Lawn

Cylinder or rotary mower?

If you think Round Up is safe

No one said roundup is safe. Its actually glyphosate. Thats the chemical compound. Roundup is monsanto’s trade name for it. Zero is another one. I think thats yates one.
Glyphosate isnt the devil of weed killers. The companys that promote it are. Its also nowhere near the worst of the chemicals used in hort and ag and consumed by us.
Glyphosate is banned for domestic use in holland. Not banned for comercial use though because monsanto control all of the controlled environment production of food product in that part of europe.

Your consuming food products that are treated with much more dangerouse compounds than glyphosate just by shopping at coles aldi and woolies.

Being scared of using glyphosate safely to kill weeds in your garden makes me think your ignorant and naive.

tl;dw?

Monsanto produce genetically modified food crops that are immune to glyphosate.

Think about that for a while.

Your consuming food products that are treated with much more dangerouse compounds than glyphosate just by shopping at coles aldi and woolies.

Being scared of using glyphosate safely to kill weeds in your garden makes me think your ignorant and naive.

I’m not scared of using glyphosate, however it’s worth taking caution when using any chemicals, especially around the home. From what I’ve read glyphosate isn’t as dangerous as the other chemicals in Round Up, which I’m assuming is the chemicals that allow it to stick to it travel through the plant.

In my experience it was actually more effective at pulling the weeds out by hand. The glyphosate tended to kill the turf around the weed, despite using the product as recommended.

I just found it funny that one of their lobbyist was saying it’s safe to drink, and then wouldn’t drink when offered up a nice cold glass of the good stuff.

Lovely place in the spring and autumn. Too many blow-ins over summer. The Hotel there does ok meals, but you can get a much better feed if you go 20min further to Wye River.
I live in lawn {Lorne} you can't get into Wye river so you will have to use one of our local eateries Pizza Pizza . Bottle of Milk .Ipsos, Lorne Pier Sea Food Restaurant . At the moment we can only get out by going in land to the Princes highway.

Round up is pretty weak. Unless you combine it with blackberry spray. Nasty stuff.

Add Urea to the glyphosate mix and that weed will be no match.

Don’t over do it unless you want crop circles. Especially with some types of seed.

Getting a Gardener in to do a massive clean up of garden beds, trim the bushes and trees and weed/feed grass.

He came over and was shocked to see such sick walter Buffallo. Going to contact the company to see what weed/feed fertiliser is good as the standard Buffallo stuff at Bunnings isnt ideal supposedly.

I’ve officially become either:

  • laziest person ever
    Or
  • A snob

Gardener did an amazing job trimming the shrubs and hedges and fertilising the lawn since the soil test came back ok. Just thinks it was not installed properly with gaps which has caused the weeds to fight through the buffalo.

For $55 a month the bloke is going to come and mow and whipper snip the lawn.

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The key to a good lawn is to just mow it regularly and never too short. Never mow on the three lowest settings.

Go too low and you get weeds. Do the above and the grass crowds out the weeds. Hardly ever need to weed. Chemicals are a waste of.time. They only create stronger weeds.

Water, fertiliser/manure on the bald bits and encourage runners. Patience.

Spent my afternoon removing onion weed by hand. Opinions are divided whether this does any good, but there isn’t a huge amount of it so far and the recommended surefire cures are amazingly drastic (cover the entire area with opaque black plastic for a couple of weeks until everything underneath is dead, then wait a year for stuff to grow again on your newly-sterile and lifeless soil)

Annoying thing is I’m on a remnant vegetation area (council rebates ~60% of my rates for keeping it in good nick), and most of my property is native scrub and native grasses/groundcovers. But the Salvos own the property over the back fence and the only care they take of it is running a mower over it once a year when the bushfire prep monitoring happens. Their block is lousy with pittosporum, onionweed and blackberry, and I’m continually trying to stop it all spreading into my place. And recently i’ve got new neighbours on both sides and they look to be doing the same thing. Why the HELL you buy a bush block in a significant conservation zone and then don’t bother doing any damn conservation (or even setting foot on the back 3/4 of your property at all) is beyond me.

/vent>

Had a similar issue, … all of the 1st 3 suggestions will work, … but the bolded one was thee fastest & most complete.

Organic solutions for weed control

There are many organic options for turning weeds into humus.

Salt n Vinegar: Add a cup of common salt to a litre of vinegar. After it’s dissolved, brush it directly onto weeds. Remember, it’s not a selective weed killer. It’ll kill anything it touches so be very careful how you use it.
Boiling water: Deep-rooted weeds can be hard to successfully pull out of paved areas, so they can simply be burned to death with boiling water.
Vegetable oil: Bulbous weeds (eg Onion Weed, Oxalis) can be killed by injecting vegetable oil very carefully into the soil around the bulbs so they suffocate, die and rot into the soil.
Iron sulphate: A plant nutrient that burns broad-leafed plants, it can be watered on at the rate of 2 dessert spoons to one litre of water. One litre covers two square metres of turf. This treatment will work on most broad-leaf weeds and moss in lawns - but will leave dead patches.
Drowning: Plants that can’t be safely composted (eg Oxalis, Kikuyu and Couch Grass) can be drowned in a bucket of water. This kills the plant and seeds and can be made into a garden tonic.
Solarisation: Put weeds - including bulbs, seeds and roots - into a plastic garbage bag and leave somewhere hot and sunny for a month or two so the contents cook to death. The residue can be composted.
Sheet solarisation: Cover a larger area of weeds with clear plastic and pin down the edges. Leave for at least eight weeks to ‘cook’ the plants to death, leaving them to add their biomass to the soil.
Sheet or sandwich mulching AKA sheet composting: Water the soil, then lay down at least six sheets of newspaper over the area to be cleared. Lay 10cm of organic mulch over the top, then add a sprinkle of blood and bone to activate the mulch’s breakdown.Water in. Don’t dig for at least three to six months and you’ll be left with a weed-free space that’s ready to plant.

Father in law came over and mowed half my lawn on the low setting. Trying to help, but it looks like it’ll need replacing.

Yeah, I’d love to be able to do more organic weed control, but most organic herbicides are as indiscriminate as hell and I’m trying to stop infiltration of weeds into a native area, not clear a weed-infested area from scratch. Plus I’ve got a couple of very steep and rocky acres, and any method which is all ‘very carefully brush on individual leaves’ is just not going to scale up for me. I tend to rely on glyco for the really bad bits (if I didn’t, i’d be neck-deep in ehrharta by now…), weeding around the edges, and putting loads of natives in to try to crowd the weeds out in the long term.

The onion weed is a new problem though. Was thinking of getting a gas burner to try to make a dent in the briza this year, but the sudden onionweed infestation changed my priorities.

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The guy I have specialises in sir Walter Buffallo. I just said to him “You worry bout the lawn. Wife and I trust you to get it right.”

He fertilised tonight so Im watering it in (sprinkler for 10-20 min before moving to another spot and repeat )

Will come in 2 weeks again to remove treat it for weeds