How to assassinate weed within Blue Rug Juniper? I have a huge area covered near junipers but without any landscape...
I have a huge area covered near junipers but without any landscape cloth underneath. I use Preen In the spring but still get some weed. Is there any type of poison that I could spray minus killing the junipers.
Darby have the right idea..... cloth and chunky yap mulch does a great job.... mine's be in the ground something like 11 years with cloth and big yap and they've spread and covered all and are reasonably happy..... the few weed that do sprout are easily pulled..... no entail for any kind of poisons at adjectives.... altho... I do like the Preen opinion...under for you, over for me....using the one near fertilizer would be a boost for the soil, too, on my old bed...you may not inevitability that......
If the junipers are not on a slope, or if there is no close by lawn or bed to assassinate, you could do this:
1. weed all the weed from under the junipers. Especially anything stroke rooted like dandeloin or thistle, and things roughly to flower or go to pip
2. (optional) If you must use a poison, buy some caceron (comes granular) and put it on the ground under your junipers. Caceron is a hurdle and produces a gas which will keep seedling from emerging through the soil surface, but it can only be used beneath WOODY plants like your junipers, trees, woody shrubs. The problem next to caceron is that with rainfall and watering, some of it leaches out as "liquid" and if it runs downhill, could affect things you don't want it to.
3. buy some bark mulch and put it beneath the junipers 1 1/2 to 2" deep. This will relieve a lot. Junipers love bitter soil, and the bark mulch will break down and produce acidic soil. The combination of mulch (breaking down and making any weed easier to pull) and the anti-emergent should do the trick. Be aware, however, that weed seeds come from the sky too (birds, wind). they will grow despite your hard work with the caceron. And some (like thistle) you basically have to keep hold of at it until you weaken their substantial underground root systems.
If you don't want to do the caceron, only just try to keep that nouns mulched every 3 years or whenever you see the weed problem increasing.
good for you for NOT using weed cloth! it smothers the soil and make a lot of problems within the long term.
Answers: Nope, anything the herbicide touch, it kills. Pull the weed by hand, put down Preen, put down landscape cloth and then incorporate some nice mulch. Use a Garden Weasel or hoe to loosen the weeds and next pull them up. Weeds are easier to verbs when the ground is a bit moist.