Grass spray
Grass spray
Does anyone have any advice on how to rid a rural block of all the shitty random weeds and long grass that shoots up ? Can't use livestock as too many trees we don't want eaten. I'm thinking something similar to round up spray but need to be careful I don't kill our trees or bugger the soil. I tried hand weeding but can't stay on top of it.
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Understood that you don't want to use livestock but have you considered geese? They have proved to be great weeders, and a supplementary food source as a bonus.
Roundup will kill everything including the weeds for a season or so.....the wet season usually washes it right out...then even more weeds!ricecakes wrote:Does anyone have any advice on how to rid a rural block of all the shitty random weeds and long grass that shoots up ? Can't use livestock as too many trees we don't want eaten. I'm thinking something similar to round up spray but need to be careful I don't kill our trees or bugger the soil. I tried hand weeding but can't stay on top of it.
If you do not want to use cows or geese/ducks/chickens and do not want to hand weed then you may be better getting a local worker to clear it for you.
Coupe of dollars a month...fixed?
But - How big is the block?
Would some permaculture/mulching work there to kill off the weeds and promote useful crops? Develop the soil while fixing the weeds......
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Depends on the type of weeds. If they are the regular weed weeds, or small grasses then they will need to be chipped out with a hoe (as the locals do) from time to time.ricecakes wrote: Hand weeding was fine until the recent rain and then....
On the other hand, if it's something like 'Johnson Grass', which spreads by its underground labyrinth of rhizomes as well as from seeds, that is completely different.
I have the Johnson Grass problem on a 2.5 hectare plot. One day, when I get myself a round tuit, I was planning on doing the following.
* Cut it all down with a Stihl brushcutter, and leave it to rot naturally.
* After the rains start and the new growth gets to about 12" (30 cm), or thereabouts, spray it with Roundup. (Select a day when there is no rain forecast, but, just in case, you can add a little dish-washing liquid to the Roundup which will help it stick to the leaves better/longer.
* Don't touch the dying grass. Let it rot by itself. No brushcutter, No hoes, for several months.
* A couple/few months later, deal with any new growth.
I would then leave the rhizomes untouched underground to help bond the soil together. Any that attempt to regrow the following year will get dealt with again, as above.
But, anyway, that was just a plan. I haven't gotten around to it yet. But, one day . . . . .
Let a couple of homeless families with 6 kids camp on the land for a few months and they will soon trample all the weeds down until there is only dust, or you could just rotary hoe the area and get someone to plant veggies on it.
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Probably won't get Stihl. But, Kubota aren't a bad brand. Had a couple of Kubota mowers some years back, but not here.ricecakes wrote:Sounds like a plan but where to get stihl here ? I left mine at home . I've been looking at brush cutters in shops but they are all shite quality.
Check Yellow Pages, search for Kubota. There are Kubota dealers selling tractors and such, they might have brushcutters.