Glyphosate Mix For Weed Control
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A Glyphosate mix for the best weed control. The best weed killer, the most effective weed killer is a mix of glyphosate, water, dish soap and sulfate of ammonia. Yes, you read it right, sulfate of ammonia, a fertilizer. Are we going to fertilize our weeds as we try to kill them? Is this sort of a last meal for the condemned weed? You say I have got to be out of my mind. Read on.
How it all started
It all started many years ago when I noticed that while using the same sprayer, the same amount of herbicide and the same additives the mix would yield very different results. I started to investigate if there was something I was missing. Well here is an excerpt from the paper that I eventually found, the reason why my glyphosate mix for weed control would work well once and not so well another time.
Eliminator Super Concentrate Weed and Grass Killer, 32 fl oz – Amazon.com
The reason it was hit or miss
What it came down to was that I had a hard water problem. The glyphosate would not attach itself effectively to the water molecules so when the water was really hard the outcome of my roundup mixes was less than stellar. When I started to use sulfate of ammonia in the roundup mix my results became consistent and reliable. Every batch of the weed killer mix killed the weeds like I felt they should be killed. Quickly, and most important, effectively leaving no survivors.
The other ingredient to go into the sprayer tank is a surfactant to break down the waxy protective barrier that some weeds have.
RL Flo-Master Garden Sprayers-Amazon.com
Safety first
Before continuing wear, all required safety equipment.
So here’s the mix (I use a 2gal sprayer)
- water in the sprayer about 3″ deep to start
- a large squirt of dish soap
- 1/2 cup of sulfate of ammonia
- Glyphosate at the recommended rates per gallon
- 1 clean rag(old sock with no holes works best) for straining the sulfate of ammonia
Directions:
- Add the water to the 3″ depth, put a large squirt of dish soap to the water in the sprayer tank
- Do not add the ammonia straight into the tank. Place the rag over the sprayer tank opening.
- Put the sulfate of ammonia in the rag and trickle water(warm is best) into the tank slowly to dissolve the sulfate of ammonia.
- When the sulfate of ammonia is fully dissolved, remove the rag and discard appropriately.
- Fill the sprayer tank to the almost full line and add the glyphosate.
- Replace the pump mechanism and shake the sprayer tank to get a good mix of the ingredients.
- Go out there and show no mercy to those weeds.
Want to learn more about surfactants(click here)
Want to learn more about Glyphosate usage(click here)
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(Andy F [CC BY-SA 2.0 (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.0)], via Wikimedia Commons)
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