Vacant lot weed spraying

[Chas]

I'm looking for someone DEPENDABLE to spray Roundup on our lot in lower HPP. The lot was cleared several years ago. It was being sprayed once a month, but the person doing it is no longer in the business.

Thanks

[Mr nice guy]

Might post/search here: http://www.punaweb.org/Forum/forum.asp?FORUM_ID=13

[leilanidude]

You might want to mix Roundup with something like 2,4-D. Roundup only gets mostly grasses and 2,4-D will get the broadleaf stuff. The 2 chemicals work well together.

[Chas]

Good idea. I'll try that while I'm there.

The only thing is, I'm not there that often. Hence the need to find someone.

[SoCal_to_Hawaii]

Chas - is the lot cindered?

[Chas]

Yes. Unfortunately the previous owner ruined most of the lava and leveled it. It is mostly gravel/cinder with palm trees and other various desirable plants.

We had another lot before that was cleared and were amazed at how fast it gets out of hand if you don't keep after it.

[Malapuaao]

Maybe this is off topic, but what are you finding is best herbicide for sleeping grass?

aloha

[Chas]

Sorry. Can't answer that. Don't know what sleeping grass is. I believe the guy that used to spray our lot used Roundup. It did seem to keep all the weeds down, however I don't know whether or not there was sleeping grass on it.

[Lee M-S]

I think sleeping grass is another name for sensitive plant/sensitive grass. The nasty, thorny stuff that folds up when you touch it.

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[bananahead]

fwiw, RoundUp only kills the plant it touches... and is effective only on actively growing plants...... after spraying with Roundup, a new seedling can grow in the same soil the next day. RoundUp in not a pre emergence herbicide, it will not make your lot look like a 'moonscape' for a year, ...quite the opposite, as new weed will grow right back from seed starting the next day.... RoundUp is by far the least invasive and least toxic of all the herbicides, even alot of the so called 'organic' 'natural' ones as they are so inferior you need to use so much more to get results and thus end up contaminating the soil ie vinegar, salt, etc....

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glyphosate

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