Roundup/Glyphosphate

The shelf held only the one glyphosate product...

Where was this then?

I'm sure the details are of absolutely no use to you but it was the local 'ordinary store'.

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Where was this then? /q

Come to think of it where are you paying £40 a litre for 360g/litre stuff ?

Waitrose perchance

Jim K

B&Q. As I said.

Read the thread more carefully - he was paying £22 for the 10g/L stuff! There is one born every minute...

I find a 500ml bottle will last me a couple of seasons at home unless I have to do battle with reclaiming a large area of wilderness.

As I also said, my first bottle of 360gm/litre lasted me 10 years. The second will be perhaps 5 years, as we have a bigger garden now. Not much point in buying something that might last me 40 years.

You tell him....

Jim K

Er nope, you said "you can buy..." not, "I buy....".

Only one I can find on diy.com is

Is that it ?

Jim K

Thass the stuff. And I see it sold in any number of garden centres too.

Still waiting for details of the 5 lt bottles of presumably more than

That does sound rather odd, it's getting hard to buy weedkiller that

Not > 360 (wikipedia has that as the most common formulation for agricultural use. I think the strongest, 680, might be solid), but

gave me several at under 40 quid.

/Not > 360 (wikipedia has that as the most common formulation for agricultural use. I think the strongest, 680, might be solid), but

gave me several at under 40 quid. /q

Isn't the interweb a wunnerful ting even at it's most basic?.... ....in the right hands obviously.....:-)

Jim K

A useful reference for the OP, then. As I said, that much would last me at least 25 years. Further, when I originally talked about getting 1lt of 360gm/lt, I also mentioned something to the effect that those with a larger scale requirement (such as farmers) could probably get it stronger and/or in larger quantities.

/A useful reference for the OP, then. As I said, that much would last me at least 25 years. Further, when I originally talked about getting 1lt of 360gm/lt, I also mentioned something to the effect that those with a larger scale requirement (such as farmers) could probably get it stronger and/or in larger quantities. /q

So you've bought 2? overpriced 1 litre bottles of Glyphosate from B@Q?.. ever? That's some window box you've got there:-)

I've nearly finished my 2nd 5 litre (yes conc, before you ask) in 11 years. Brambles, general weedkilling around paved areas, parking spots that's all that springs to mind.

If you had used more on the knotweed maybe it would have given up quicker! How many years did that take? 7?

Jim K

Still not learnt how to quote, I see.

You'll have to explain the rationale behind buying more than I need.

You spraying every week or something? You do know that stuff takes a couple of weeks to die, don't you? And you are diluting it, I take it?

Here, there are two areas that get sprayed in March, using about 100cc of the conc. Not generally necessary to revisit those. Then there's the driveway. That gets sprayed a few times a year.

You obviously know nothing about knotweed and how it regenerates.

Still not learnt how to quote, I see.

You'll have to explain the rationale behind buying more than I need.

You spraying every week or something? You do know that stuff takes a couple of weeks to die, don't you? And you are diluting it, I take it?

Here, there are two areas that get sprayed in March, using about 100cc of the conc. Not generally necessary to revisit those. Then there's the driveway. That gets sprayed a few times a year.

You obviously know nothing about knotweed and how it regenerates/q

Your assumptions are almost as amusing as your ineptitude

Jim K

I think it becomes too viscous and difficult to mix if you go much above the agricultural formulation - not due to the active ingredient so much as the wetting agent surfactants that accompany it.

In message , Martin Brown writes

In the run-up to *roundup* coming off patent, Monsanto tried various strategies to head off competition from generic producers. Different formulations with different names and claimed benefits.

For use around the home, roundup 360 is fine providing attention is paid to the instructions. Concentration, spray quality, temperature, growing conditions, target growth stage, etc. all have significant impacts on the results.

I purchase through a farmers buying group so have no experience of sourceing for home use. Try a local agricultural merchant.