Newbie in Gardening.
How to get rid of weeds? Sick and tired of mowing every month.
After mowing is there a suggested weed spray I can use for my backyard?
Image is a portion of my back yard. This one spreads everywhere.
Also is it advisable to mow when the weeds wet?
Thanks for your time.
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Where is weed? isnt that a veggie plant?
Just finished mowing…
Im a complete newbie in gardening too, but typing "How to Get Rid of Weeds" into google gave me tons of advice and info, with photos and stuff too. I suggest you try that.
Thanks. Will do that.
I wanted to know whether buying a weed sprayer is worth it.
Are you talking about the ivy on/along the fence? Trace it to the biggest root, cut through it and rip it out of the ground.
I think that’s morning glory not ivy.
Yes thats the one its running across my neighbors garden as well. Most of the roots are tracked back to my Neighbor’s house. I am cutting it half way through and wanted to spray across the borders. I would also check out any weed sprayer.
Painting the cut root with blackberry killer (ask at Bunnings) should work. A mate pored a full mixed bottle around his drain outside the bathroom years ago and that tiny area is still a mini waste land.
Salt water
Thanks, will try it out.
Don't bother, doesn't work.
The theory is it kills the roots. It doesn't.
Salting the earth works, but kills everything and leaves you with mud.
@Loopholio: Every tried it?
You need a LOT of salt, and it gets washed away fairly quickly. And then the weeds come back.
Every hippy save the planet website has the vinegar & salt weed killer, none of them have ever tried it.
@D C: No I have not tried it nor will I ever. My mother used to use pool salt for edging which worked very well. Blackberry killer targeted on roots and stumps will get the job done with far less risk (unless the instructions are ignored).
Good luck with that one you will have to keep digging it out to get rid of it
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Vinegar in a sprayer
Waste of time. It burns a few leaves, doesn't affect the roots, and grows back.
Roundup or any other Glyco 360
Takes a couple of weeks and they are gone forever
But… but … cancer … conspiracy… Monsanto
(I use it, sparingly and take precautions. Don’t bathe in it)
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Get one of those little pump sprayers, like these: https://www.aliexpress.com/item/33008878323.html.
I just use one of these: https://www.aliexpress.com/item/33025005745.html, screws onto a 2L drink bottle.
Get some concentrated glyphosate aka RoundUp: https://www.bunnings.com.au/roundup-1l-weed-killer-concentra…, mix, pump & spray.
I got a bottle from Aldi years ago (about $10 for 2L) and I'm probably only halfway thru it. You don't use much of the concentrate (20mL/litre for the stuff I have) and you only need to do it every couple of weeks in summer.
I second this, you just need to be patient as it takes a few weeks for them to properly die and turn brown. If you have weeds growing in your lawn though try using a "Feed & Weed" spray as it only kills broadleaf plants and not grass. Make sure you pull out the roots as much as possible when weeding too.
Thanks Donga. Sure will do. 🙂
Thank You D C for your suggestions with pointers. 🙏🏼
I’l follow from this week onwards.
Thanks for your time.
Shame about the wooden fence…
Cut all the vines back by hand, and then paint a herbicide onto all the exposed cut areas that go into the ground.
Morning glory infestation is a PITA to remove (the smallest root fragment is an excuse for it to keep sprouting!). Your best bet is regular herbicide spraying as mentioned by "D C" above.
Pull it by hand. Yes its a shit job but better than Round Up. Don't use that shit, especially if you have kids or pets.
Yeah, by hand. However, what about putting a border around your garden, put heavy plastic on the ground/multiple layers of heavy carboard and cover with woodchips. That will mean the edges wont get weeds for a few years and you just have to mow.
Cardboard is best in case you want to plant there in the future, so you don't have to spend a lot of time pulling up the plastic
Never thought cardboards will be used for this. Definitely try this…Thanks.
That's gonna need a spraying. Numerous times, as said above.
Agent Orange.
…or more commonly known as RoundUp, lol
mwalks. See my post below.
The best way is the keep pulling them out BEFORE you mow the lawn.
If you do it afterwards you may well have spread the weed seeds around and more weeds will grow
take some of your grass and some of your weeds to a garden shop or bunnings nursery or better yet, an agricultural supplier.
They should be able to suggest a decent weed killer to use without killing your grass.
I use a broad leaf weed spray on my couch grass, to kill all of the capeweed that grows through.
If I use it out the back on my buffalo it will kill the grass.
Oh dear.
More misinformation.
It has nothing to do with Roundup.
It's a mixture of equal parts of two herbicides, 2,4,5-T and 2,4-D. Traces of dioxin mainly TCDD, are also found in the mixture.
It was a joke, son.
OzB needs someone to post a deal on humour & sarcasm recalibrations.
Had the same problem with a neighbour's passionfruit vine. I painted it with undiluted roundup and it eventually died. Every now and then new growth emerges from a runner and it gets the same treatment. Problem controlled.
If you go to Bunnings or supermarkets store like Coles you can get Weed Killers in bottles/tins. Just spray over the weeds, few days later all dried up. Very effective except a bit pricy and expensive.
There is no simple single action solution. Remove, poison - repeat as necessary. Weeds by their nature will keep regrowing so it’s an ongoing battle.
Best option is to physically remove as much as you can initially hen poison selectively and keep on top of it. Let it go for two long and you’ll be back at square one very quickly.
"Tree and Blackberry Killer".(Highly Toxic) Persist with this and they will be gone.
You can tell. 😆