Grazon on Whins

Senna

Used Garzon Pro for the first time this evening, have a hilly rocky field beside the house and whins/gorse was going to start taking over unless I did something now. Most had only started to grow this year, small patch started to grow late last year. Few areas where inaccessible but did what I could.
Anyone an idea of how long it should take to see if it's kill them?

_Brian

Grazon will kill them surely.

A bit messy but roundup/Gallup kills them too.

They are usually slow to die but was spraying anwee few myself today and noticed theynare half dead with the drought anyway, expect they will die quick enough.

tanko

Would spraying them in the winter kill them or does it only work in the summertime?

ganmo

I usually spray established furze at the back end of the year and they'd be well dead by spring.

Senna

_Brian wrote: »

Grazon will kill them surely.

A bit messy but roundup/Gallup kills them too.

They are usually slow to die but was spraying anwee few myself today and noticed theynare half dead with the drought anyway, expect they will die quick enough.

Didn't notice any dieing, seems the opposite, they just bloomed in this weather, looked in the field a couple of days ago and couldn't believe the growth in this last two weeks.

Muckit

Patience. 3 weeks before you'll probably see them fade but it will kill them.

orm0nd

slower the kill gives best result

best time from may to early sep.

do not mix stronger than recommended, this only quick kills off the green foliage b4 the chemical has time to reach the root

Senna

orm0nd wrote: »

slower the kill gives best result

best time from may to early sep.

do not mix stronger than recommended, this only quick kills off the green foliage b4 the chemical has time to reach the root

Costs that much I definitely didn't go over the 30ml for 5 litres, but if I'm doing it again I'll go 25ml instead, after reading some other comments.

Bleating Lamb

They say that it is better to wait until the Whins have flowered before spraying them.They are in full bloom at moment but by the end of May it would be better for spraying them.

tanko

Do cattle need to be kept away from whins which have been sprayed?

_Brian

Bleating Lamb wrote: »

They say that it is better to wait until the Whins have flowered before spraying them.They are in full bloom at moment but by the end of May it would be better for spraying them.

"They" told me it's best spray them when they are in full bloom.

Truth is once they are in growing season it will work because it's a growth hormone in most sprays amd that's why islet says on the pack that the weeds need to be actively growing at time of use.

Senna

_Brian wrote: »

"They" told me it's best spray them when they are in full bloom.

Truth is once they are in growing season it will work because it's a growth hormone in most sprays amd that's why islet says on the pack that the weeds need to be actively growing at time of use.

With the sunshine they got all last week, there were really in blume when I sprayed mine.
They're actually very nice looking and colourful, if they didn't grow out of control and take over whatever space they have, they wouldn't be bad for an area that is waste land anyway.

_Brian

Senna wrote: »

With the sunshine they got all last week, there were really in blume when I sprayed mine.
They're actually very nice looking and colourful, if they didn't grow out of control and take over whatever space they have, they wouldn't be bad for an area that is waste land anyway.

They provide great cover for wildlife too, but the department want sterile clean land so that's what happens.

I do laugh a bit with the expectation to remove rushes and whins which provide natural wildlife cove or face penalties, then with the other hand create natural bird cover by seeding land with species that never ever grew naturally in the area.