Sage Brush

[Flatbroke]

I have some I think it is silver sage, but it might be big sage that grows in my pasture along the drive into the homestead. It is getting thicker. There is a lot of it on the rest of the ranch as well. What herbicide would kill the sage and not the grass under it. I have cut it down with hand shears and it just seems to make it mad and it coms back thicker. Help! :cowboy:

 

[Craig Miller]

Get a soil test. Some of it can be controlled with by getting the soil to the right ph.

 

[Lucky_P]

Craig, I suspect flatbroke's talking about actual sagebrush - Artemisia tridentata - not broomsedge (yeah, we mangled the name to broomsage down in UCLA, too) - Andropogon virginicus.
Different critter altogether.
I have no idea if liming will affect broom sage - or if fb's soils need lime. Seems like it prefers alkaline soil from the outset.

 

[Craig Miller]

Craig, I suspect flatbroke's talking about actual sagebrush - Artemisia tridentata - not broomsedge (yeah, we mangled the name to broomsage down in UCLA, too) - Andropogon virginicus.
Different critter altogether.
I have no idea if liming will affect broom sage - or if fb's soils need lime. Seems like it prefers alkaline soil from the outset.

Okay. I had a feeling he was talking about something different than I was but I only know about the one kind of sage that we have here.

 

[Nesikep]

If I were to guess, he probably has a sagebrush similar to ours, if it's sagebrush.. I found watering it kills it, and it doesn't like the brushhog either... there is another sage-like thing around here too, but perhaps that's the broomsedge?

 

[Lucky_P]

Sagebrush: http://plants.usda.gov/plantguide/pdf/pg_artr2.pdf

Broomsedge: http://plants.usda.gov/factsheet/pdf/fs_anvi2.pdf

 

[greybeard]

Reading a bit, sounds like 2,4d will work, tho I alsosee where some good success was achieved with Spike herbicide in Arizona.

http://digitalcommons.unl.edu/cgi/viewc ... ensionhist