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Bluebells Weedkiller
jackrussell28
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I know this thread will upset some people but here goes...I have a massive problem with bluebells taking over a large border, tried the usual method digging out the bulbs and root to no avail. Was wondering if I chopped the leaves before flowering and then sprayed with weed killer, if this would kill the bulbs?
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If you do a google search you'll see a post on some site where someone mixed a little wallpaper paste in a pot with glyphosate and painted it onto bluebell leaves before flowering. The paste holds the glyph in contact with the leaves and gives it enough time to get through the waxy coating.
I've not tried it myself but the logic is there.
chop the leaves and then spray. What will you be spraying?
In the sticks near Peterborough
Was going to cut the leaves then spray with a glyphosphate, thinking it would be more effective.
glyphosate needs to be absorbed through foliage to work. It's neutralised on soil contact.
Weed killer is not instant. If you must, spray on leaves and wait (maybe a month) until everything is dead. Do not be tempted to clear the dying foliage.
I hope and presume you're referring to the infamous Spanish bluebell and not the English Native !
The bulbs go down close to the earth' s core where they commune with marestail roots.
Hoe them off at ground level and forget about them until next year. Rinse and repeat.
There are much more interesting and productive things to do in your garden
B3
'the Earths core'.........I like it !
Well, perhaps we could get this lot to deal with them from the middle then
https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/5195430/inside-the-weird-world-of-conspiracy-theorists-convinced-the-earth-is-hollow-with-alien-humans-and-nazis-living-inside/
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
Very interrrrresting