Most weed killers are required by law to break down in the soil in 14 days

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Jun 8, 2019
1:29:25pm

TheLost Contributor

Most weed killers are required by law to break down in the soil in 14 days

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TheLost

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I have a new house with no lawn. My dirt has become completely overrun with

itsuptoyou

6/8/19 12:59pm

Clear all the weeds with a complete vegetation killer

kotacoug

6/8/19 1:03pm

That won’t work as I will laying sod down in the next couple of months.

itsuptoyou

6/8/19 1:04pm

Shouldn't be an issue after two weeks. I've killed grass and played sod back

whiteninja

6/8/19 1:06pm

Good to know. Thank you.

itsuptoyou

6/8/19 1:07pm

Most weed killers are required by law to break down in the soil in 14 days

TheLost

6/8/19 1:29pm

Nothing I said will do anything to sod. If you were seeding grass then

kotacoug

6/8/19 1:11pm

Thanks.

itsuptoyou

6/8/19 1:24pm

Be aware there are two kinds of total vegetation killers. One kind treats the plants and kills anything

Rhino84

6/8/19 4:12pm

Pulling them will do nothing. They will just grow back.

6/8/19 1:03pm

Pulling weeds is just pruning weeds; they'll spring back immediately. Gotta use RoundUp.

ColoSpgs

6/8/19 1:04pm

Good to know. So just continuing to nuke them with RoundUp is my only option.

itsuptoyou

6/8/19 1:06pm

And bury all those little seeds in each plant?

kotacoug

6/8/19 1:13pm

Thanks. Forgive another dumb question. After trimming down to the ground -

itsuptoyou

6/8/19 1:26pm

You're making it too hard

StantonMac

6/8/19 1:39pm

Yes and yes... and don’t just get ‘round up weed killer’ get something like

kotacoug

6/8/19 3:36pm

I found that combining round up and weed be gone was the most effective

RocketCoug

6/8/19 2:04pm

Let the bobcat do the work

6/8/19 2:51pm

Very important to get infrastructure in the dirt

Heinz57

6/8/19 3:20pm

I recommend round-up, then 2 weeks after cover it with black plastic until...

bluefish

6/8/19 11:10pm

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