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Spraying undergrowth before thinning ash

  • 17-07-2013 11:48pm
    #1
    locky76
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 867 ✭✭✭


    Hey folks, is it possible to spray undergrowth with roundup in an ash plantation before thinning? I've to thin it out in a couple of weeks and there's a load of nettles etc at one end, my soft hands wouldn't be able for it :-)


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  • #2
    periodictable
    Closed Accounts Posts: 931 ✭✭✭periodictable


    Possible but unnecessary.
    Wear gloves.Or stamp down the nettles!
    If you do spray avoid the tree trunk.


  • #3
    Farmer Pudsey
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,326 ✭✭✭Farmer Pudsey


    how old are the tree's if they have no lower foliage trunks are 35-40mm diameter or more as far as I know the roundup/Gysophate will not damage them. All you want to do is kill the green of the undergrowth so the spray need not be strong as for killing undergrowth completely.


  • #4
    locky76
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 867 ✭✭✭locky76


    Farmer Pudsey wrote: »
    how old are the tree's if they have no lower foliage trunks are 35-40mm diameter or more as far as I know the roundup/Gysophate will not damage them. All you want to do is kill the green of the undergrowth so the spray need not be strong as for killing undergrowth completely.

    the trees are 15 years old and are around 200mm+ in diameter, the nettles are up around 3 feet in spots...


  • #5
    Farmer Pudsey
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    locky76 wrote: »
    the trees are 15 years old and are around 200mm+ in diameter, the nettles are up around 3 feet in spots...

    Roundup around the trunk should make no difference. Check with a garden centre or forrestor to confirm


  • #6
    Squiggle
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,257 ✭✭✭Squiggle


    locky76 wrote: »
    Hey folks, is it possible to spray undergrowth with roundup in an ash plantation before thinning? I've to thin it out in a couple of weeks and there's a load of nettles etc at one end, my soft hands wouldn't be able for it :-)

    Shouldn't be a problem but you'll get the same result with Gallup or Touchdown but they are cheaper weedkillers.


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  • #7
    Good loser
    Registered Users Posts: 3,216 ✭✭✭Good loser


    Nettles are easily trampled. They're fading by now. Spraying sounds like too much work. Give it an attepmt before spraying.


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