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?
- posted
9 years ago
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?
Forget the ~£18.99, that was from a duff link. ~£22 seems to be more like the going rate!
EBay ?
33.50 istr for 5 litres concentratedJim K
Note this is undiluted. Dilute at about 1.5:100.
Bill
Agri supplies place or decent garden center?
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.
4L/ha would be a stiff agricultural dose.
/> 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
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.
/ 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
It's supplied already diluted...
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.
Then you're paying £20 for 5 litres of ready-to-use. I pay £40 for 50 litres (by buying the concentrate).
Which is why I'm asking the question...
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.
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.
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.
Ebay like I already said....
Jim K
CONCENTRATE what else?
Ebay! any fool can buy it if they care to look.
Jim K
HomeOwnersHub website is not affiliated with any of the manufacturers or service providers discussed here. All logos and trade names are the property of their respective owners.