and it's not getting the job done to my
>satisfaction. I'm still pulling mint, some kind of weed that has a
>yellow
>tufted flower with lime green leaves that grew from some
>not-so-rotten
>manure I spread out (it's underground runners are tough suckers with
>roots
>about the thickness of a #2 pencil), and a tenacious, foul-smelling,
>trailing vine that creeps along overnight it seems. I'd also like to
>get
>rid of some monarda, obedient plant, and lysimachia -- but that's
>another
>post.
>
>Val in KY
>zone 6a
>
>
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