Hoyt Ag said:
Any recomendations on salt solution? I have a ton of fenceline I use roundup on and am always looking for a cheaper solution.
Hoyt,
I experimented with using salt and was very disappointed with the results.
You always hear how the Romans would salt their enemies fields and blah, blah, blah. If that really worked, they must have used one helluva lot of salt.
After spraying fully saturated salt solutions and getting marginal results at best, I tested a few areas by pouring salt directly on the ground. Frankly, it wasn't worth the effort.
Like rwv2055 mentioned, Imazapyr is probably your most effective herbicide for this application. I get between 6 and 10 months of control with a single application of it.
As chemicals go, it's fairly pricey, but you use it in very low concentrations. It is cheaper, though, because it lasts much longer than what you're using now.
I've got large requirements for 'bare ground' control, and so I mix my own, but you can find it already mixed with Glyphosate (Roundup) in the product RM43, which is available at all the big box stores.
