Weeds

[farmer2009]

Try a 2, 4-D or dicamba. As roundup can struggle with small seeded broadleafs.

 

[Walkin Horse]

I have some Gordon's Trimec 2-4-d. I have always used roundup because it's safe to use around the horses. I not sure that 2-4-d is something I can spray in the paddocks without taking the horses out for a awhile.

 

[farmer2009]

The Gordon's you mention only has a lawn label. But after checking other products with Ag labels there is no mention of a grazing restriction. Only a haying restriction of 7 days. We spray with cattle in the feild all the time with no problems.

 

[OldMcDonald]

I find glyphosate (Roundup etc) kills it very easily. I still get the odd seed germinating, but very few, and had quite a lot when we moved here in 2003. When I was in NSW, Australia in the 1980s my neighbours called it Castor Oil Plant. It is not of course, but they gave it the same name.

 

[Pete Judd]

In areas, that I have weeds, and black berrys, I mix both glyposate and 2-4-d in the sprayer, and every thing is dead along the path of the spray. Real quick.

 

[dragoneggs]

Also known as Thornapple or Moonflower. I have 3 of them in my yard; they produce some pretty blooms early in the morning. The seeds are toxic, and as I recall, the leaves and stems may be also. They come back every year; I just cut them down in the fall. We consider them to be an interesting ornamental.

Toxic is the best medicine... it kills what it treats :doctor:

 

[Walkin Horse]

I'm going to try the roundup and 24d mix today. I will let you know how it works for me.

 

[smstonypoint]

More on the properties of jimson weed.

In 1676, British soldiers were sent to stop the Rebellion of Bacon. Jamestown weed (Jimsonweed) was boiled for inclusion in a salad, which the soldiers readily ate. The hallucinogenic properties of jimsonweed took affect.

As told by Robert Beverly in The History and Present State of Virginia (1705): The soldiers presented "a very pleasant comedy, for they turned natural fools upon it for several days: one would blow up a feather in the air; another would dart straws at it with much fury; and another, stark naked, was sitting up in a corner like a monkey, grinning and making mows at them; a fourth would fondly kiss and paw his companions, and sneer in their faces with a countenance more antic than any in a Dutch droll.

"In this frantic condition they were confined, lest they should, in their folly, destroy themselves - though it was observed that all their actions were full of innocence and good nature. Indeed they were not very cleanly; for they would have wallowed in their own excrements, if they had not been prevented. A thousand such simple tricks they played, and after 11 days returned themselves again, not remembering anything that had passed."

Plants Poisonous to Livestock - Cornell University Department of Animal Science

Steve

 

[Walkin Horse]

I wonder if I smoked it if would help my hemroids. So far not knowing what it was I guess I have been lucky that the horse haven't tried it.

 

[smstonypoint]

I wonder if I smoked it if would help my hemroids.

No. But I have read that using the leaves as toilet paper will do the trick. Please try this and report back.

Steve