PsyCLown Posted November 5, 2021 Share Posted November 5, 2021 Sooo!  Looking for a bit of advice on herbicides, something I have never really taken much of a look into.  Want to get the garden in the new place sorted, done a bit already and cleaned up but with all the rain we have been having there have been a few weeds (not the type we like here ) popping up on the soil - so I want to get of them before I add a layer of landscapers mix and then lay down some grass.  Now I am lazy and during the day it gets very hot, so I have removed the larger weeds by hand and am just left with the smaller ground cover type of weeds. So someone suggested I look at spraying them with a herbicide, now I know Roundup lasts long so that is out of the question as I do not want to kill the grass I will be planting.  Apparently there is a spray which just burns the plants and does not stay on the soil and this will allow me to spray and kill the weeds and then plant grass on top afterwards.   Any idea which herbicide(s) I could use to achieve this? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Khakibos Posted November 5, 2021 Share Posted November 5, 2021 Maybe check out this as an alternative https://biogrow.co.za/products/herbicidal-soap/ 1 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PsyCLown Posted November 5, 2021 Author Share Posted November 5, 2021 That Finalsan sounds good to me, I think I will get some and give it a go. This site: https://winproonline.com/products/finalsan® suggest to wait at least 5 days before planting after spraying.  That works for me!  Not sure I trust round up all that much. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chris Jay Posted November 15, 2021 Share Posted November 15, 2021 Prefer having weeds in my garden than using roundup. Whats interesting is we have learnt what weeds are edible and what are not e.g lambs quarter. Also lots of the weeds are eaten by our animals, used in compost teas or just added into the compost pile. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PsyCLown Posted November 15, 2021 Author Share Posted November 15, 2021 1 hour ago, Chris Jay said: Prefer having weeds in my garden than using roundup. Whats interesting is we have learnt what weeds are edible and what are not e.g lambs quarter. Also lots of the weeds are eaten by our animals, used in compost teas or just added into the compost pile. Yea, here in the city the only animals are the cats in the complex or the birds. lol  I too an not a fan of Roundup. I see there are other "lawn herbicides" though. May resort to that once the lawn is in and if I still end up with weeds then.  I tried the Finalsan, the shit goes quickly. 200ml per L So 2.5L from a 500ml bottle, could not even do the entire 70sqm of or so of the garden. Works okish, was hoping for something more dramatic... Like the plants dieing and burning and being all shriveled up. I think it would work well for only a few weeds or weeds on a pavement. I ended up pulling a lot out with the use of a spade. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Batista Posted November 15, 2021 Share Posted November 15, 2021 Glyphogan will do the jobSent from my SM-A715F using Tapatalk 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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