best weedkiller?

Kim_kim

Please advise?

Gallup
http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/1-X-5L-GALLUP-360-VERY-STRONG-PROFESSIONAL-GLYPHOSATE-WEEDKILLER-/141363616088?pt=UK_Home_Garden_Garden_Plants_Fertiliser_CV&hash=item20e9ed9958

Clinic Ace
http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/1-X-5L-CLINIC-ACE-VERY-STRONG-PROFESSIONAL-GLYPHOSATE-WEEDKILLER-/141370155978?pt=UK_Home_Garden_Garden_Plants_Fertiliser_CV&hash=item20ea5163ca

Monsanto amenity
http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/1-x-5L-Monsanto-Amenity-360-Very-Strong-Professional-Glyphosate-Weedkiller-/131206580756?pt=UK_Home_Garden_Garden_Plants_Fertiliser_CV&hash=item1e8c858a14

Rosate 360
http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/1-x-5L-Rosate-36-Very-Strong-Professional-Glyphosate-Weedkiller-/131262813853?pt=UK_Home_Garden_Garden_Plants_Fertiliser_CV&hash=item1e8fdf969d

Or are they all the same?

moaninggit

all the same strength of gyphosphate but they may have slightly different wetting agentsthis one gets good reveiws
http://www.pitchcare.com/shop/professional-total-weed-killers/clinic-ace-herbicide-glyphosate-5l.html

silvasava

I've been buying Glyphosphate from Wilkinsons - put it in a sprayer at 1 1/2 times the strength & it killed ivy & bindweed in a few weeks. Enough for me to be able to tackle the ground. I just resprayed when any bindweed bits emerged & it seems to have done the trick

SailorSam

Much cheaper and a lot more eco-friendly i use salt. 1kg of salt makes 3 watering cans full. Or you can use vinegar. Both work.
http://www.garden-counselor-lawn-care.com/vinegar-weed-killer.html

holgate79

I can vouch for rosate-36. It kills the roots and the foliage of all it comes into contact with.

Dilute 1:10 and wait 28 days. Weeds won't start to look dead until about 3 weeks have passed ( unlike some other weedkillers where leaves can go black after 12 hours).

I have used it to kill grass, dandelions, dock leaves etc.

Brambles and ivy seems to need a second application or a slightly higher concentration.

Vinegar doesn't kill weeds - it browns the leaves so they look dead for a week or so however the roots are not affected and the weeds will come back.

SailorSam

holgate79 wrote: »

I have used it to kill grass, dandelions, dock leaves etc.

Brambles and ivy seems to need a second application or a slightly higher concentration.

As you say Holgate even with commercial weedkillers you may need multiple applications. Salt & vinegar are no different you'll often need to apply them several times. But then i pay about 60p in Tesco for 1kg of salt so at that rate how does it compare to a shop bought one.
http://www.gardenguides.com/107601-salt-weed-killer.html

arbrighton

But the salt in the soil will affect all the other plants too eventually

savemoney

I use rosate36 on my allotment works great but does take a little while to work, kills Mares tail and Bindweed if you use slightly stronger mix. I have a 5 litre bottle should last years I use a 5 litre sprayer with it.

Ianwzzz

Rosate 36 is really good weed killer

N9eav

Anything with Gylphosphate in it Used to called Round-up

Davesnave

N9eav wrote: »

Anything with Gylphosphate in it Used to called Round-up

Almost nonsense, but not quite.

Round up is the trade name Monsanto use for their versions of weedkiller containing the active ingredient, glyphosate.

There is now no reason for other manufacturers to pay royalties on that chemical, so they can make generic versions and call them what they like.

How are all you folks going to get on after next autumn, when sales of 'professional' weedkillers to the general public are forbidden?