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Thread ID: 135892	2013-12-23 23:13:00	How to kill the back "lawn"?	Greg (193)	PC World Chat

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1363483	2013-12-24 01:23:00	Roundup is useless. Salt is useless. It may work if you coat the entire section a foot deep and somehow manage to prevent run off when it rains but that's not practical. I have tried all this as I live next to Mr Jungle. I don't care what he does but it has a habit of encroaching on my place. He has: Privet Wandering Jew Jasmine Wooly Nightshade Ivy Ginger Agapanthus and so on..... Lawn Weedkiller is also useless. For the woody weeds Vigilant Gel is effective if you can first cut it then apply the gel. Needs repeat appplications. Tordon is good, Deliveron is also good. Deliveron I got off Trademe....Tordon was trickier. Be warned, it stays in the soil for quite a while. Not forever but around 6 months......so if replanting, then be prepared for deformed plants growing....they will grow, they will just be a bit sick for a while. Really, if you aren't going to maintain the section then pave it, because it will just come back, whatever you do.	pctek (84)
1363484	2013-12-24 02:04:00	I take it you are practicing for a firing squad? Hope you don't forget your lines.! I was thinking more of as an answer to Greg's lawn problem... ie: 5413	Agent_24 (57)
1363485	2013-12-24 02:08:00	I was thinking more of as an answer to Greg's lawn problem... ie: 5413 Ah, you had us fooled there for a minute.	Cicero (40)
1363486	2013-12-24 02:49:00	Roundup is useless. Salt is useless. It may work if you coat the entire section a foot deep and somehow manage to prevent run off when it rains but that's not practical. I have tried all this as I live next to Mr Jungle. I don't care what he does but it has a habit of encroaching on my place. He has: Privet Wandering Jew Jasmine Wooly Nightshade Ivy Ginger Agapanthus and so on..... Lawn Weedkiller is also useless. For the woody weeds Vigilant Gel is effective if you can first cut it then apply the gel. Needs repeat appplications. Tordon is good, Deliveron is also good. Deliveron I got off Trademe....Tordon was trickier. Be warned, it stays in the soil for quite a while. Not forever but around 6 months......so if replanting, then be prepared for deformed plants growing....they will grow, they will just be a bit sick for a while. Really, if you aren't going to maintain the section then pave it, because it will just come back, whatever you do.But what's the cheapest and quickest option? Definitly can't afford to pave the whole damn area.	Greg (193)
1363487	2013-12-24 02:59:00	Buy a mower like everybody else. It's not rocket science.	Richard (739)
1363488	2013-12-24 03:29:00	Buy a mower like everybody else. It's not rocket science.Errr... petrol? Mower maintenance, parts etc? An extra hour and half wasted time each week? It's not blinking brain surgery to understand. Crikey!	Greg (193)
1363489	2013-12-24 03:53:00	Buy yourself 20ltrs of Glyphosate from one of your local farm suppliers. It is a lot lot cheaper than roundup from garden/hardware shops and is effectively the same stuff. Spray the section and in about 10 -20 days you will have a dirt section. Respray around every three months. Short of concrete nothing will last forever. A 20ltr container works out a lot cheaper than buying smaller quantities and will last several years for the job you describe. You really need a 15ltr backpack sprayer to apply the stuff but you may be able to hire one from Hirepool or the like.	CliveM (6007)
1363490	2013-12-24 04:16:00	An hour and a half to mow half a normal size section? Maintenance? Parts? What do you do to your mowers? If you would sooner just have dirt and dust...well, I guess there is no accounting for taste. Mud in the winter, slime, sounds like a good plan to me.	Richard (739)
1363491	2013-12-24 05:28:00	Yes you can use roundup on a goat, but it doesn't do much. Gives their coats a great feel though.	R2x1 (4628)
1363492	2013-12-24 05:47:00	roundup but use a tank sprayer. ie a bike or vehicle sprayer. backpacks are only good for spot spraying. buy a 20lt cause you will need it. give you some idea i sprayed out an overgrown track. 500m and used 3x 90 litre quad bike tanks. you can also mix in a gorse spray as well and that will kill almost anything.	tweak'e (69)
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