Mares Tails

[foghornleghorn]

I bought some Kurtail (after taking out a second mortgage) - yes it kills the stuff it contacts, but new stuff just keeps on coming through, so a few months on and it's the same as before.

I have about a quarter of an acre of wall-to-wall Mares-Tail, and the stuff keeps creeping towards other, clean areas.

What I'm going to try next year is to mark out a section, strim it down to (say) an inch from the ground - then immediately spray that section with Roundup, and hopefully get spray into those cut stalks before they self-heal. Then strim another section, spray, and so on ...

It's the only way I can figure of getting past the waxy coating.
LJ

All you need is diesel or something similar mixed in with the roundup and the waxy coat won't be a problem.

 

[Little John]

All you need is diesel or something similar mixed in with the roundup and the waxy coat won't be a problem.

A solution of Roundup is 99.9% Water. Diesel is Oil. Oil and Water don't mix.
LJ

 

[Little John]

If you're going to use roundup it works better on full foliage when the plant is young and developing

The foliage of Mares Tail is waxy - that's the bl##dy problem with the stuff when spraying. I was planning to dose the cut hollow stems, when hopefully (...) the glyphosate will be carried down via the phloem - before any healing takes place.

Ammonium Sulphamate is a known Mares-Tail killer - but like Kurtail, it costs and arm and a leg.
LJ

BINGO - I just found a place: https://mistralni.co.uk/products/ammonium-sulphamate
5kg for £25 delivered .... that's for me, come the new year.

 

[user 6228]

to kill these you need a big drum of Persistance mixed 50/ 50 with Patience. Get them from your Elbow Grease stockist

 

[ferret]

glyphosate

glyphosate is the best raw content mix it 10-2 -1 with water.water is the reactor.sprayed twice 4 weeks apart.had some of a farmer friend and killed the lot in my garden with nothing coming back through.ps if you spray anything else it will kill that also.

 

[Hivemaker.]

ps if you spray anything else it will kill that also.

Does that include cats?

 

[Millet]

Does that include cats?

I find it effective to spray the tip of a pellet/bullet with the stuff for feral things, and it works instantly..