Remember to read the label carefully. As a friend in Houston once said to me in his unique Texas accent, "You caint bring um futher than dead" Also, the product works on active foliage only when temperatures are above 70 degrees. Narad (Richard Eggenberger) On 2, Oct 2009, at 4:58 PM, Adam Fikso wrote: > Thanks everyone . Exactly the kind of information I'd hoped for. I'm > feeling quite confident about using it as I'd planned--Small spray > bottle. > ,, on a windless or low drift day, confined to the bulb areas.. And > the > paint brush idea will work wonders on the endless European buckthorn > that > keeps turning up wherever it can find a foothold. Kind regards. > > > > > > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: <Blee811@aol.com> > To: <pbs@lists.ibiblio.org> > Sent: Friday, October 02, 2009 3:24 PM > Subject: Re: [pbs] Use of Roundup > > >> >> In a message dated 10/2/2009 2:45:44 PM Eastern Daylight Time, >> khixson@nu-world.com writes: >> >> I know people who use a paintbrush to apply Roundup to the >> stems or root ends of woody shrubs/vines. Apparently it does work, >> even though it isn't being applied to foliage. >> >> >> kMy land slopes down into the woods on three sides and those >> hillsides >> were >> covered in honeysuckle bushes when we first moved here. Our >> technique was >> to cut them off close to the ground with the chainsaw and then paint >> full-strength Round-Up on the cut stems with a paintbrush. There >> is very >> little >> honeysuckle left now. >> Bill Lee >> _______________________________________________ >> pbs mailing list >> pbs@lists.ibiblio.org >> http://pacificbulbsociety.org/list.php >> http://pacificbulbsociety.org/pbswiki/ > > _______________________________________________ > pbs mailing list > pbs@lists.ibiblio.org > http://pacificbulbsociety.org/list.php > http://pacificbulbsociety.org/pbswiki/