Round up help

[paul25]

hi could do with some advice. About a month or so ago a friend of my dads who is currently at college studying agriculture told me to use round up to clear my alotment, i was a bit sceptical but i then read an article about clearing weeds in a magazine which also said you could use round up. It also said it is safe on the label. i then had the leftover bottle given to me, I used it on a few weeds in the polytunnel which didnt kill them, but it said it my need to be done more than once. However, i have just read in another thread that it is dangerous. what shoud i do? I was thinking about digging out the weeds that I can see, and removing a chunk of soil with them, but not sure if it killed some of them off, so I won't know where they are and where I used the round up. Please help?

Thanks, Paul

[Two_Sheds]

There are many older threads on this, and people have heated debates about Round Up.

Have a gander:

http://www.growfruitandveg.co.uk/gra...ues_61891.html

http://www.growfruitandveg.co.uk/gra...ate_54599.html

http://www.growfruitandveg.co.uk/gra...eds_57790.html

http://www.growfruitandveg.co.uk/gra...lth_54924.html

[Two_Sheds]

I used it on a few weeds in the polytunnel which didnt kill them

What weeds were they? Poison, imo, should be a last resort, not the first. There are other options:

http://www.growfruitandveg.co.uk/gra...ver_54160.html

http://www.growfruitandveg.co.uk/gra...ing_10628.html

http://www.growfruitandveg.co.uk/gra...tml#post942406

http://www.growfruitandveg.co.uk/gra...ment_5573.html

[paul25]

hi thay were nettle dandelion grass and docleaf feel very silly for getting sucked in I shall not b using anything like that agent the person who told me to use it dos his entire plot with it

[Two_Sheds]

They can all be dug out pretty easily.

If you can't dig, then mulch them heavily with cardboard or similar to kill them with the power of darkness

[Alison]

I've cleared my entire lottie without the need for poisons for which I'm quite proud. However I'm aware other people don't have a problem with it and will use it quite happily in a controlled way. Having said that, as said above, the weeds you're talking about can be dug out pretty easily and I can't recommend the cardboard approach more strongly, it really does work well although obviously takes a while.

[Two_Sheds]

other people ...will use it quite happily in a controlled way.

I use it, carefully, on the bindweed that keeps coming in from next door. I've dug, mulched and pulled it out for 4 years and it comes back stronger than ever, because next door doesn't control it. By the time it shows itself on my plot, it's all in amongst my growing crops where I can't get to dig it.

Last year I let the bindweed grow long/tall, up canes. Then I took out the cane and let the bindweed bathe in a shallow dish of Round Up so it was totally covered. This was really successful, I used hardly any of the poison and it didn't get on anything else ~ with spraying, it tends to go everywhere and you waste a lot.


Having done that, I would now repeat it, but I'll be using a dish of vinegar instead of Round Up.

[paul25]

thanks for the advice would you say if a dug them out and removed a bit extra soil as well it would b ok to grow veg in there it’s not been watered since it wos don and only the leaf that woz sprayed or would it of spread in the soil thanx paul

[Two_Sheds]

You can plant into that soil, don't worry too much

btw, you sprayed at the wrong time of year. If you do use Round Up (glyphosate) you have to use it when the weed is in full growth/greenery .... not in the winter.

It's because it must be taken up by the leaves and travels through the plant's system to kill the roots

[Poolcue]

I have not used any chemicals on my plot and at times the weeding has been back breaking.However on my shared path my allotment neighbour used something and it provided a quick fix.

[Snadger]

I have not used any chemicals on my plot and at times the weeding has been back breaking.However on my shared path my allotment neighbour used something and it provided a quick fix.

Three of sand, six of gravel and one of cement..................

[Snadger]

Round Up was developed by Monsanto............need I say more!

[lottie dolly]

Three of sand, six of gravel and one of cement..................

lol snadger,some sites will not allow it,grass only,know what you mean though,we got a few more slabs to lay

[taff]

kill them with the power of darkness

or use the force.....
I couldn't help it, I was seized by the funny

[Speed Gardener]

I'll definitely be using it this year, but only on bindweed. I have several large fruit enclosures growing mainly currants and gooseberries and for the last three or four years I put down a double layer of cardboard boxes and six inches of manure around all the bushes. By the time the bindweed got going, I had the fruit off and in the freezer.
Last year's boiling hot spring gave the bindweed a head start and I was fighting it to get at the fruit and I had to throw away all my nets as they were badly full of bindweed. It came up everywhere, in places where it had never been before.
Then a friend of mine gave me a tip she got from an old boy on her site who doesn't have a bindweed problem: Get a bucket of glyphosate, a boom handle and a radiator roller. As the bindweed comes up, simply paint it with the weedkiller. No overspray, no more bindweed! That's the theory, anyway, we shall see...