Spraying Roundup

[SCDolphin]

Is round up toxic to use to clear a garden of grass before planting eatable crops like corn, melons & tomatoes. I did not think it was but one of the neighbors was even concerned it would affect the ground water.

Last question with a 50% strenght anyone know the minimal dilution that will kill weeds and grass.


Thanks

 

[Farmwithjunk]

Glyphosate is soil inactive. Once it hits dirt, it has no effect, no carry-over, and is neutralized. It's only effect is on LIVING plants. It won't kill grass if it's dormant. I've used it for years in growing, established gardens to kill weeds. I use a 2 liter soft drink bottle with the bottom cut out, the the spayer wand stuck down through the neck of the bottle. That bottle covers the weed I'm trying to kill and prevents drift from getting on my garden crops.

 

[WarrenF]

Is round up toxic to use to clear a garden of grass before planting eatable crops like corn, melons & tomatoes. I did not think it was but one of the neighbors was even concerned it would affect the ground water.

Last question with a 50% strenght anyone know the minimal dilution that will kill weeds and grass.


Thanks

Buying Roundup in the regular strength, the mixing rate is usually 1 or 2 ounces per gallon of water. If you will mix 2-4-D with the roundup in its regular recommended rate you will find you get a better kill rate. Just a tip that is commonly used in our neck of the woods.

 

[Redbug]

FarmWithJunk is right. Here's some neat additional information about glyphosate:

North Dakota State University

 

[westbrooklawn]

Please don't read my reply as a "wise a@@" answer, but what you should do is read the label on your roundup. It will give you answers to both of your questions. If you don't have the label for some reason, then go to the manufacturer's website Monsanto ~ Home .

The only safe and right way to apply herbicides is by reading the product label and educating yourself to the correct way to apply it.

 

[Farmwithjunk]

Please don't read my reply as a "wise a@@" answer, but what you should do is read the label on your roundup. It will give you answers to both of your questions. If you don't have the label for some reason, then go to the manufacturer's website Monsanto ~ Home .

The only safe and right way to apply herbicides is by reading the product label and educating yourself to the correct way to apply it.

Not "wisea@@ information" at all. In fact, complying with labeled information is the only "legal way" to apply ANY pesticide, according to the EPA.

 

[rhomium]

Farmwithjunk is right, Roundup is inactive once it hits dirt. Here on the farm we use 3-4 ounces per gallon in backpack sprayers. A little ammonium sulfate mixed in helps as well. We also only wait a day for it to translocate in the weed, then start cultivating fields.

 

[Jimmyp5]

Hey, mixing 2-4-D is a little diffrent, does not 2-4-D unlike Round Up have a 1/2 life of about 30 days or so... don't recall the specifics, but I know we do not use it anywhere it might come in contact with or even blow on the wind near vines... and I think it does have a "do not harvest" date on many fruits etc...

Bottom line read the labels... it is important!!

 

[RalphVa]

I've used glyphosate like Farmswithjunk, with a 2 little plastic bottle cut in half over the end of the spray head. I use this to zap weeds in the veggie garden when hoeing could be potentially more dangerous to the plants. I also use it around the edges, underneath the electric fence.

Glyphosate gets tied up (chemically) by clay particles in the soil. We generally tell people to wait about 10 days before applying seed to soil sprayed by it. In spraying it, you want to just barely wet surfaces of green plants you want to zap. Don't overdo it.

I once used one of those "weed and feed" fertilizers. It killed many things around the edges of the yard that I didn't want killed. It has 2-4D or similar broadleaf weed killer as the "weeder". Never used that stuff again.

Ralph

 

[WarrenF]

Hey, mixing 2-4-D is a little diffrent, does not 2-4-D unlike Round Up have a 1/2 life of about 30 days or so... don't recall the specifics, but I know we do not use it anywhere it might come in contact with or even blow on the wind near vines... and I think it does have a "do not harvest" date on many fruits etc...

Bottom line read the labels... it is important!!

Yes you don't want to even show the 2-4-D can to grape vines. They are very sensitive. I am not recommending spraying it around edible crops. I thought the original question was to clean a plot of ground for a garden area. NO EDIBLE crops in the ground or around the area. If you spray simply Round Up...in its original configuration....depending on the temperature and growing condition it will take seven plus days to start the kill. If you mix it with the 2-4-D it will begin its kill in about seven days and then the 2-4-D makes the plant grow faster and accept the Round-up thereby giving you a better kill.

I might add that this is pretty standard practice in my country. In this area they grow field corn twelve to sixteen feet high, and the last time they planted potatoes on my property they went 575 sacks to the acre. Nationally the average is or was about 275 to 300 sacks to the acre. Grain goes about 165 to 200 bushels to the acre. I don't believe with yields like that farmers would be using things that would make the plant in-edible or goof up the ground.