Weeds

[alisonb]

How do you handle weeds under and around fruit trees? I've been too chicken to use poison :help:

 

[M5farm]

round up

 

[M.Magis]

What sort of weeds do you mean? I mow under mine.

 

[alisonb]

Well some weeds but mostly a 'kweek' grass. I think you refer to it as Bermuda grass or couch grass, with it's rhizomes and stolons plus seed. It's terrible :shock: . I have Round Up but am just scared it kills off the trees. Perhaps try spraying around a couple of trees first and see what happens....

 

[M5farm]

Well some weeds but mostly a 'kweek' grass. I think you refer to it as Bermuda grass or couch grass, with it's rhizomes and stolons plus seed. It's terrible :shock: . I have Round Up but am just scared it kills off the trees. Perhaps try a couple of trees first and see what happens....

don't spray the trees just the "grass, Weeds" I spray around fig, peach, plum, lemon trees with no problems. For small trees I use a Old political sign as a shield against the tree or shrub.

 

[skyhightree1]

round up

ditto

 

[TN Cattle Man]

round up

Round-up all the way!!

Depending on the size of the trees, you can always wrap the base to prevent any exposure to the young wood when spraying.

 

[cow pollinater]

Glyphosate(roundup) will kill Bermuda grass but if you have any suckers on your trees it will damage the tree as well so you have to be careful not to get any drift and sucker before you spray. Contact killers like Rely can be applied directly to the suckers and it will save you the time of suckering in addition to knocking down the weeds.
Personally, I knock the suckers off and hit any glyphosate resistant weeds with the Rely and then spray the rest of it with glyphosate.

 

[alisonb]

Much obliged fellas :D . CP, does not look like we have Rely here in SA, will inquire directly from agents.

Here is an article some of you may find interesting - http://www.growingproduce.com/article/32583/rely-herbicide-in-short-supply