Clearing weeds/grass

[DEAGLER]

I?m laying down mulch but I want to kill all the weeds/grass first before laying weed barrier. Anyting recommendations on ground clear?

[20X11]

Industrial vinegar (30% acetic acid) 1 gallon + 1qt pure citrus oil. Put in a sprayer, shake it up, spray it on. Weeds/grass will be dead in hours.

[SideShow Bob]

Better living through modern chemistry. Ortho ground clear.

[kwando]

flame thrower

[crays]

Nuke it from orbit.

Sent from somewhere...

[Wulf202]

Ortho ground clear as long as you're not worried about anything down stream. If you need it in bulk look up a product called Mojave

[20X11]

Old school way is a couple gallons of Diesel Fuel

[buffalobo]

Goats

[XJ]

Wait for rain to tame dust and pollen.


Any other year I gave it no thought to tolerate sneezing and coughing, but now I am patiently waiting for natural moisture before touching anything in the yard.

[BPTactical]

Industrial vinegar (30% acetic acid) 1 gallon + 1qt pure citrus oil. Put in a sprayer, shake it up, spray it on. Weeds/grass will be dead in hours.

I have used 1 gallon of water, 1 gallon of vinegar and 5# of rock salt dissolved in the past.
Nukes it well.

[ray1970]

This stuff. Makes the Ortho crap look like plant food.

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[rondog]

I don't know - I used to use Roundup sparingly in our backyard, and I suspect in may have hastened the demise of our two Beagles with their tumors, skin problems, and kidney disease. I don't think I'll ever use it again where we have doggies.....

[fj605]

I've heard you can lay cardboard out and it will kill anything growing by smothering it. You wouldn't need to wait for herbicide to do it's thing. Just lay cardboard and immediately roll out the landscape fabric.

[Great-Kazoo]

pasture pro for ll broad leaf weeds. Once dry it's livestock / pet safe to roam.


For an area where no grass, or other plants will be laid down. Ground clear for chemicals. OR the vinegar solution mixed with a liquid soap to adhere to the weeds as well as some form of salt.
The salt does a so called sterilization of the dirt, where things will not grow afterward.

[ChickNorris]

Salting is a bit biblical.

Most residential chem products already have a surfactant mixed in.

Bulk commercial products usually need to have one added, if I recall correctly.

Some weed seeds can lay dormant for 100 yrs.

I recommend using a woven fabric barrier & not anything plastic. Overlap the seam generously or you'll have racing stripes later.

[rondog]

Salting is a bit biblical.

Most residential chem products already have a surfactant mixed in.

Bulk commercial products usually need to have one added, if I recall correctly.

Some weed seeds can lay dormant for 100 yrs.

I recommend using a woven fabric barrier & not anything plastic. Overlap the seam generously or you'll have racing stripes later.

Sounds legit.....too damned old and broken up though....

[Irving]

Some weed seeds can lay dormant for 100 yrs.

Yeah too bad most don't.

[ray1970]

Right? Somebody send my weeds an email when I kill them. I?ll even cut them some slack in the 100 years. Tell them to lay dormant for about 25 and I should be good to go.

[Gman]

Old school way is a couple gallons of Diesel Fuel
The benchmark that weed killers are compared against, diesel.

I'm monitoring this as I have weeds coming back in spades this year. I also have to consider the doggo getting into it.