NO PLOW, AND ROUNDUP?
 

how long after I use roundup, can I seed a small area? have heard alot of conflickting advice on this,, thanks,

RE: NO PLOW, AND ROUNDUP?
 

Id say two is ideal.
Rake the dead stuff first so you get better seed contact.

RE: NO PLOW, AND ROUNDUP?
 

You can plant immediatly after the application when going with a no-till planting method. The Round-up is a post-emergance herbacide, so it will not harm your new planting.

If you are tilling, the only risk is that the herbacide will not have had a chance to " translocate" throughout the entire plant, reducing the effectiveness of the application, but with no harm to the future plants or seeds. Generally, it takes about 5 days to totally kill a plant...3 days in optimum conditions, 7 at the most. 7 days is the general rule to assure an effective kill, but if you are not tilling, it does not matter because the herbacided will still have a chance to trasnlocate throughout the entire weed due to the fact you are not stopping the process with a tilling.

All that being said.....the bottom line, you still have to have adequate seed to soil contact. Keep that in mind with whatever method you use.

Jeff...U.P. of Michigan

Jeff...U.P. of Michigan.

RE: NO PLOW, AND ROUNDUP?
 

If you can burn the area off you will see a better crop because of sterilziation of seed/spore and the ash will contain some phosphorus...

RE: NO PLOW, AND ROUNDUP?
 

Seven days then try and burn it off if that' s safe.

RE: NO PLOW, AND ROUNDUP?
 

I' m planning on spraying roundup on a recently disked field that was plowed in May. It was WAY too wet to plant all spring - we disked it the best we can last week (July 24) - there is alot of grasses/sod that we did not kill off - even after disking.

I will let 2 weeks go by to allow for germination of residual seeds exposed at disking and still living grasses to " perk up" - then I will spray round-up, wait 3 days - broadcast a clover mix, and roll it in with a cultipacker. The goal is to eradicate established sod/grasses and new emerging reisidual vegetation- at the same time. This should reduce competiton of the clovers with residual sees sources & established grasses.

I' ll post as I go in Late August.