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I have landscaping rocks which circle around the garden that we have with flowers/shrubs here in Milwaukee, WI. I put Round Up on the weeds and grass inside of the garden, but now the problem is that the Round Up is killing some of the lawn next to the landscaping rocks. What should I do now since the grass is turning a bit yellow outside all around the rocks which affected the lawn that is growing next to the rocks externally?
Round up is a great product but you gotta be kind of careful when using. It is basically a topical herbicide and affects only living tissue that it comes in direct contact with. There obviously was a bit of a wind when you sprayed the grass inside your garden, and the product drifted to the outside. I would pull the yellowing grass and re-seed the area where you want grass to grow. Once Round up hits the soil, it becomes inert after a day or two so you can plant in a few days and it should be ok. good luck. To avoid this in the future, use a piece of cardboard to block any product over spray.
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I have a ring of pond stones around a large rosebud tree. Probably 10-12 feet in diameter. I used that black "screen" looking stuff and made sure to have it thoroughly covered. I then laid a good layer of pond stone on top of it. Looks gorgeous, but each year, more & more grass breaks through that black stuff and sticks out through the rocks. Will Round Up kill the tree itself, or as long as I'm careful, will it be OK to take out the grass?
I've never seen Roundup devour a tree yet! You could spend forever pulling the grass up especially the running type which is almost impossible to remove by hand especially from around rocks, every viable root regrows the top again.
Having said that Roundup will kill your tree if you are not careful. Orchards use it all the time for maintenance. Here are some choices, for you:
If you just covered the area around the tree with weedmat and did not kill the grass before you started, you may be better to remove the pond stones, remove the weed mat spray carefully, leave the required 24 hours etc and re-weedmat and re-stone, then make sure you regularly poison the edge with round up so no more runners get into the area.
Your other alternative is to keep a maintenance poisoning on the edge areas, then using an ordinary paint brush use straight round-up and paint the grass leaves that are poking through the stone. This will take a while and a few goes but believe me I have removed couch grass like this that I had been pulling out for years beforehand.
Round-up is a systemic herbicide and if you paint the leaves it takes the poison to the roots and kills them to, completely killing the plant that is touched.
If you are worried about the tree be careful not to allow any spray drift to take round-up to the leaves or trunk. (spay on a still day, and very low to the ground). Anything you cover will not be effected - you can cover the trunk with Cardboard while you spray it to protect it. (this also works in garden beds where you only want to remove a small plant from amounst others) The trick is to keep Roundup off any plant you want to keep.
If you have an accident and touch something by mistake rinse the plant immediately. Roundup washes off, and doesn't kill through the soil only the leaves. (We've had some nasty incidents at our place and all plants have lived to tell the tale). Hope this helps.
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How do i remove a small tree that is growing through/under my fence. The root seems to be directly below the fence and parts are growing winding through both sides of the wire fence. How do I get below it to dig it out? Would it come out easier with dry dirt of if the ground is wet? These trees are about 4 feet tall with the base about as round as a soda can. I have concrete on one side so I can't dig there, but the tree is there. The other side has landscape rock and the ground is very hard. I have tried cutting it down at the base in past years, it just grows back. Help !
If you can get a vehicle close, wrap a rope around the tree. Loosen the dirt around the roots with a spade. Hook to bumper & pull it out.
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We have had the front foundation wall repalced, so the front gardens were rippe dout, and the smaller boxwoods have survived! So have the small lily plants and low junipers. The house is a small L-shaped ranch, and is very plain and linear. We have placed red stone and a walkway around the L-shape in a straight pattern that does curve around the sides and the L. We will build a rectangular porch in the L by the door, with a 45 degree angled step up at the end of the walkway that curves to meet it.
There are round plants, and one oblong, angular rock between the symmetrically-placed round plants and larger plants at the end of the walkway which provide a visual wall between the driveway and the side door area.
So, the big deal is, how to fill in the 2 to 3 foot spaces between the low round, plants? (Thinking of a big rock in front of the basement window casing, but very heavy and costly to do.)
Thinking fo using planters, but many are round. Can we use windowboxes on the ground, or is that silly?
What other objects might offset the roundness of the plants and bring some linear and angular feel to the front gardens, to blend the linear house in with it?
The thing is, the plants are all round,
hard to tell without pics. may i suggest conical plants such as dwarf alberta spruces, shifting a few of your round plants so they are not so repetitive, and perhaps adding some taller lilies in the back. Nay to window boxes on the ground. that's the best i can do without a pic.
Hello
I live in Southern Arizona and as you may know the common landscaping material is sand/dirt/rock.
However my yard has been neglected for far too long.. weeds have taken root.
there are no plants nearby that i need to save... I want to destroy all living weed in my yard... Round-up only makes them stronger..i dont want to spend the money to hire a professional...
Any suggestions?
... when the roman army wanted to destroy agriculture i heard they would "salt the earth" .. does this mean literally speading salt water would kill the plants? i could buy bags of road salt and a garden dening/Garden-Hose-Reel/">hose to do that.....
thanks
Salt is a bad idea. In the quantities it would take you could ruin the soil or sand and in a dry place there is no guarantee it would work (there has to be water for osmosis to reverse occur).
Ortho makes a Product that replaced Triox called Total Ground Clear (I think that's the new name--the tech would make sure you have the right stuff) or get Round-Up Extended Kill (It says it will work for 3 months on the container). Try one of those.
Regular roundup may not work if the plant isn't stressed to begin with. It works like a growth hormone that makes a plant grow itself to death. Under certain circumstances it just makes them grow.
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Aside from Belize with its strong Caribbean influence not a whole lot changes travelling from one Central American country to another. The attractive public spaces and town squares I couldn’t stop photographing when we first got to San Cristobal in Mexico with their pastel coloured colonial churches and buildings are to be found somewhere in every Central American country. As you cross borders the jungle scenery and with lives in there doesn’t change much from one country to the next. You could say the same about South East Asia but in SE Asia cultures do change markedly from one country to the next. For example Thailand and Cambobia share a land border yet the Thai people and the Khmer people of Cambodia look totally different and their cultures are seperate. You don’t really sense that all too much from one Central American country to the next. Our round the world airline ticket is fixed so that we’d have to leave the Americas from Los Angeles after my mum’s holiday with us was over. So while I was looking at a map on the internet to see how far Tulum in Mexico might be from Los Angeles I noticed something, I noticed that the next state along from Southern California and LA is Arizona.
...Trial Over What Constitutes a "Road" In Canyonlands National Park ...
There long have been pockets of disgust over federal land ownership in the West, and perhaps nowhere is that stronger than in Utah, where roughly two-thirds of the landscape is federally managed. While the " Sagebrush Rebellion " mightily reared its head some three decades ago, its waning vestiges are on trial this week over whether a creek bed constitutes a road in Canyonlands National Park .
The poster child of the rebellion rose up on July 4, 1980, when several hundred people gathered in Moab, Utah, on the doorstep of both Canyonlands and Arches national parks, to celebrate the nation's birthday...and decry federal land-management policies. From atop a Caterpillar bulldozer, one carrying a few "Sagebrush Rebel" stickers and spouting a U.S. flag from its smokestack, county officials complained about federal land managers. After firing up the crowd, the politicians fired up the bulldozer and, while following the scant traces of an abandoned mining road, worked to scrape a path into a nearby Wilderness Study Area on U.S. Bureau of Land Management lands.
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