![]() ![]() I understand that it is only absorbed through foliage and not through roots. I have seen it sprayed in brushy areas and the area quickly became lawn. I have been told that Crossbow is what the energy companies use under power line to keep only grass growing there. It is absorbed through the soil and will remain in the soil for a long time after use.Ĭrossbow is great for killing woody plants. ![]() If you use it in a lot that drains to a field, it will kill everything where the water drains including 200 year old trees. It is used for open areas with no chance for drainage on to an area that you want plants. It is a total vegetation and soil killer. It is only my personal understanding of things as I have heard them around the water tank. I have an area that is covered in Japanese Knotweed at my house that I am going to try this on.Ĭlick to expand.I am not licensed to use herbicides and nothing following should be considered advice. Crossbow, Aqua - Kleen, Weed - B - Gone Dacthal, DAC 893, Dachthalor p. When a summer shower does come later, the salt goes into the soil, attacks the grass roots, and sterilizes the ground. When you cut the blackberries, you removed 98 of the absorptive surface. It is best to do spraying on a dry week in late July, for rain tends to wash off the dried saline and negate the killing process. Many herbicides need lots of sprayed foliage to absorb the herbicide and move it systemically throughout the plant and especially down to the roots. In one to two days, certain parts of the grass turn dark purple-black in color. You can see the crystals of it on the blades of grass during a sunny day. As a result, the salt sticks to the plant during drying. The detergent removes the shiny protective waxy layer of the vegetation and forces it to quickly absorb the toxic solution. This $0.32/gallon solution is applied via a hand-pump sprayer. CASH AND CARRY of Seattle sells a 50 pound bag of salt at $5.90, and COSTCO sells a 1.3 gallon container of ECO LIQUID LAUNDRY DETERGENT at $13.89. DO NOT USE POWDER DETERGENT, it clogs up the sprayer. For killing grass and sterilizing the soil as well, I mix a quarter cup of liquid laundry detergent and 2.0 pounds of salt in a gallon of water. The most inexpensive herbicide is to mix a "home made solution" from cheap household products. ![]() then i could pump the waste TSP solution directly into that sink, and into the san sewer system.I found this homemade weed killer recipe attached to a review of quikpro on amazon:Ģ. Some time in the future i would like to install a utility sink. While both herbicides require time to work through the plant’s system to kill it completely, Crossbow can be a faster-acting alternative to Roundup. i have a valve at the bottom of this tank, and i open it up onto the lawn, while adding more water to it with a hose. Roundup requires 714 days to kill plants and grasses down to the root. i use TSP, 4 cups into a 30gallon tank of water, to clean pool filter elements. monsanto blah blah blah, for algal blooms in the gulf. these same folks, who relish a clean driveway, will in an instant start foaming at the mouth, blaming this and that corporation. Thats like 20 pounds of raw phosphate washing directly down into storm water sewers and eventually into riverways. What i hate is when people will buy like 100bucks worth of tsp. Its not a perfect so solution, but its better than the storm sewers. the effluent from this treatment plant will contain far less phosphate. When it makes to to your sewage treatment plant, it will be digested by organisms in the aeration basin. While im not trying to discourage you from taking the stuff to a dump, it can indeed be disposed of much as washing machine water etc. ![]()
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