Poison Hemlock Question Again

[Texasmark]

Surely this would be the place to learn of "real life" experiences with this noxious weed. I am soliciting my fellow posters to share some of your real life experiences with this nuisance plant. All I can glean off the www is "dooms day" reports. I have a problem with that in that if it was as bad as sources are indicating, then why haven't I ever heard of it at 84 years old and having this farm since 1978? You'd think it would be headline news one would think....I do! On having this farm since 1978 this is the first time I ever saw it much less on this property......it's like a drone flew over and dropped seeds all over the place!!!!!!

I have some plants that are stiff and brown, got them when the blooms were young with more than a generous soaking with Glyphosate. Been several weeks now since dosing and I have some around some implements I want to use but don't know the right way to get rid of them so that I can get to the implements.

Your actual experience may seem trivial to you but may be what I have been waiting to hear.....and no I am not about to eat it or use it for shaving soap.

I really would like to hear from you.
Thanks,
Mark

 

[da.bees]

Well sir,welcome to the club. I've made 81 trips around the sun while my feet were firmly planted in Texas and this is the first I heard it mentioned. After viewing several pictures on WWW. , I realized I've been wading around in it all along. You are correct, to here them tell it I should have died decades ago. IDK for certain but willing to lay odds lawyers are behind all the chicken little hype. People writing about it don't want to risk liability over failure to fully warn readers. Did your mother and grandmothers prepare Polk Salad (or similar name) when you were a kid? Served fresh as the name might suggest, will give you a bad case of back trots at best, kill you at worst or a host of elements between.

If you have reason to believe you are allergic to skin exposure, do as I do with Greenbriar. Greenbriar must have a little snake blood in it because it strikes out when cut or even brushed against. A hedge trimmer attachment on my string trimmer allows me to stay a safe distance while clearing briars. You can cut Hemlock then use rake to clear paths to your implements.
I did come away from WWW with a piece of good information. It requires 2 years for maturity and seed production then dies. In first year it has a few large leaves flat on ground called rosette then in second year towers up producing blossoms and seed. Broom Weed, a common nemesis of grazing and hay land starts as the same rosette. Never once has an ag extension agent or herbicide label pointed this out but half the amount of herbicide recommended for control will kill Broom Weed in rosette stage. Sooo if you want Bermuda to remain, try spraying during rosette stage with 2-4D rather than Roundup.

 

[Texasmark]

Thank you sir for taking the time to share your experiences and thoughts. I agree that the CYA effect is out of control...examples hit us in the face daily where big nnalert has a product designed to do you some good and then in the fine print there are 25 reasons you don't want to buy it. Surely the same applies to this weed as everybody seems to be singing the same song.

With them talking about it taking a month or two for the root to get killed, I may do a minimum of cleanup, just around the things I need, and wait on the rest of it. Then, later on in the summer get in some kind of monkey suit and investigate the flower pods for seeds. If I think I sprayed it before seeds formed, then I'll clean up the mess. If not, I'll wait till this fall, or next spring (data says it blooms twice a year) and use the dead plants to identify where the seeds have fallen, sprouted a new plant, and kill them early on.

Remedy (the main ingredient) with a surfactant, is said to be the only thing besides Glyphosate that kills it. The thing about Remedy is that it doesn't kill grass like Glyphosate.....but I bought 2.5 gallons of Roundup for $75 but 1 gallon of Remedy was $99......from 2 different suppliers which may be the reason for the price disparity, maybe not.

Again, thank you sir for your reply.