Roundup weedkiller

Had a quick look at most of that but it's mostly internet rubbish put up by people with an axe to grind.
Not much that really suggests glyphosate should be banned.

 

Perhaps it's to control under arm hair. My original comment was based upon scientific literature I reglarly get, and also the more recent controversy relating to crop spraying, nicotinoides etc. Glysophate the main ingrediant of Roundup. I wonder how many of us have used this against bindweed, only to find that it doesn't completely do the job it's claimed to do. Yet farmers spray with it and other concotions and they get results. To me, this suggests that what you and I pay out for at the garden center is knats pee compared to the commercial grade.

Local observations seem to prove to me that for the average gardener to spend out on Roundup, you are fighting a losing battle. In all my years, I have yet to find a case where Roundup or for that matter any other chemical has totally destroyed unwanted garden growths.

 

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Mike I don’t use domestic stuff, I’m trained up so I only use commercial products but even domestic products require me to have the training.
Yes the commercial stuff has benefits but most of the time with domestic use it’s not applying at the correct time, over application and simply not reading the instructions.
I find Roundup Pro very effective but I only apply when conditions and plant growth are suited to the application regardless of the customer requirements.
Common mistakes in a domestic setting is over application in the belief it’s the best way to deal with weeds where a bit of manual work can be just as effective. Time saving is why it’s used so much.
I said on another thread a while back that herbicides will disappear from the shelves for domestic use and with Julia Kloeckner in Germany who is setting up to ban Glysophate it’s now not if it will be banned but when.

 

What really concerns me is the way Roundup is misused pre harvest on cereal crops. It’s sprayed on about two weeks before harvest, kills off the wheat and then the wheat is harvested. It’s no surprise that most bread tests positive for Roundup. It’s shocking. I don’t have a big problem with Roundup being used on paths, along railway lines and applications like that but directly on wheat is IMO, a really big problem and what is driving the proposed ban. I think Monsanto have shot themselves in the foot by promoting its use in this way. They are a totally irresponsible company.

 

Commercial growers of potatos have to be put under the spotlight too. Until very recently they used sulphuric acid on the crop just before harvest and now its replacement diquat is being lookedcat as another chemical that will shortly be banned.
Maybe this is why so many people around me in the rural towns are being killed off with various forms of cancers?

 

I've got enough to treat an area the size of 27 football pitches (yes, I don't like football!).

 

The miss use of insecticdes should also be looked into as well


Just look at fly sprays and how some people just spray it every where if they know what in side the can they wouldn't use it, i don't

 

Does it work on astro turf ?

 

That's got me thinking about whether it's safe to smoke GM glyphosate resistant tobacco that's been sprayed with Roundup? And who to blame if you get cancer?