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Don't know what the real name for them are, but have these big, 2+ inch stalk (base), big/wide leaved plants in the yard behind the place. Of course they have about a gazillion burrs about grape+ size. Can someone tell me what will kill them? Been just cutting them off but they just come back stronger. Roundup, gasoline, diesel, used oil???? Want them things gone for good. Cut them and put the stuff on the stalks or put it on the plant?

Thanks for any tips...

Dave
 
look up cocklebur on the net and see if thats what you have.should find info there on how to control it.i dont have too many but around here i simply pull them and burn.
 
dave2, over here on the west side of the pond, we have both burdock and cockle burr. one has kind of fuzzy burrs that pull apart when you remove em, the others are rock hard like a pin cushion. both look like a rhubarb plant. hit em with round up or 2-4d. they are deep rooted, and if you just cut em off, they come right back. corse, you could nuke the site orbit, that 'd get em.
 
(quoted from post at 21:45:53 08/08/12) Don't know what the real name for them are, but have these big, 2+ inch stalk (base), big/wide leaved plants in the yard behind the place. Of course they have about a gazillion burrs about grape+ size. Can someone tell me what will kill them? Been just cutting them off but they just come back stronger. Roundup, gasoline, diesel, used oil???? Want them things gone for good. Cut them and put the stuff on the stalks or put it on the plant?

Thanks for any tips...

Dave
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They are hard to get rid of. I use Roundup but you got to get them before they make burrs(seeds) and keep going after them. They can suck the fertilizer out of the ground before any other plant.
 
I have been spraying a lot of burdock with 2,4-D and
having pretty good luck. Can you buy 2,4-D in
Germany? I like it better than Roundup because it
doesn't kill the grass.
 
For the more woody stuff, like blackberries, Crossbow works better than 2,4D or Roundup. Milestone also works well on lots of broadleaves.

That being said, I have no idea of what you can get in the way of herbicides over there.
 
If what you have are cockleburs they are pretty easy to keep from making seed. Spray with one pint of 24D lo-vol ester per acre before they start to set burrs. It won't kill the plants but they will not set any burrs so no seed for next year. At the 1 pint rate it won't kill your clover either, just curl it up for a few days.
Joe
 
Use anything for braodleaf. Save your grasses.
Maybe this is closer to "Crop talk" than Tractor talk?
 
I just pull the plants up before the cockleburrs form...the plant is easy to identify and what looks like a lot of plants is usually just a few.
Pulling them up works better than cutting them and they"re quite easy to pull up. Just grab the stalk near the base of the plant.
 
(quoted from post at 15:59:13 08/08/12) Use anything for braodleaf. Save your grasses.
Maybe this is closer to "Crop talk" than Tractor talk?
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Did someone starch your drawers??????? Get off the OT kick..... Only one that draws attention is you....
 
(quoted from post at 13:50:43 08/08/12) dave2, over here on the west side of the pond, we have both burdock and cockle burr. one has kind of fuzzy burrs that pull apart when you remove em, the others are rock hard like a pin cushion. both look like a rhubarb plant. hit em with round up or 2-4d. they are deep rooted, and if you just cut em off, they come right back. corse, you could nuke the site orbit, that 'd get em.
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Burdock is what I have...... Going to the ag store to see what they'll give (sell) me in a few....

Thanks.
 
(quoted from post at 14:15:52 08/08/12) I have been spraying a lot of burdock with 2,4-D and
having pretty good luck. Can you buy 2,4-D in
Germany? I like it better than Roundup because it
doesn't kill the grass.
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Just came back from the ag store with what the guy said will kill everything. Have 2 yearlings on the place right now "mowing". When they finish on the weekend, we'll move them and I'll spray everything that isn't grass and see what happens.

Thanks!
 
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