[gomoho]

Has anyone hired any of the individuals advertising their services to weed by the hour? I am tired of spraying round-up and with the recent rain things have once again gotten out of control. Feel like if someone could come clean up the beds I can then maintain them. My concern is they simply take of the top and not the root which will get me where. Any suggestions?

[graciegirl]

Originally Posted by gomoho

Has anyone hired any of the individuals advertising their services to weed by the hour? I am tired of spraying round-up and with the recent rain things have once again gotten out of control. Feel like if someone could come clean up the beds I can then maintain them. My concern is they simply take of the top and not the root which will get me where. Any suggestions?

It may be time to pile more pine staw on. We put Preen down (a preemergent) and add pinestraw twice a year.

[quirky3]

I've learned that weeds pull up better when the soil is moist, like right after a rain.

[chuckinca]

Temporarily remove the top cover and install filter fabric and put the top cover back.

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[gomoho]

Originally Posted by chuckinca

Temporarily remove the top cover and install filter fabric and put the top cover back.

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Too labor intensive - have lots of rock - there is weed block down but it has torn and doesn't cover then edges where the biggest problems are.
Gracie will try Preen, but have to get a handle on the mess before I do that.

[zcaveman]

REAL weed pullers are few and far between. I had a great one but she hurt her back. I found another couple that charged by the hour but I cannot get them to respond to an email to come out again. Too bad because they were really good. The one in the today's Daily Sun declined my offer. I guess I wanted more than weed pulling.

I am still looking.

Good luck. If you find one please let us know.

Z

[English Ivy]

What's wrong with weed-b-gone? Spritz it on the offending weeds, just keep it away from your plants and bushes, and in a couple days the weeds are brown and dead. Then you can easily pull the dead stuff or just let it disintegrate into the ground. This is our method and it works fine.

[Bogie Shooter]

Originally Posted by gomoho

Has anyone hired any of the individuals advertising their services to weed by the hour? I am tired of spraying round-up and with the recent rain things have once again gotten out of control. Feel like if someone could come clean up the beds I can then maintain them. My concern is they simply take of the top and not the root which will get me where. Any suggestions?

Be careful with that RoundUp it will migrate to any plantings and do them in, as well as the weeds. The weed-be-gone is a better solution.

[English Ivy]

Originally Posted by English Ivy

What's wrong with weed-b-gone? Spritz it on the offending weeds, just keep it away from your plants and bushes, and in a couple days the weeds are brown and dead. Then you can easily pull the dead stuff or just let it disintegrate into the ground. This is our method and it works fine.

Originally Posted by Bogie Shooter

Be careful with that RoundUp it will migrate to any plantings and do them in, as well as the weeds. The weed-be-gone is a better solution.

My mistake, I said weed-b-gone (whatever that is) but actually meant RoundUp. We've never had a problem with it killing anything other than the weeds and grass that invaded the planting beds. We're just careful where we squirt it. Been doing it this way for over 5 years.

[Bill-n-Brillo]

Weed-Be-Gone is actually good to use around landscape bed edges as it kills off the weeds but not the grass......unless you've got the Zoysia working its way into the beds!

Bill

[jimbo2012]

No chemical method

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[Bill-n-Brillo]

Google propane weed burner "house fire"

Bill

[shcisamax]

So the Weedbgone will kill the Zoysia that is coming into the beds? Those runners are unbelievably fast.

[CFrance]

Originally Posted by English Ivy

My mistake, I said weed-b-gone (whatever that is) but actually meant RoundUp. We've never had a problem with it killing anything other than the weeds and grass that invaded the planting beds. We're just careful where we squirt it. Been doing it this way for over 5 years.

I've used RoundUp at our church up north for the last ten years to keep a long row of anemone and shrub roses weed free. It has never harmed the plants as long as I don't get it on them. Even if I get part of a plant due to wind or some other mishap, it has injured but not killed the plant.

Down here I used it to keep the zoysia out of the landscape bed back when we still had the pine straw.

Why not do one more round of that and then start anew pulling them as they emerge if you're tired of spraying?

[Madelaine Amee]

Originally Posted by jimbo2012

No chemical method

here

Jim: I am with you on "no chemicals", but I would be a bit nervous that the flame on this piece of equipment would start a slow burning fire in the mulch. I have been piling on mulch twice a year for probably seven years, so it is pretty deep. Right now the ground is wet from the recent rains, but it won't be long before we are bone dry and into the wild fire season.