"dpb" wrote in message ...
Eigenvector wrote:
Is there an herbicide, LEGALLY available, that will utterly kill any
grasses and dandilions without poisioning the waterfoul or turn my yard
and surrounding countryside into a desert wasteland?

I'd like to spray a 18" strip around my house's foundation to rid myself
of all vegetation BEFORE I rototill it up and put down heavy fabric and
rocks. But I fear that anything that can kill bermuda grass (of which I
have an abundance) and rabbit brush will also lay my yard to waste

Roundup is probably the best choice from what is available w/o an
applicators' license. It won't kill what it isn't applied to (that is, it
isn't soil residual).

It will certainly kill Bermuda but unless you get rid of _all_ traces of
Bermuda, being what it is, it'll soon be back from elsewhere. And, of
course, having had it, even if you kill all the current living, the seed
from previous is still around to germinate and start over again.

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Well I can live with that. As long as I put down a nice heavy black plastic
sheet over the dirt and pile rocks on top I can take out any Bermuda grass
stringers by hand. That part the really ****es me off about weeds is that
they grow so nicely in the garden, under the eaves, in the bushes, but they
don't seem to grow in the lawn to fill in those dead spots that I
perennially have.