weeds, weeds, weeds,,,,,!!!!
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Topic: weeds, weeds, weeds,,,,,!!!!
Posted By: desertjoe
Subject: weeds, weeds, weeds,,,,,!!!!
Date Posted: 13 Mar 2020 at 9:31am
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We have been getting lots of rain days this year and glad of it but with them good rains,,,, come them dang WEEDS,,,,!!!! Gosh-a-mighty,,,them dang weeds are about to take over my back yard and me with the rider mower down waiting some new blades and one of the mandrels that spun a bearing. AND,,with a bum shoulder on the mend now,,I ain't been able to start either of the weed eaters ,,,,, A few weeks ago, there was a conversation on some members had a recipe for home made weed killers and I meant to write it down but,,,,,,,the younger I get,,,,the more i remember,,,,?? Anybody got a sure fire recipe cause I don't want to use round-up,,,,
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Posted By: mhankins
Date Posted: 13 Mar 2020 at 9:54am
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I think that was 1 gallon of white vinegar,2 cups of epson salt,and quarter cup of dawn dish soap. |
Posted By: jaybmiller
Date Posted: 13 Mar 2020 at 10:43am
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gallon jug of vinegar, 1 cup salt, 1/8th cup dishsoap. more or less.... if you warm up the vinegar, the salt disolves faster.. put on AFTER morning dew is burned off, say 10-11 Am, by 2-3 PM you should see them curling up ! ------------- 3 D-14s,A-C forklift, B-112 Kubota BX23S lil' TOOT( The Other Orange Tractor) Never burn your bridges, unless you can walk on water |
Posted By: ac fleet
Date Posted: 13 Mar 2020 at 12:06pm
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My weapon is round-up and 2-4-D mix! ---- I don't waste time on anything else!----SORRY!!! lol!! ------------- http://machinebuildersnetwork.com/ |
Posted By: steve(ill)
Date Posted: 13 Mar 2020 at 12:55pm
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Roundup will kill the GRASS also........... If your trying to kill WEEDS, you use 2-4-D. ------------- Like them all, but love the "B"s. |
Posted By: jaybmiller
Date Posted: 13 Mar 2020 at 12:58pm
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24d is illegal for homeowners to use here in Ontario ,now IF you're a golfcourse NO LIMIT..... I'd love a selective 'field bindweed' herbicide.... ------------- 3 D-14s,A-C forklift, B-112 Kubota BX23S lil' TOOT( The Other Orange Tractor) Never burn your bridges, unless you can walk on water |
Posted By: Ray54
Date Posted: 13 Mar 2020 at 2:15pm
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Jay is it just hard to find Weed be Gone,or for real the snowflakes up your way did away with it. It may be 2 years but told Wally World had it here in The Land Of Fruits And Nuts still, they just had a new name on it. Joe you be careful I just got government approved for the year to
 use the good stuff. And they keep hiring cute  little things that ant never hoed the whole row for weeds yet. With a straight face she asked me if had considered  other methods than spraying chemicals to control thistles on 300 acres. But in the end she told me coffee is more deadly than Roundup. That has been Monsanto's answer to how dangerous Roundup is for years. So just buy the consecrate of brand China stuff at TSC and get them weeds. It will be cheaper than 500 gallons of vinegar. (but who knows what toxic wast Chine sends back hide in there weed spray) |
Posted By: tadams(OH)
Date Posted: 13 Mar 2020 at 2:16pm
| With that salt nothing will grow this year |
Posted By: SteveM C/IL
Date Posted: 13 Mar 2020 at 8:48pm
| Takes more salt than you would think to sterilize ground. |
Posted By: steve(ill)
Date Posted: 13 Mar 2020 at 8:53pm
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In Illinois you can buy a gallon of generic roundup (glyophate) or 2-4-D for about $15. at any Farm Store... the good stuff, plenty strong.......... dont need a special permit or nothing....... Again, if you use ROUNDUP it is going to kill the grass and the weeds... EVERYTHING. ------------- Like them all, but love the "B"s. |
Posted By: fixer1958
Date Posted: 14 Mar 2020 at 6:36am
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Couple of years ago I had some ice melt and dissolved some in a five gallon bucket. Real PITA and took forever. Screened about 10 gallons into a small pull behind atv sprayer. Shot it under an electric fence I had pigs in, about 800 ft. Killed everything for that whole year. Tried it again and I think it's eco friendly crap and acted like I fertilized it. Haven't been able to find any that worked since.
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Posted By: jaybmiller
Date Posted: 14 Mar 2020 at 8:21am
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yeah... weedbegone...just checked.. $30 / litre, so $120 canucks for a gallon... I can import real 24d, store it ,just not legally use it.....hmmm, silly guv... one patch of city property turns 100% yellow with dandelions every year, along with the lawns next to it(slumlords with university kids renting..) ------------- 3 D-14s,A-C forklift, B-112 Kubota BX23S lil' TOOT( The Other Orange Tractor) Never burn your bridges, unless you can walk on water |
Posted By: steve(ill)
Date Posted: 14 Mar 2020 at 9:49am
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2-4-d does a good job on most weeds including dandelions.......... If your trying to kill clover (and dandelions) you need something with Dicamba in it... Look at the store and see if you find a weed killer with 2-3 % Dicamba in it... works good..... but normally comes with 5-10% 2-4-d also. ------------- Like them all, but love the "B"s. |
Posted By: truckerfarmer
Date Posted: 14 Mar 2020 at 10:45pm
Came across a post from one of my cousins with a recipe that was Epsom salt and water that you spray on tomatoes, peppers and roses that improved the growth. Magnesium in it improved growth. ------------- Looking at the past to see the future. '53 WD, '53 WD45, WD snap coupler field cultivator, #53 plow,'53 HD5B dozer Duct tape.... Can't fix stupidity. But will muffle the sound of it! |
fixer1958 wrote:Posted By: shameless dude
Date Posted: 15 Mar 2020 at 12:15am
| I've used Epsom salts and water for years on my maters...really gets that plant to produce. don't hafta plant as many plants anymore. |
Posted By: shameless dude
Date Posted: 15 Mar 2020 at 12:19am
| Joe...there's no pull rope ona hoe! |
Posted By: desertjoe
Date Posted: 15 Mar 2020 at 2:56am
I KNOW that Shameless,,,,but somebody keeps stealing my hoe's (not that one!) Chit,,Shameless,,,theys too friggin many of them new weeds and with all this rain we been agettin,,,they is growin faster than any weed I ever seen,,,,, That's the only'ist thing with so much rain,,,,them friggin weeds grows too darn fast,,,and I likes to walk slow these days,,,,,
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Posted By: chaskaduo
Date Posted: 15 Mar 2020 at 5:12am
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"them friggin weeds grows too darn fast,,,and I likes to walk slow these days" Amen  ------------- 1938 B, 79 Dynamark 11/36 6spd, 95 Weed-Eater 16hp, 2010 Bolens 14hp |
Posted By: desertjoe
Date Posted: 15 Mar 2020 at 11:41am
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Well,,it drizzlin rain again here,,, I can just hear them Farmers pattin their partners on the behind and turnin over for some more snooze time,,,,,,, Me,,I gots my sure fire weed killer concocktion all mixed and ready for the sun to burn the dew off so's I can got to town and do some serious sprayin of them weeds,,,meanwhile I guess I'll stay in and ,,,,,,,,,,gulp,,,pay bills,,,,,
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Posted By: desertjoe
Date Posted: 15 Mar 2020 at 11:07pm
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Well,,we got a break in the wet weather so I run out and sprayed the weeds I cannot get to with the mower,,, I doused em pretty good,,,but dang if some of em looked like they like'ed thet Killer Solution,,,WTF,,?? How long does it take for them to start wilting and dying,,??
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Posted By: jaybmiller
Date Posted: 16 Mar 2020 at 6:23am
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Ok weeds MUST be DRY, not even lightly damp, BEFORE spraying at least an hour or 2..... on a hot, summer day I put the mix on around 11AM and by 3-4 that day, they're shivelling up. We still got some 'purdy' up here, NO worms ( robins are pissed...) so most ground is still froze cold. Rhubarb is just poking up..special spot, south facing,great drainage,slope ------------- 3 D-14s,A-C forklift, B-112 Kubota BX23S lil' TOOT( The Other Orange Tractor) Never burn your bridges, unless you can walk on water |
Posted By: chaskaduo
Date Posted: 16 Mar 2020 at 8:58am
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This site says a few days to kill the plants. But as Jay says, they may show signs of shriveling in 3-4 hours. Now this all being said, you probably have the toughest orneriest mutant weeds on the planet.  ------------- 1938 B, 79 Dynamark 11/36 6spd, 95 Weed-Eater 16hp, 2010 Bolens 14hp |
Posted By: desertjoe
Date Posted: 16 Mar 2020 at 10:31am
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Chit,,,ordinarily I would be jumpin for joy as it rained some MORE last nite and still drizzling now,,,,,,
 but i walk out in back yard and them weeds is just loving this rain,,!! Prolly just washed all my carefully applied weed killer of them leaves,,,,,,,,,BUT,,,they's hope for some sunshine today,,,,I'ma mix TWO cups of table salt and,,,and,,,use ole Shameless's favorite,,,,, Apple Cider Vinegar,,,!! I bet that will do the trick,,, |
Posted By: ac fleet
Date Posted: 16 Mar 2020 at 11:19am
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With 2-4-D they are flopped in less than a half hour! ---gotta be above 60 degrees at night for any killer to work. --- also dry when put on. some is rainfast in half hour,--some is never rainfast, so kinda iffy as to how long it would take. I always spray the yard with 2-4D every year after it warms up and weeds growing good and several inches tall. works every time. ------------- http://machinebuildersnetwork.com/ |
Posted By: chaskaduo
Date Posted: 16 Mar 2020 at 11:45am
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Joe get some dish soap in it to help wet the plant. ------------- 1938 B, 79 Dynamark 11/36 6spd, 95 Weed-Eater 16hp, 2010 Bolens 14hp |
Posted By: Ray54
Date Posted: 16 Mar 2020 at 2:53pm
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I will let you in on secret guaranteed to kill anything including you if your not careful. The old gone bad gas in all the cars and trucks sitting out back. Getting second gas tank on a pickup with 2 going after the one had quit because of switch trouble. Had some real stinky stuff,and didn't want a toxic waste dump so put it in a hand sprayer to spread it around. In 5 minutes you see them weeds just turn brown,but it was in hot summer time, so may take 20 or 30 when colder. But I bet it is far more toxic than any weed killer you can buy,so just cause it be cheap you look out. |