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FF.Com.Au Hardcore
Join Date: Dec 2007
Location: Ballarat
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I got a lot of free fill when i bought my place 5 years ago, so free in fact that cartage was free.
Seems to be contaminated with some out of this world weeds. They laughed at roundup. So i covered the whole thing is 300mm of crushed concrete and compacted it. Due to my neglect of it out of frustration i now have what can only be described as weed trees. Id need a slasher to mow this, so every weekend i got get a pair of diaposable overalls and don a face mask and the poor whipper snipper is on max revs for about 2 hours and 2 full tanks. 2 weeks ago i bought 200kg of pool salt and put it on some weeds in the front yard and seems this has put the weeds in their place ie dead. I want to cover my whole block with it and perhaps just blue metal on top but this will take a LOT of salt. Ideas would be good if anyones done this, Ive never felt so defeated at something so stupid. |
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Join Date: Dec 2013
Location: Western sydney
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Im pretty sure its an epa violation to salt the ground. Granted my property isnt that big, but from a neighbouring property through to another there was this weed/tree like weed that popped up but had a common root between the weeds. What i did was also not really epa friendly, but i found where it entered at my fence line dug it out and cut the root, put a little petrol on it. Cut the weed, again a little more petrol and kept digging cutting and dousing. 100% not the recomended method, but it did work. Didnt kill any grass either.
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Join Date: Apr 2007
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Go to any farm supplies outlet and ask. They'll be able to recommend an appropriate course of action.
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I personally wouldn't add salt. You could end up with a bigger headache than the weeds.
Do you have a photo of said weeds? Maybe add Dicamba or MCPA to the Roundup. |
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You need either a pre-emergent to stop the seeds germinating or something like Numchuck quad to knock the existing weeds down and mop up the remaining seed
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You need to work out what it is so you can kill them properly.
Salting the earth basically kills the land indefinatly. May as well soak the ground in diesel.
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Can using too much fertilizer work? I once killed an entire garden bed using fish emulsion fertilizer - too concentrated and too often. After 2 years and plenty of watering later, it provided a bountiful abundance of healthy vegetation.
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Salt would have to be cheaper..........
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If you still want to put salt on it just go to your local fertilizer works they should be able to supply it
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Taking the worlds fastest Indian as inspiration, and dialling it down a notch:
https://www.ebay.com.au/itm/31422011...AaAoYNEALw_wcB |
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