Weeds!

[breeze]

LOL - you'll never see a cleome on
the cover of "High Times"!

[Miss Mary]

Annette - LOL Now I ask, I wonder how do you know about that magazine? You kill me......

Margarita's anyone? That's a safe vice there Annette!!! I'll take mine with salt please. Parking my chair next to yours, we can watch the cleome grow practically overnight!!!

Mary

[Pburgh]

Mary, try the salt on your weeds!!!! Not your pot or you drink lol - actually take that Morton's Salt box outside and pull as much of the root as you can and pour in some salt.

I love Cleome and it does look like "weed"!!!!!

[Miss Mary]

Karan - I'll try that! Heard white vinegar did the same thing, full strength. But it didn't do squat! Salt makes sense. And if the dog licks, it's just salt.

I will say I have Salt Sense on hand, reduced sodium salt. We've used that for years ever since my dad had his heart trouble back in the mid-80s. Guess I'd have to get the real thing but it's cheap-cheap isn't it?

Thanks.

Mary

[Miss Mary]

New 2006 weed question.....

If I've severely cut down my shrubs (cotoneaster is one) and I can clearly see the weed that grows near the cotoneaster roots, but not inside the rootball, can I spray roundup at the weed's root area? And if I do, will the shrub be okay?

I hacked my cotoneaster down to a foot off the ground and 8 inches away is a nice weed, that is huge if I leave it alone. Almost looks like a small tree. I can't dig it out, it would be hard to get to.

This area is in my front yard, nowhere our dog's electric collar range. So I can use a Roundup type product.

Thanks!

[weathermom]

Mary, my understanding is that round up needs to be absorbed through the leaves and kills the plant that way. Maybe it would work on just the root, I don't know.

As for spraying near your shrub, if you are afraid it will get on the shrub you can use a paint brush and put it on the weed that way. It will not spread from the weed to the shrub if you only put it on the weed. I have painted poison ivy near other plants in the past and it never harmed the other plants.

Good luck!

[Pburgh]

I don't like to use Roundup at all. Bayer has a weed killer called Bayer Advanced Garden Grass and Weed killer. I'd try that. I like all the Bayer products.

[Miss Mary]

I thought you were going to say Bayer Aspirin, Karan! LOL I don't care for Round Up either, I know it's very harmful to pets - it's really poison. I'll look for these products.

I just want to kill this weed, b/c the stems and leaves come up all summer long, thru-out this 2 plant cotoneaster grouping I have. And if you've ever touch a cotoneaster with your bare hands, it hurts. Even with gloves on. This is the time to get that weed b/c I can easily see it.

Thanks Loren for your reply too. I usually just pull weeds but have sprayed a few that come between the driveway concrete sections. I keep Round Up on hand for that. Or a generic type product.

Mary

[Pburgh]

Take two aspirin, spray on some Bayer and call me in the morning!!!! LOL

[DaylilyDawn]

To kill a weed growing near a plant you want to save, dip a small foam paintbrush into the full strength Roundup and "paint it" on the leaves of the weed. It will not get into the plant you want to save . I learned this tip from a person who wanted to save a daylily that had a weed growing right next to the crown. Couldn't use Roundup without killing the daylily too. So they used a small foam paintbrush to put the Roundup on the leaves of the weed. Two days later the weed was gone and the daylily was sending up a scape to bloom.

[Miss Mary]

DDD - good idea! This is the time of year to do it too, when all the leaves are gone. I'll try and remember this suggestion.

Mary

[DaylilyDawn]

Glad I cpould help Miss Mary!

[Miss Mary]

We occasionally purchase items from a catalog called Improvements. I saw a blow torch for sale, @ $39.99. It was recommended for melting ice on porches and sidewalks and for blasting stubborn weeds. I did a whoa! Seems extreme but thought I'd mention it for anyone who wants to get rid of weeds (or melt ice this winter, if we ever have a winter!). I think I'll try the paint method you suggested DDD first. It's much cheaper but this blow torch idea sounds like it would work too!

http://www.improvementscatalog.com/prod ... 5Fid=12440

Mary

[DaylilyDawn]

I have seen that blow torch in a catalog too Miss Mary. My problem with it it would be how to keep everything else from going up in flames while I kill the weed.

[JonathanBelles]

i've never seen weeds in January, usually the grass is brown.

[DaylilyDawn]

Here in lakeland I have weeds that are green and growing with all the warm weather we have had.

[Pburgh]

Here in Pittsburgh, my weeds are still growing too!!!

[sunny]

I almost had a heart attack when I read the title. I'm thinking Mary and weed? NO WAY!!!!

[JonathanBelles]

Here in Pittsburgh, my weeds are still growing too!!!

i should know the answer but have you had snow yet?

[Pburgh]

We had about 1/2 inch of snow before Thanksgiving but that's it!!!!