Roundup/Glyphosphate

I've been using Roundup on the drive and garden but it's pretty expensive at ~£18.99 for 5 litres. Is there a cheaper source for 'glyphosphate', sold as such, rather than the branded version?

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F
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Forget the ~£18.99, that was from a duff link. ~£22 seems to be more like the going rate!

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F

EBay ?

33.50 istr for 5 litres concentrated

Jim K

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JimK

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Note this is undiluted. Dilute at about 1.5:100.

Bill

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Bill Wright

Agri supplies place or decent garden center?

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Dave Liquorice

You are supposed to *dilute* the stuff not apply it neat!

Or put another way. How long is the drive?

You can level a fair area of grassland with 5L at standard dilution and a somewhat larger area if you dilute slightly beyond their recommended dose rate. Buttercup ivy and holly will survive it.

Roundup is the most expensive way of buying it and any generic clone with the highest percentage of active ingredient will be almost as good.

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Martin Brown

4L/ha would be a stiff agricultural dose.
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Tim Lamb

/> I've been using Roundup on the drive and garden but it's pretty

You are supposed to *dilute* the stuff not apply it neat! /q

??

At that price its the ready to use stuff.

Jim K

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JimK

Look on the bottle and find the strength. It will be given in grams of glyphosate equivalent per litre. I buy the strongest I can find in ordinary stores, which has 360 gm/litre and costs around £40 for a litre bottle. That usually lasts a number of years. You dilute it down with 20cc or so to a litre and a bit of water. That will kill most things.

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Tim Streater

/ I buy the strongest I can find in ordinary stores, which has 360 gm/litre and costs around £40 for a litre bottle/q

Way way over the top! 5litres costs less than that....

Jim K

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JimK

It's supplied already diluted...

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F

5 litres of what? My 1 litre dilutes down to 50 litres of ready-to-use.

I did say, quite deliberately "ordinary stores". I am quite sure that specialist users like farmers can buy the stuff stronger and in larger quantities, but it didn't sound like the OP was one of those.

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Tim Streater

Then you're paying £20 for 5 litres of ready-to-use. I pay £40 for 50 litres (by buying the concentrate).

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Tim Streater

Which is why I'm asking the question...

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F

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Andy Burns

And I already answered it. You can buy the 360gm/litre concentrate from B&Q. I expect more concentrated is available, but I wouldn't know where to get it.

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Tim Streater

Only a complete idiot buys the stuff prediluted.

Same for windscreen wash. The makers have hit upon a great scheme to sell vastly overpriced impure water at *huge* margins.

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Martin Brown

More fool you then - buying overpriced impure water. 500ml of domestic use concentrate and a wand sprayer can be had for about the same price.

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Martin Brown

Ebay like I already said....

Jim K

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JimK

CONCENTRATE what else?

Ebay! any fool can buy it if they care to look.

Jim K

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JimK

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