Ground Clear spray ??

[Ed Bowen]

I have an overgrown area [weeds/light brush] less than an acre I need to clear. No trees to be concerned about. What is the" best bang for the buck" product to use? See several saying they will last a year, & clear to the ground. Thank you.

 

[flying belgian]

I have an overgrown area [weeds/light brush] less than an acre I need to clear. No trees to be concerned about. What is the" best bang for the buck" product to use? See several saying they will last a year, & clear to the ground. Thank you.

I guess I would just till it.

 

[MARK ROBKE]

I have an overgrown area [weeds/light brush] less than an acre I need to clear. No trees to be concerned about. What is the" best bang for the buck" product to use? See several saying they will last a year, & clear to the ground. Thank you.

If you want to spray, then Crossbow would be the ticket. However, whatever comes back up will be from seed that is already in the ground. If you don't till and seed with something (grass or some crop) you will be spraying maybe once a month-6 weeks. Mark.

 

[Mule Meat]

Brush hog over it a couple of times. Then spray it. Instead of spraying 6' tall weeds, you would be spraying 3" ones.

 

[john in la]

What final outcome do you want.

If you want to kill the weeds and leave the grass something like 24D
If you want to kill everything in sight use Glyphosate
If you want to kill everything and have nothing grow for months then use RM43 that is Glyphosate plus a pre emergent to stop new seeds from germinating.

Like said if you can brush cut the area first to entice new growth do that as it will help the chemicals work.

 

[Ed Bowen]

What final outcome do you want.

If you want to kill the weeds and leave the grass something like 24D
If you want to kill everything in sight use Glyphosate
If you want to kill everything and have nothing grow for months then use RM43 that is Glyphosate plus a pre emergent to stop new seeds from germinating.

Like said if you can brush cut the area first to entice new growth do that as it will help the chemicals work.

I'm wanting #3 ,I should have posted, there is junk in the area so I want to kill off the growth so I clear it and then, I can cut / bushog. Thank you

 

[Don B.]

Gas and a match? I see guys burn off the ditches around their farm fields.
Does that sterilize the ground and keep things from growing again?
I know when I take my leaves into the ditch in the fall and light the pile not much grows back the next year....
I have an area in my yard im fighting seeds that must be already in the dirt, try to till and plant grass and I get crabgrass and soybeans (or what looks like soybeans anyway) instead. I'm on the 2nd go round of tilling raking and reseeding.
On this 2nd round I doused the area heavy with 41% glypho, let it sit 3-4 days to soak in, when everything was crispy brown, I brought in a truckload (Dakota-load) of horse manure and spread that out before I retilled it.
I ran out though so only got horse crap on about 90% of the tilled area...

 

[john in la]

I'm wanting #3 ,I should have posted, there is junk in the area so I want to kill off the growth so I clear it and then, I can cut / bushog. Thank you

If the weeds are tall you may have to spray twice as the pre emergent may not make it down to the dirt in the first spraying.

 

[flying belgian]

Gas and a match? I see guys burn off the ditches around their farm fields.
Does that sterilize the ground and keep things from growing again?
I know when I take my leaves into the ditch in the fall and light the pile not much grows back the next year....
I have an area in my yard im fighting seeds that must be already in the dirt, try to till and plant grass and I get crabgrass and soybeans (or what looks like soybeans anyway) instead. I'm on the 2nd go round of tilling raking and reseeding.
On this 2nd round I doused the area heavy with 41% glypho, let it sit 3-4 days to soak in, when everything was crispy brown, I brought in a truckload (Dakota-load) of horse manure and spread that out before I retilled it.
I ran out though so only got horse crap on about 90% of the tilled area...

Horse crap=weed seeds.
Especially this year. All the grass hay was seeded out before we could make it. Every dandelion, every thistle, every rag weed, all seeded out and baled up in the horse hay.
When I custom farmed for the organic neighbor all the manure we spread was cooked 1st then dried to kill the weed seeds.
By spreading house manure you will never win the weed battle.

 

[E.B. Haymakin']

I have an overgrown area [weeds/light brush] less than an acre I need to clear. No trees to be concerned about. What is the" best bang for the buck" product to use? See several saying they will last a year, & clear to the ground. Thank you.

The RM43 John in la mentioned is what I use. Its active ingredients are glyphosate high %and imazypr. It works well for me, unless sprayed in a area with running water the imazypr is likely washed away. RM43 is marketed as a ground clearing product available at Tractor Supply as I have found. It can be found at hardware stores. These herbicides are on the shelf but fairly pricey. The Eraser line has an equivalent to RM43 also. Have been happy with RM43.

 

[4520BW]

Gramoxone. It will all be dead the next day!

 

[showcrop]

Horse crap=weed seeds.
Especially this year. All the grass hay was seeded out before we could make it. Every dandelion, every thistle, every rag weed, all seeded out and baled up in the horse hay.
When I custom farmed for the organic neighbor all the manure we spread was cooked 1st then dried to kill the weed seeds.
By spreading house manure you will never win the weed battle.

It makes no sense to cook manure to kill seeds then spread it on ground that is full of weed seeds.

 

[flying belgian]

It makes no sense to cook manure to kill seeds then spread it on ground that is full of weed seeds.

I don't know. I just spread what they hauled in there. I was just custom farming it. I didn't have a horse in the race.

 

[caterpillar guy]

Even if you spray it then the dead foliage will still be there just dead and harder to see through for debris laying around. Best to just have a go out and look for it then once found either pick it up and load on something or pile it so you can mow or load later before mowing. It would take a couple years of rotting to get tall plant matter to get down so you can see through it to find things before driving over them. Or you could use a loader bucket to slide over or into things laying around then pickup into bucket and dump or push off to side of field. No good solution for it till it is done then not leave junk laying around in fields which you probably didn't do.