I declared war on Johnson grass

[EddieWalker]

Rumor that I heard is that the guy was named Johnson and he brought it back from Turkey, where it comes from. He thought it would be a great idea to have a super fast growing, super large grass, to feed livestock. Sadly, it spreads and takes over so quickly that it's highly invasive and impossible to keep under control. I've been spraying each "bunch" of it with round up with poor results. It just takes so much time to keep up on it.

I hope this works because I'll probably copy it!!!!

 

[Granthol]

I’ll definitely let you all know. My speed was well under 5 mph, probably closer to 2 mph. I wanted it on pretty good. I could see the dampness on the leaves as I drove, not saturated, but at the concentration I used, it didn’t need to be soaked.

 

[Granthol]

Honestly if I get 80% of it the first time I’ll be happy.

 

[Granthol]

Btw, the tall stuff is Johnson grass. The orchard grass in front of it is about 4 feet tall.

 

[YLee Kioti]

Rumor that I heard is that the guy was named Johnson and he brought it back from Turkey, where it comes from. He thought it would be a great idea to have a super fast growing, super large grass, to feed livestock. Sadly, it spreads and takes over so quickly that it's highly invasive and impossible to keep under control. I've been spraying each "bunch" of it with round up with poor results. It just takes so much time to keep up on it.

I hope this works because I'll probably copy it!!!!

I use Eraser with a tad of Remedy to get those huisache sprig regrowths.
The johnson grass appears to literally melt after about four days.

 

[kenmac]

I will trade your johnson grass for my foxtail. Talk about a bad grass. It's difficult to kill because it comes up in my other grass. So to spray it with round up, you kill all other stuff as well

 

[kenmac]

I have been in contact with the local US dept of AG people,and they tell me this foxtail is very bad problem around the state.
They say the issue they are having is trying to come up with a chemical that's able to kill a grass within a grass without killing surrounding grasses
It also has to be a chemical that you still graze livestock and harvest hay for livestock

 

[HillStreet]

If you have not seen the herbicide Tenacity yet.... look it up on YouTube ...kills crabgrass post and pre emergent..without killing new grass or seed... stuff is magic...

I meant to say, in my last post, that I have read about Tenasity and checked it out. I have hundreds of blueberry bushes and liquids would harm the plants.

 

[Tomtint]

I meant to say, in my last post, that I have read about Tenasity and checked it out. I have hundreds of blueberry bushes and liquids would harm the plants.

I believe it comes in a granular now as well.

 

[buckeyefarmer]

Ive got johnson grass taking over parts of my field.

The state sprays it along the road every year, it keeps coming back.