When you say they work very well, are you saying that it will break up the soil to easily release the roots? The related "4-tine digging fork" appears to be more solid (at admittedly close to twice the price). Surely more leverage too. My knees and back thank you!
--------------------------------------------- That's the beast. Was > When you say they work very well, are you saying that it will break
------------------------------------------------------ Lew Hodgett wrote:
It's a total PITA job.
You will have your hands full no matter how you mechanically attack the job.
Your knees and back will really thank you if you use Round-Up.
Lew
If anyone, like me, has never used this tool before, the guy in this video gives a good demo at the end.
In reading product reviews, I'm encountering alot of them that are cheaply made. That's criticism of something other than the tool itself!
Bill
I'm leaving to to get this right now. I will probably use Round-Up too. I believe every word you wrote! --Bill
No, the normal RoundUp only lasts a few days, tops. There is a longer acting (silver bottle, IIRC) that is supposed to last a few months.
Painting it on works just fine. It's the preferred method if the plants around the ones you want to kill are valuable.
oots and runners left behind and gently pull them out."
. Mimosa trees are notorious for having a very shallow root system. A few m onths after removing the stump and lawn-seeding the area formally under the tree, I began to notice Mimosa tree sprouts growing in radial lines from t he spot where the tree used to be. Some of these sprout lines extended 20-3
0 feet from the origin.h were trying to replace the original tree with scores of miniature Mimosas .
ended the season reseeding almost my entire lawn which was destroyed while removing the roots. What a PITA.
What is your definition of "the stump dies" and how long does it take?
The Mimosa that I got rid of was damaged by an ice storm. After it was cut down, I was left with the stump and all of the exposed roots around the stu mp. It was in my front yard and it was an eyesore.
I worked hard to get of the stump as soon as winter was over so I could pat ch the lawn and get my curb appeal back. There is no way I would have wante d to wait weeks/months/years for the stump to die off and rot away.
Even though I'd had to redo the lawn again in the fall because of the roots , by the following spring my lawn was done and looking beautiful. Would the RoundUp have completely removed the stump and allowed to seed the lawn in one season?
I have one of those for my...uh...garden. Good for digging up sweet potatoes.
I live in Texas and here the weeds kill stuff. Kill or be killed.
So the variation in strength is by the volume bottle and by the amount diluted in the sprayer. Yes - I have two sprayers. A plastic one for Roundup and a ceramic steel one for other sprays.
There is a city strength and a strong strength industrial grade.
Mart> Lew Hodgett wrote:
Martin, That's a good idea. I'll be mixing my own, from concentrate, so I'll keep "the recipe" in mind! Good idea! In other news, I'm not the proud owner of a spading fork. I started to write forking hoe instead and I sensed that something seemed dirty about it. I'll have to be more careful in conversation...
Oops typo: that's "I'm NOW the
Nope. I did not mean to imply that the stump would just evaporate. The trees I had problems were in established flower/shrub gardens. I was not about to tackle a 2 foot diameter stump there. The problem was the shoots sprouting from all the far-flung roots. Roundup solved that problem.
The stuff you can buy for at home use is non persistant.
I have found unless you spray the flower on bulbs they do not die.
I know what you are talking about but it is not a pitch fork. A pitch fork is the tool that is on the photo of Ma And Paw Kettle. Typically has 3 or more tines and small in diameter, light weight, for "Pitching" hay.
Potato fork
Typically for a few months. In SE Texas we have a problem with crab grass in our yards. It looks a lot like our regular St.Augustine grass except it grows twice as fast. You can shoot it with Roundup and 3~4 months later the grass grows back, less the crab grass, or you can paint the individual crab grass blades with a Roundup saturated paper towel or small brush.
I have a long stone driveway and use stronger than normal in the stone and edges to fend off the aggressive weeds. Weeds and grasses tend to dislodge stone.
I drive over it, but the grass takes the pressure and keeps on growing.
I use lighter strengths in and around gardens. I use a cardboard shield when spraying around the stone boarders of the various beds.
Briar is a tough nasty vine that lives deep underground. Roundup is one that will be absorbed by growing structure and take it below into the knobs of material from which it comes. Thorns are hard on it.
Natural Ratan has to be just cut by hand. The spongy bark keeps the spray from inner workings of the vine.
We keep the wild grape but cut it back if it gets to much. We had one shot at growing grapes but the weather was to harsh. Maybe in a year or two if it stays wet.
My fancy sprayer is saved for fruit spraying and oils and such. Something that is used to eat.
Mart> Mart>> I live in Texas and here the weeds kill stuff. Kill or be killed. >>
Spade-(i)n-fork. About the size of a D handle shovel but has 4 or 5 tines that are flat or diamond shaped. It is used to dig potatoes and other crops - used to turn and break up soil.
Mart>
I'm please to report that I am very pleased with the performance of the spading fork. I think I have just 2 or maybe 3 more sessions to finish the job. Then I'll use some Round-Up (particularly where it is impossible to dig--think "stacked chucks of concrete"). Thank you for your generous assistance! That is my best find since "Durhams' Water Putty"!
If I could go back and time and give my dad a spading fork, he would have loved it--and he would have gotten a great deal of use out of it! Without a little knowledge, you don't know what he or she is missing! It would be great for "worming" too!
I had a hunch the "Hound-Dog Stand Up Garden Tiller" wasn't going to live up to it's sales pitch... I guess, from the other thread, that some people here would call the people who buy one "idiots", but I think that is a little harsh.
Bill
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