Need some help dealing with grass in crops

JOCCO · Aug 5, 2016

Not really crops but large gardens. I have grasses and wondered what I could use? We have grass killer for crop land like poast, select etc. Was thinking about atrazine or some thing like it??? Cannot damage plants but even with cultivator the grass is a problem. And as with a garden you have more than one item not just say corn or pumpkin. Even a mild store bought type would be ok I guess. Give me your thoughts. thanks

coonie minnie · Aug 5, 2016

Not sure if poast or select would be labelled for garden crops. Read the label first.

You may try round-up, sprayed with a hand sprayer, and of course shielding the row of garden plants you are working on.

JOCCO · Aug 5, 2016

no on round up

FBH44 · Aug 5, 2016

My opinion is that if you selectively, carefully spray a small spray of Roundup, and are careful not to let it drift onto your food crops, you MIGHT be OK. I'd try it on a small area first, I did discover that the drift hurt my asparagus. I believe Roundup affects only the green it touches, and th at it deactivates on contact with soil. But don't go in there with a big heavy blasting spray of Roundup on a windy day and expect no consequences.

Buddy · Aug 5, 2016

How about a tiller, and a hand operated weeding ho.
Along with a little sweat.

Ken Macfarlane · Aug 5, 2016

Not spray but you could probably wipe with round up.

caterpillar guy · Aug 5, 2016

If not roundup then try Fusilade it is a grass herbicide. You will probably have to shield the plants you want to save. fusilade is for grass in Beans. Will kill corn. That is one of the reasons for using it is to get the volunteer corn in beans. Could also use liberty. It will kill all like roundup. Will need to shield plants again for that.

comfortking · Aug 5, 2016

If you try roundup do this. Use a gallon plastic jug. Anti freeze jugs work good. Cut the top off. Poke a hole in the bottom
to stick your wand through. Cut hole small so the jug hangs on. Now you have a hood and you can get real close to your
good plants.

ditchwitch · Aug 5, 2016

I actually was thinking the same thing

showcrop · Aug 5, 2016

I used to spray a lot of milkweed with round-up until the milkweed was all gone. I used a wand sprayer with no wind or breeze and put just a few drops of spray right on the milkweed. After the milkweed died there would be a ten inch diam patch of dead grass where the plant had been. It appears that the roundup must have spread through the milkweed roots to the grass.

Dave Sherburne, NY · Aug 5, 2016

use roundup, put it on with a paint brush

farmerwithmutt · Aug 5, 2016

When you cultivate do it on a good drying day that's an old trick that was taught to me. When you pull the grass out if there's any moisture there the grass will survive however if the roots dry out the plant kills off.

jimg.allentown · Aug 5, 2016

I use a weed barrier fabric in my garden. It keeps the weeds - grass included - to a minimum.
I refuse to put any kind of poisons, whether herbicide or insecticide on the food that I intend to eat. Then there is the possibility of killing the plants you want to keep while getting rid of the grass.
There is really no substitute for just getting in there with some hand tools and digging up and pulling out the unwanted plants.

Donald Lehman · Aug 5, 2016

I understand your problem. If grasses like crabgrass get ahead of you, their root system is such that you pull the garden plants out right along with the weeds. It always seems that no matter HOW careful I am with roundup I kill garden plants. I have been considering the roundup with a paint brush approach my self. Haven't tried it yet though. Even the slightest mist of roundup on cukes or squash will kill them, so be very careful.

RTR · Aug 5, 2016

(quoted from post at 16:11:34 08/05/16) Not really crops but large gardens. I have grasses and wondered what I could use? We have grass killer for crop land like poast, select etc. Was thinking about atrazine or some thing like it??? Cannot damage plants but even with cultivator the grass is a problem. And as with a garden you have more than one item not just say corn or pumpkin. Even a mild store bought type would be ok I guess. Give me your thoughts. thanks

It eats grass for breakfast in a garden. It's for sale too!

4520BW · Aug 5, 2016

Celthdim is what I use to clean up grass in my garden and flower beds. Rural king carries it and it's labeled for all kinds of garden plants. I have even used it to control volunteer corn in soybeans.

Spudm · Aug 5, 2016

Use this, it's organic.

One gallon of apple cider vinegar.
One cup of salt.
Two tablespoons of dish soap.
Mix together in a hand sprayer. You notice results almost immediately!

jeffcat · Aug 5, 2016

That is a really good idea! I have seen where in Europe they have fabric Wicks that just hang from the "sprayer" and they just touch the weeds and not the plants.

RTR · Aug 5, 2016

(quoted from post at 20:02:27 08/05/16) Use this, it's organic.

One gallon of apple cider vinegar.
One cup of salt.
Two tablespoons of dish soap.
Mix together in a hand sprayer. You notice results almost immediately!

A cultivating tractor is organic too!

paul · Aug 5, 2016

Atrazine I believe will hang around the garden a year or two and give you some issues....

Select is labeled for many garden crops and is what I would use. Just remember, corn is a grass, as are a few other garden crops so know what you are doing....

Paul

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