Round-up on Garden

[53orbigger]

I haven't planted my vegetable garden yet this year and it is currently overgrown with weeds. If I use round-up to kill the weeds how long do I have to wait to till and plant it?

Thanks

[Lund79]

Good question, I am in the same predicament.

[smurfy]

I heard anything from a day or 2, to up to 10 days. from what I know it works by taking it in on the leaves of the plant. needs about an hour to work.

hopefully someone a whole lot more experienced with roundup speaks up, I am also interested in hearing expert advice.!!!!

[Dotch]

Essentially you really don't need to wait other than to give it a day or so to allow the annual weeds to take up the product. With perennial weeds such as Canada thistle, dandelions or quackgrass, waiting 3 days or so given the cool, cloudy weather may be beneficial. I am in the same boat, pun intended. There was still water standing on the edge of the main garden this morning. I have planted nothing.

I plan on scorching the garden off however and planting things that are adapted to the season in order to salvage something, also to satisfy my need to be growing something. I may no-till some of it as I've done in the past with varying degrees of success.

[flipper]

Depending on when things turn around, I am thinking most of the traditional garden fare should have time to ripen. I am way behind on my planting as well. We should have up to the middle of June for most things I am thinking.

I use roundup in the garden when necessary. I think it is one of the safest herbicides out there, at least I hope so.

Being surrounded by frustrated farmers I try not to start any conversations complaining about my garden.

[Dotch]

A wise idea flipper. It's like walking on eggshells around here.

Scratched the onions, carrots and spuds. My wife works at a place that grows that stuff. I should still be able to do the string beans, tomatoes, cukes, sweet corn, gourds, early melons. May be pushing it on the late melons and squash pretty quick if it doesn't start to warm up and dry out. Oh well the seed keeps pretty well if it doesn't get planted generally. I like planting bee and hummingbird crops (sunflowers, 4 o'clocks, etc.) so they may find a place in the mix. Some of the early spring garden will be converted to a late summer planting, things like radishes, snap peas and lettuce. Some of the spring type radishes were ginormous when grown in the fall last season.

[CANOPY SAM]

In past years I've waited till the end of the second week in June to plant my last staggered planting of sweet corn and had no problem getting completely mature, ripe corn cobs before the first frost.

I'd wager you could still even plant carrots and get decent production. The trick to getting good carrot germination is to seed really shallow, maybe 1/4 - 1/8 inch of fine soil over your seed, then keep it damp till everything germinates. Once up, keep them all lightly watered till they really show strong growth. They'll do just fine. I've forced germination with carrots in less than 4 days...seed that would normally take 20 days to germinate.

It's not too late guys. I live in a small section of zone 3 in the northwest corner of Minnesota and I rarely plant any garden until Memorial Day or after. We still had frost warnings up here just two nights ago, and I've seen frost in our river bottom land as late as the second week of June.

Go ahead and plant everything. Keep the seed moist (which shouldn't be hard right now ) and get em' to germinate quick, and everything will be ready by the first week in Sept.

[pushbutton]

With dedicated time off over memorial day weekend, I essentially was forced to go for the no till. Most things have germinated except for carrots, melons, some herbs, and very sporadic spinach. Peppers expectingly look pretty rough with the cool nights and wet soil, but the maters and other nightshades are starting to take off. We'll see what happens from here on out with the really compacted soil. With all this rain, I don't even know if it would have made much difference......

[53orbigger]

Thanks guys. I was hoping to get the round-up on last night, but it rained yet again, so I think I am just going to till the weeds under and spend the rest of the summer weeding the garden. Assuming summer ever gets here!

[harvey lee]

Round up is a contact spray. It will kill what it gets on.

I believe it has to be on the plant 2 hours before it rains or it will have very little effect.

As far as residual on the ground, I would say you are very safe after 48 hours.

[sticknstring]

Till just the rows you'll be planting. Get the garden in. And then spray gly over the entire thing. Put some lawn clippings between rows and you're done.

[harvey lee]

I never have to hoe 1 weed all summer in the garden. I put grass clipping around the entire garden except where my plants are.

Seems to also hold the moisture in the ground much longer on those hot days also.