What is Ozbargain's community favourite weed killer?
List your brand and pricing. Would be useful if you can share few liners on your experience and best way to use it.
OzBargain's Favourite Weed Killer
Ash-Say on 15/06/2020 - 16:19
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A lot of brands of weed killers have the same ingredients, sometimes with different strengths but often exactly the same. We use Kamba M for the lawn and paddocks, or a cheaper version of it!
Products like Roundup NEVER go bad as it is a suspended salt. I have some from the 90's we are still using, so bulk buy and last a lifetime! It will more likely last your lifetime if you spray it on yourself though…
I bought last from specialistsales.com.au as their prices are pretty good across the board.
Richgro Beat-A-Weed Natural Weedkiller
It works for me and 1/3 of the price of Slasher. I think it is just salt and vinegar, but the concentration of the vinegar is higher than the grocery store vinegar.
A float.
The most reliable weed killer there is.
If you don't care about the surrounding plants - boiling water or salt.
If you do care about the surround plants, pull them out (once you get into it it is incredibly therapeutic) and put some weed matting down. You can buy it or go Ozbargain style and use thick plastic (if not growing food), or untreated cardboard if you are.
Hortico from Bunnings. Check the ingredients, basically identical to Roundup but waaaaay cheaper.
Been using it for years, always worked well for me.
So Glyphosate? It’s sold under quite a few brands.
Yeah but who has ever heard of that? Are you going to remember a chemical compound name or a brand?
Also if you google "Glyphosate bunnings" (because really, where else are you going to buy some weed killer), top result, Hortico.
Pretty much anyone in this thread has heard of it. It’s well known and has been around for quite a while.
Depends what you are trying to kill. MCPA, Metsulfron or 2,4-D if you are being selective and trying to kill certain weeds and not grass..
Glyphosate if you want to kill grass too.
Paraquat if you want to kill EVERYTHING (including yourself and your neighbours possibly).
A permit is required to buy paraquat. I wouldn't be spot spraying with Paraquat.
Yates 1litre concentrate of Glyphosate lasted 12 years. 8ml mixed with a litre of water then spray on weeds. Kills all it touches.
Yeah you need surprisingly little glyphosate to do the job.
Most people overdo it, myself included.
I have no luck with any weed killer I think most are just a gimmick, especially on my gravel along the sides of the house….seems to come back faster no matter how ofter I spray. In the end the best solution might be to concrete everything!
… and that’s exactly what a bloke near me did. It wasn’t so much the weeds, he just hated mowing. So he concreted his entire front and backyards. Looks pretty ordinary, but hey.
Try mixing some sort of 'path weeder' with a glyphosate concentrate. Yates make one that does the job, but its not very concentrated.
Glyphosate kills everything but it doesn't seem to last, whereas the addition of a path weeder keeps it down for longer. I think it's got some sort of salt in it. I get maybe 2-3 months per application once you've got it under control with just some small weeds.
I use this on toppings (tuscan / lilycan toppings) and rocks though though so I don't really have to care about killing plants….grass is too much maintenance.
For weeds around the very few areas I have plants I either use glyphosate with the nozzle set to a 'beam?' rather than spray really close or if they're right next to a plant I tap them with one of those weed wands.
Glyphosate kills everything but it doesn't seem to last,
It's a feature, not a bug.
That's what makes it safer than other stuff, it breaks down after a few weeks and doesn't accumulate in the environment.
It breaks down very quickly, you can replant as soon as the day after.
Need to give the weeds time to properly die though, so generally leave it a week or so for this reason.
@trapper: It dries in like 30 minutes so it won't bother new plantings, but it still takes a couple of weeks to break down. You don't want your animals chewing on stuff for a while.
kleen lawn
I went to Bunnings yesterday and was recommended to use following as I want to kill weed growing within lawn. Any reviews on this product?
Worked fine for me!
I am going to try this same thing this weekend. Do let us know your result. Broadleaf weed looks like fenugreek leaves. It's like a jungle on the verge lawn!
I use that for the lawn and it’s pretty good. Usually a bit slower acting than some of the others but also doesn’t damage the lawn so much. If you have lots or stubborn weeds then respray after two weeks.
You actually ASKED a Bunnings’ employee for meaningful information about one of their stock items????
Depends on the lawn type and the weeds you're controlling. That will do a good job of most broadleaf weeds in most lawns. Won't do anything for grassy weeds.
Avoid glyphosate if you value your/pets health, scary some of the studies coming out, my recipe is as follows;
- 1 Litre of cleaning vinegar
- add two teaspoons of dish soap which acts as a binding agent.Wait a few days & you will see results, re-apply as needed. Some people add salt to this recipe but it's not required and can damage soil & any regrowth if you plan to plant something else later on.
Once glyphosate has dried it's not dangerous for pets.
From memory you just need them away from all plants etc for 4-5 hours.
I just do it on a day when I'm home and lock the doggy door. My dog's fine and I've been doing this for years.
Has anyone tried one of these or similar?
https://www.bunnings.com.au/tradeflame-870mm-propane-torch-w…
I've got a similar one and they work well, until the propane is used enough that pressure drops. Mine doesn't have much of a regulator, so you get great hot flames for a while, then a slower flame. Still works, just slower.
Also, really handy for lighting bonfires or the fireplace!
I'm perfectly happy with my weed killing regime but I really want to buy one of these lol.
Who doesn't want to kill weeds with a flamethrower?
It certainly is fun but easy to get carried away, so make sure you have a hose on standby. Also, don't be tempted to get the cheaper butane versions. They're rubbish.
I have invasive thin long roots starting to grow into my garden bed along the fence line that appears to be coming from the neighbours side. I'm unable to identify if the root is coming from a pear tree or a profilic climber they have on their side of the fence.
It's invaded the whole garden bed with roots with some as thick as your phone charger width.I'm thinking of relocating the plants that I've transplanted into the garden bed 4 months ago and nuking those roots as they seem to be stealing all my fertiliser nutrients and my plants are barely growing.
How do I kill these roots system - glysophate or something else? hopefully something that will also kill the offending plant on the neigbour's side but I can't physically go over and cut it down.
Don’t poison them, it’ll kill the tree (which may or may not work out well for you) Cut them out and then put a root barrier into the garden bed.
I like the idea but not sure if it will work, we have a 80cm retaining wall fence (we are on the high side) and these roots are still finding its way to get over to my side of the garden bed as shallow as 10cm deep off my ground (so 70cm high from neighbours side). I'm thinking an effective erradication strategy is the only way.
Tarp
The Australian Federal Police.
I print out JV's comments and lay them face down on the grass, works really effectively.
Nah man… Carcinogenic!
Thoughts on Path Weeder vs Glyphosate based Weed Killers?
Glyphosate based
They only kill what you spray it on, doesn't stop anything new growing there.
Bromoxynil,MCPA for more simple problems
Iodosulfuron-methyl-sodium for more complex issues.
Halosulfuron methyl for some specific weeds.
High level of safety on couch, kikuyu and most varieties of buffalo grass in all.
Keep in mind the second option (Bayer Destiny) is not really an option for home use. The first you can get from Bunnings (Hortico 500ml Weed Killer For Buffalo Lawns). The third (Sedgehammer) I've never used as the first is a more broader option and safer.
In my place I just use Bromoxynil,MCPA (not often) and glyphosate for weeds on driveways or for paths etc.
All options above are my second option, first is always to manually remove them.
aldis brand of weedkiller works good
I had replanted my entire lawn from Buffalo grassroots recently. In two weeks I had plenty of weeds. Used this to kill big leaf weeds
https://www.bunnings.com.au/amgrow-250ml-bin-die-selective-l…
And used this to kill thin winter grass.
https://www.bunnings.com.au/amgrow-100ml-winter-grass-killer…There were ceratin cheaper weeders but, does not go with Buffalo grass. Good luck on your lawn.
Cardboard and newspaper. Lay a thick layer over any weeds you see. Take away after a couple months, lack of sunlight… they be dead.
Smoking them works pretty well for me.
Glyphosate in the media again. Massive compensation in US. Still sellingnin Aus.
https://www.smh.com.au/business/companies/bayer-to-keep-sell…
The large corporations can do as they please in each country based on regulation for profits even knowing something is wrong with the product .
Otherwise they wouldn't be paying out 14 bil compensation .I’m also wary of the legal system results, especially in the US, when such massive payouts are awarded. The lawyers on both sides stand to make a LOT of money out of it which is a warning that there may be more than just straight science involved. The science is clouded by those who pay for it. In addition to that proving, without doubt, the specific cause of a cancer is very difficult and may be impacted by dozens of different factors in each different person.
As for roundup and similar, I’m happy to use small quantities taking reasonable precautions. In small quantities with proper precautions the risk is probably no more significant than a hundred other things we use daily.
Still selling in the US too. Judge also just ruled that they don't have to put a cancer warning on.
Settlements are not proof of science or causation.Its a joke but at least its on mainstream media and rational people won't go near it .
The power of $$$$$$$$$ .Unfortunately this product is up against massive $ from both sides and an awful lot of ‘woke’ sheeple who believe any crackpot on the internet.
There is truth somewhere, but it’s not ‘glyphosate is perfectly safe’ soured by the money makers nor is it ‘glyphosate will give you cancer/autism if you ever get a drop on you’ spouted by the crackpots. It’s somewhere in between.
I guess I'm not rational then. I'll certainly go near it. It's a great non-selective weedkiller. But I'll avoid inhaling it or getting it on my skin (like I would any harsh chemical).
As Euphemistic says. The truth is bound to be in the middle. It's likely not perfectly safe if used without precaution (whether cancer is the risk or something else ¯\_(ツ)_/¯), but it's likely perfectly safe if you use it appropriately with correct PPE.
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This only works if you will always have chickens as soon as you don't the weeds will be 10x worse.