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  • From: "Jack Lane" <jacklane AT mstar2.net>
  • To: "'ktk2a'" <ktk2a AT earthlink.net>, "'Market Farming'" <market-farming AT lists.ibiblio.org>
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  • Subject: RE: [Market-farming] Re: Japanese Knotwood
  • Date: Sat, 14 May 2005 21:30:17 -0400

Roundup is a great tool for weed suppression. It is best used in
the fall when the perennial plants can take the herbicide down into the
roots. I had some great suppression of a curly dock infested field using
a broadcast of generic roundup last fall.
That being said you need to make sure and plant a crop or cover
crop in the spring. Otherwise you let mother nature take over. Roundup
just kills living plants, it does nothing for the seeds that exist in
the "seed bank" of all soils.
I hear you can get similar weed suppression if you cultivate and
overseed with a vigorous cover crop. Anyone had success doing that with
rhizomous persistent weeds?



but it is only one of the tools to consider when developing an overall
Integrated Pest Management strategy.
-----Original Message-----
From: market-farming-bounces AT lists.ibiblio.org
[mailto:market-farming-bounces AT lists.ibiblio.org] On Behalf Of ktk2a
Sent: Saturday, May 14, 2005 12:20 PM
To: Market Farming
Subject: [Market-farming] Re: Japanese Knotwood


When I moved here 5 years ago there was a large stand of Japanese
Knotwood...didn't know what it was at the time and left it alone.
However
within two years the stand had doubled in size to about 50 x 80 feet,
and
appeared to keep spreading and was taking over my garden. I brush
hogged it
down, and dug some of the rhizomes, but quickly discovered that was an
impossible job. So, organic concerns aside, I began spraying with a
product
that I got at the feed store with the active ingredient glyphosate,
believe
the same ingredient is in Roundup. 3 years later I have a few
sproutings,
but overall, I believe I am finally winning the battle. However now,
the
horsetail is taking over....will it ever end??

Kathy
Cedarglen
Western WA


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