Controlling/eliniminating nimblewill

Sep 24, 2010 12 Replies

Back in July Pat Kiewicz indentified my lawn weed as Nimblewill. I now have figured out how to control/eliminate it. I put on a pair of Vinyl gloves, followed by a pair of heavy cotton gloves that are saturated with Roundup. I grab any/all of the nimblewill I can find and squeeze it. I keep the gloves saturated with Roundup so the chemicals transfer easily, That seems to transfer enough of the Roundup to do the trick, as the weed turns white//ivory-colored in about 4-5 days. Then, it seems to pull out fairly easy, even the roots. Then I scratch the surface and plant grass seed. Roundup says it is ok to plant 7 days after applying and that is how long I have been waiting. So far I have made pretty good progress. more than



1/2 the lawn is done, on a 100 x 200 foot lot minus house and driveway. Biggedt problem is bending over hours at a time.

You can get a wick wiper to apply the glyphosate that will do the same selective application and not require bending or using up gloves.

David.

Thanks for the suggestion, I've never heard of a wick wiper, where do you get such a thing?

Its a long tubular tank with a handle at one end and a thick rope-like wick loop at the other. You can walk around and dab the wick on to whatever you like at ground level or above. I got one from a hardware store that had a garden section. You could make one without a lot of trouble.

David

Thanks, I'll know what to look for my next venture out.

I went to two local garden-type stores, neither had heard of a tool to dispense weed killer onto a wick or any other type of dispenser. Before I try to build one, I thought I would try to buy one. Do you have a brand name, or maybe some other name by which it would be known?

I had one that was Yates Zero Weed Wand but that is in Oz so you may not have it.

David

I went to two local garden-type stores, neither had heard of a tool to dispense weed killer onto a wick or any other type of dispenser. Before I try to build one, I thought I would try to buy one. Do you have a brand name, or maybe some other name by which it would be known? _________________________________ Here are some cites from both the US and Australia so you can 'see' what they look like:

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(I'd be wary of this latter one as the wick is too big - good for really big weeds, but not fine enough for smaller weeds)

Perhaps the op could use this tool ?

Bill:

Can you try the website you gave, I couldn't get it to work even when pasting the two lines into my browser?

Amazon may be preventing the URL.

Goggle

WeedBall Herbicide Applicator by A.M. Leonard

Bill

Worked for me.

Of course if you left the > in as in below A6E5O/ref=sr_1_4?s=home-garden&ie=UTF8&qid=1285666748&sr=1-4>

Remove the > between the F and the A found in the right hand margin on the line above.

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