07-11-2013, 10:25 PM
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Originally posted by peteadams
Thanks for the tip about Milestone. I'm going to look into it. The typical tank mix we use for the garden paths and beds is glyphosate and oxyflurofen under the Goal tradename. It has several values for us. First of all it has both pre and post emergence capability. Second, it's a foliar contact herbicide, not a systemic so we feel more confident spraying weeds closer to the valuable plants. It is very effective on broadleaf weeds and keeps their seedlings down for at least a couple of months. Interestingly, Goal is also labeled for many commercial crops in Hawai'i including coffee, cacao, citrus (nonbearing), papaya, guava(!) and taro (dryland), possibly because it is a non-systemic.
Do you have any napalm?
We have a constant influx of weed seed from the many neglected or abandoned properties around here. Since the area had many relatively large sugar cane fields, there are many open fields where the fastest growing and most tenacious broadleaf weeds flourish. We also have a lot of inherited california grass and honohono "grass" that the glyphosate/Goal mix effectively kills. Remedy also works very well on honohono and maile pilau (the "vine" or Paederia scandens).