Mowing ..

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Thanks for everyone's feedback.

Wrt my preference to not use glyphosate, I don't have enough knowledge to make my own judgement on it, but the company I work for (a large national company with many operational sites) has banned the use of it across all of its sites. That's enough for me to not want to use unless I'm left with no other practical options.

Just to put my request into context, I took a few pics yesterday to help explain what I'm after.

This is my outdoor area that I want to control weeds in. I want everything gone, so an indiscriminate weed killer works perfectly. The larger weeds I can remove by hand, but some of them are very labour intensive and I also want to get any young weeds before they get big enough to remove by hand.



A close up showing some of the weed types. I've got no idea what they are, just that I don't want them and they come back on strength when I use the seasol. The ones in the lower left of the pic are a pain. When you try to pull them out, they have multiple stems growing from the root and the root is pretty deep. Trying to pull these out by hand just removes the stems and rarely gets the root out. Hence, they grow back very quickly.



I did this area by hand yesterday, but I have a feeling that I'm not getting the roots out as the weeds return in about two weeks. Again, I'd like to spray to try and kill the roots and prevent them coming back for a bit longer than two weeks.



And, along the border between the rocked area and the lawn, I get sprouts of what I think is kikuya. I try pulling these back to the runners as best I can, but there are some spots where the runners are buried and I can't pull them back to the lawn. Again, a spray that kills the roots would be good. Selective application of glyphosate would be appropriate in this instance.



Hope that helps explain my situation a bit better.