On May 12, 7:31*pm, Nate Nagel wrote:
Hi all,

hoping for advice from someone with a green thumb here... *friend of
mine has a house that was vacant for a while before he bought it so all
the landscaping went to heck. *One thing that still looks promising is
some thick hedges between his driveway and his neighbor's driveway. *I
suspect that they are English boxwood but am not knowledgeable enough to
say for sure.) *Unfortunately, there were all sorts of weeds and such
growing right up through them and choking them. *Last fall he and I did
some serious weeding in there and literally removed a truckload of
undesirable plant matter as well as dead branches from the area, then
hit it again in the early spring, yielding much less mess.
Unfortunately, both times I broke out with what I believe now is a rash
caused by some nasty viney stuff... doesn't look like the poison ivy I'm
familiar with but now that it's late spring I can see it coming back
again and this time the new leaves are shiny making me hesitant to touch
it. *There's some other stuff coming up in there as well that shouldn't
be there. *The good news is that after all that work, the hedges
themselves are filling in nicely and I think after a couple years of
letting them grow and shaping them they will be back to their former
glory. *Now that it's lawn-mowing season I've also been encouraging him
to toss his grass clippings under there to keep down any non-established
weeds, but apparently there's a few that we couldn't kill by
pulling/digging that keep coming back.

So the question. *Now that we've done the heavy lifting, is there any
kind of herbicide that I could use that won't kill the boxwoods? *I've
tried to pull everything that I could but apparently there are some
weeds with long-established, deep roots that might best be killed by
other methods.

Oddly, I've searched and found others asking similar questions, but not
getting any definitive answers. *Is that because what I'm looking for
doesn't exist?

thanks,

nate

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If the undesirable is growing up out of the boxwoods
enough so that you can spray a good bit of it, then
you can kill it with Roundup/glyphosate. Just pull it
to the side when you spray it or use a shield of
cardboard, etc, so that you don't get the spray on the
boxwoods. I'd use it at about 6% concentration so
one application should kill it.