Buy Roundup Now!

Monsanto still make the stuff.

I don't want to provoke the farm chemical store police so I won't brag:-)

Are you sure it wasn't 'agent orange' ?. I believe BR was able to use something related to it on ballast and lineside foliage for years.

I got some online last year

I always understood in the grand old days of British Rail that it was sodium chlorate

Not for brambles ...

It was banned as a weedkiller, i.e. as something that kills plants in lawns, plots, grass...

It is still available (at least as I search for it now, from within the EU: Amazon, ebay, online ag supply shops, ...) as a cleaner for patios, and stone slabs, with plenty of warnings as to what runoff will do to flowers beds and lawns nearby. ISTR the stuff easily available is about 30% active ingredient, possibly too little to make it pop, but still enough to set your pants on fire. The other 70% are salt and crud, I think.

Thomas Prufer

ITYM it should be illegal to use chemical weedkillers. Killing weeds is still allowed :-)

(the EDM hasn't gone anywhere, as they tend not to:)

I would have thought that all weedkillers are chemical.

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Hemlock reported today growing wild at a bus stop just up the road from me.

'Weedkillers' != 'killing weeds'. Digging them up, hoeing them or mulching doesn't need chemicals. I suppose it's arguable whether a BFO flamethrower is a chemical method :-)

Unless we want to get philosophical and say that the arm holding the spade is powered by chemical action...

Theo

Yes, for brambles

Very much for brambles. Sodium chlorate kills EVERYTHING.

Look it up. And it persists a long time in the soil, too.

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OK, how about a strimmer?

It's usually sold with something that makes it useless as an explosive. I didnt think you could still get it without some sort of chemical license.

It really is the best weedkiller for e,g, gravel drives

One popped up in my garden once.

Nasty stuff. Giant hogweed is another curse.

Not philosophical, just accurate

I want some of that . On the other hand..

Brian

LOL.

Chlorate is not to be trifled with.

BUT you can get it by electrolysing a salt solution and filtering out the 'copper chloride'

Look it up. Or by boiling bleach.

If scorched earth is the aim, dont bother to filter...

You just think you have eradicated it. It's just biding its time.

School milk?