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HiI have noticed people mentoining Round Up - can someone please tell me what it is and why some people are very negative about its use?I assume its a weedkiller, are there any nicer weedkillers available? ThanksKev
Round UpI do not have a problem with using it, if you follow the instructions to the letter. Far better than a sheet of plastic or an old carpet leeching its poisons into the ground.
One last point on Roundup because I have used it and might have to again in future.Bitter experience: don't use water from the dipping tank or rain-butt, they will contain the very same soil bacteria that will stop it working AT ALL . The same thing goes for hoses or containers that have carried anything except tapwater. You can argue whether soil bacteria make it safe - but they definitely make it useless.NB. if I wanted a weedkiller for anywhere well separated from wanted plants (like in the pictures above) I'd definitely go for Ammonium SulphAMate rather than a molecule as complex and unpredictable as Glyphosate. On the other hand if that's a sports' field I wouldn't care - sportsmen are hardly an endangered species Cheers.
So would a shot of bleach (sodium hypochlorite) sort that out ?