Small weed sprayer

Most of us use a glyphosphate weed control like Roundup or Masters' Kleen-Up as a general weed control. We recommend that you add Surflan (Weed-Impede) as a pre-emergent to help keep the weeds from coming back.

One of the side effects is that often there aren't very many weeds coming up and when we look at our large sprayer in the storage shed we decide to wait a little. Sometimes this means that the weed gets a chance to set seed and start the cycle over again.

An answer I use is the Masters' 1 1/2 qt pump up sprayer. It takes about 1 tablespoon of Kleen-up ( check the directions of the product because some products are at a lighter concentration in particular H and G roundup) plus a little Spray Grip and a little Surflan for a full sprayer.

I did run into a problem at first. As I was spraying I ran into problems with the feeder tube picking up air and that causes fine spray that drifted more that it should. After a couple of times using the sprayer I had a brain sto0rm, I bent the feeder tupe to the front so when I was spraying the grount the feeder tube picked up the last bit of mixed spray.

What a diference.

A side note.

I have a rose ploanted near where I mix the Kleen-up and as I know very well roses are very sensative to glyphosphate. Just the other dqay I noted a shoot coming up with definate glyphosphate damage. I won't know until next spring whether or not I ruined the rose. I am getting some normal growth too, so I am hoping. It does remind us to be carefull with any weed control product and not just when we are spraying it.

Sample damage on rose

a second sample.

If you see this type of damage on other plants vbring in a samploe and let one of our California Certified Nursery Pros diagnose your problem.