Anyone used SBK ?

No, I used it on brambles where it was very effective.

Can?t help you other than to say that I spent a lot of money with little to show for it on various lawn treatments. I now employ a lawn care firm who treat my lawn four times a year with vastly better results. Just something to think about. I may well be cheaper than you think.

Tim

Vitax SBK Brushwood Killer is a selective weedkiller for brambles, nettles, dock, woody weeds, hardwood saplings and tree stumps in grass and other neglected non-crop areas. It does not kill grass.

You might have better results with Verdone (although the new stuff is not as good as the original). For big areas, Grazon Pro.

You need the weeds to be growing well, so cold snaps don't help.

I don't know where you are but SBK (like some other such) warns it should not be applied during drought conditions and April has been rather dry in England in particular.

If that is what is in the weed and feed mix I use, the answer is it takes a lot of time when its neither raining nor warm enough for growth But it does work in time.

It (Triclopyr) is slow even when compared to glyphosate (which starts to show characteristic orangey yellowing damage at about two weeks).

It will be slower still at the moment since it is not recommended to use it during a drought. Weedol for Lawns (mostly MCPA) is a much faster acting lawn weedkiller (but be sure to buy exactly the right one).

Weedol used to be a brand of diquat/paraquat kills everything stone dead (including anyone stupid enough to drink it) weedkiller until the "brilliant" marketeers decided to use the brand name for all sorts.

You can now get Roundup(TM) products containing no glyphosate and other complete idiocies. eg.

Beware that the weedkiller you have used is rather too persistent so that compost made from the grass cuttings will be bad for other plants. The damage done taking a long time to show.

Someone recommended spraying weeds with neat vinegar. I was more than dubious but tried it and, sure enough, it works. It takes a couple of applications in some cases and perhaps a week to work but it killed off a number of weeds which came up between the gaps in our block paving.

"Pastor" is very effective. I think youneed a licence toget it now in the UK.

The problem with common weeds, as you might guess, is that they are common. We have had a lot of wind and thus a lot of seeds will no doubt be in lawns everywhere. I've never found anything totally successful. Brian

Verdone/Grammoxone(sp?) as was worked pretty well. Lawn weedkillers like Weedol for Lawns containing MCPA still work fairly well used correctly.

It is quite a big ask to selectively kill everything except grass.

Er...I thought Gramoxone was paraquat, a non-selective herbicide that killed just about everything, including people, and has long since been withdrawn. But surely Verdone never contained it.