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Best weedkiller without glyphosate

jt2012adjt2012ad Posts: 5
edited May 2023 in The potting shed
I'm wondering if people could please offer any advice as to the best weedkiller which doesn't contain glyphosate?

Many thanks 
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  • Hostafan1Hostafan1 Posts: 34,889
    "non toxic weedkiller" ? 
    Surely that's an oxymoron?
    Devon.
  • FairygirlFairygirl Posts: 55,117
    I've not bought any for a couple of years, and all new stock was without glyphosate. I never use anything but Resolva, as it was always the most reliable, but I rarely use it anyway.
    The new one has a horrible smell, and doesn't work so quickly, but it's ok if you can't reach weeds to dig them out for any reason. 
    It's a place where beautiful isn't enough of a word....



    I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...
  • KT53KT53 Posts: 9,016
    Thankfully I still have quite a large stock of glyphosate based weedkiller.  After a year and a half of not being able to do anything in the garden, my only effective route is to spray much of it, kill off the weeds which have totally taken over, and start again.
  • Hostafan1Hostafan1 Posts: 34,889
    KT53 said:
    Thankfully I still have quite a large stock of glyphosate based weedkiller.  After a year and a half of not being able to do anything in the garden, my only effective route is to spray much of it, kill off the weeds which have totally taken over, and start again.
    I'm doing exactly the same. 
    I've lifted lots and put in B&Q plastic buckets, so I can treat any bindweed coming up in them, and spray the near empty borders 
    Devon.
  • war garden 572war garden 572 Posts: 664
    10-20% vinegar and dish soap.
    though you need to wear hazmat suit to
    use it in sprayer because it will burn your skin.
     it has no long term effect on planting things there. 
     
  • punkdocpunkdoc Posts: 15,039
    Kills all your worms though.
    How can you lie there and think of England
    When you don't even know who's in the team

    S.Yorkshire/Derbyshire border
  • alfharris8alfharris8 Posts: 513
    Your hands.
  • Hostafan1Hostafan1 Posts: 34,889
    Am I alone in not understanding why Glyphosate is so demonised?
    Devon.
  • alfharris8alfharris8 Posts: 513
    I'm not keen. 
    Haven't there been links made between Glyphosate and Non Hodkins Lymphoms?
  • alfharris8alfharris8 Posts: 513
    Lymphoma. Apologies,  I must stop writing when I can't see properly. 
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