On 25 Oct, 13:15, Jim K wrote:
On 25 Oct, 08:25, Tim Lamb wrote:





In message , chris French
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Actually, I would just plant your trees in with the nettles and thistles:
this will hide them from the rabbits and deer to some extent and give them a
chance to get rooted before the top gets browsed off. *Remember: the HARD
thing, is STOPPING land reverting to woodland. *Large numbers of
conservation volunteers spend most of their time trying to stop woodland
from forming on what they want to keep as grassland. *If you just fenced out
your 1.5 acres from deer and rabbits you would soon have a wood.

Yes, and no.

If you are planting trees then just leaving them to battle it out with
the weeds isn't the best course, a significant number will probably
lose the battle.

One simple trick is to *mulch* the area immediately around your sapling..

You can use a 1m square piece of cheap roofing felt with an X cut in the
middle. Turn up some turf to hold the corners down.

Roundup was designed to kill grasses. Anything else is good fortune.

mmm think the idea was/is to breed genetically modified crops that the
lucky farmer could buy from monsatno and then spray the lot with
monstano Glyphosate to "just kill the weeds" amongst the crops..

Having said that it will kill anything that uses chlorophyll incl
trees, tree stumps, Jap Knotweed.

Dosage can be tricky as you need to poison the plant but allow it to
move the Glyphosate around the entire plant for a "systemic" kill.
Splashing it on neat etc is just a waste as you kill the plants top
growth before it can move around the plant - so it regrows....

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It can be used neat. There are micro sprayers that dipense it in a
very fine mist. Power operated, work at high pressure. Used from
helicopters and crop spraying aircraft too. Saves weight & landings.