Weed Killer

LeeUK · 31 May 2018 at 10:53

What is everyone using these days? What is the best type/brand?

I bought a big 5L bottle of Roundup with the pump sprayer on. I got a huge patch of misc weeds in my back yard along with little weeds growing up at the edges of the walls and around about places etc. I sprayed the whole lot on Monday night and again 48hrs later last night.

Only the little odd weeds around about are dying off. The huge patch full of docks, prickly nettles and other weird stuff doesn't show any signs of dying off. It's never rained between the 2 applications either.

LeeUK · 31 May 2018 at 11:16

There is nothing there I want to keep.

LeeUK · 31 May 2018 at 16:09

Thanks I'll get some of that Elixir as not near a Tesco. I'll reuse the Roundup pump spray bottle unless it is sealed for single use.

LeeUK · 20 Dec 2020 at 09:06

I since used the stuff in the white bottle off Amazon and used it again this summer to clear my front garden of willow herb and it worked a treat. Only thing I'm having a problem with is the sycamore tree saplings, while the stuff kills all the leaves and they appear dead for a few weeks then all of a sudden they spring back into life.

Really need to get someone in to do something with the stumps.

LeeUK · 27 Dec 2020 at 13:43

I was going wild spraying the Glyphosate all over my garden multiple times in the summer and completely cleared it of all the weeds. I don't think anything will grow now unless a new seed gets blown in. It's just those tree sapling stumps I need to remove and some of them are quite big as they have been there years after being cut down a few times.

Once we get out of Winter maybe March/April at the earliest I want to completely cover my garden borders in bark chippings, already got the matting stuff to go down. Middle of my garden is like a fancy stonework patio where a lawn once was and all I've got left in my garden is a few big shrubs which I'm leaving in but other than that it's going to be very low maintenance.