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vietdood
07-27-2009, 11:26 PM
Went to home depot to look for some weed killing products but they only had "eco-friendly" stuff in small bottles which don't work. I'm looking to kill my entire yard with flame thrower results in chemical form. Anyone have any recommendations?

BlackArcher101
07-27-2009, 11:28 PM
Why would you kill your whole yard?

vietdood
07-27-2009, 11:34 PM
So I don't need to cut it till I concrete the entire front and back next year

three.eighteen.
07-27-2009, 11:35 PM
killex should destroy your entire lawn for a good year or so

Ichigo
07-27-2009, 11:40 PM
gasoline? nothing lives after that.

cocoabrova
07-27-2009, 11:46 PM
A RONA employee was telling me something about some new legislation that banned all the previous weed killers everyone was selling (the good shiz like Scott's and Killex) but will be getting new enviro-friendly product in the next few months. Of course by that time, old man winter will be around the corner and the frost will kill it all anyways.......

vietdood
07-28-2009, 12:03 AM
Originally posted by cocoabrova
A RONA employee was telling me something about some new legislation that banned all the previous weed killers everyone was selling (the good shiz like Scott's and Killex) but will be getting new enviro-friendly product in the next few months. Of course by that time, old man winter will be around the corner and the frost will kill it all anyways.......

Scott's was exactly what I was looking for but at home depot all I found was that eco-stuff. The employee there said it didn't work at all. Canadian Tire has the product on their website so I'll try them tomorrow to see if they have anything.

SOAB
07-28-2009, 12:09 AM
they still sell that killex stuff at Totem.

kenny
07-28-2009, 12:28 AM
i recently did this to a section of my yard. I used the concentrated version of roundup i bought at canadian tire.

Everything it comes into contact with dies.

spikerS
07-28-2009, 12:44 AM
it is just calgary that has this bylaw, travel outside the city limits to cochrane or airdrie and you should be able to pick up what you want there.

blitz
07-28-2009, 07:33 AM
Originally posted by spikers
it is just calgary that has this bylaw, travel outside the city limits to cochrane or airdrie and you should be able to pick up what you want there.

Yup, except last time I went looking in Airdrie they were completely sold out of every weed killing product. I guess they get a lot of Calgary business now.

cancer man
07-28-2009, 09:50 AM
Try the UFA i believe they still carry it for the farmers.

ExtraSlow
07-28-2009, 10:11 AM
If you want flamethrwoer results, buy a flamethrower.

Lee Valley - Giant Weed Torch (http://www.leevalley.com/garden/page.aspx?c=1&p=47306&cat=2,2300,44822)
This thing is awesome, and better for the environment than the chemicals, if you care.

redline
07-28-2009, 10:11 AM
Canadian tire and Sunnyside has killex and roundup.

badatusrnames
07-28-2009, 10:15 AM
Hydrochloric acid?

urban.one
07-28-2009, 10:29 AM
Youre going to pave your entire yard? WTF


Originally posted by vietdood
So I don't need to cut it till I concrete the entire front and back next year

hampstor
07-28-2009, 10:53 AM
That's a shitload of weed killer you're going to be spraying over and over and over again... depending on how big and what kind of weeds you have, you may simply end up with a yard full of dead weeds that still have to be removed. Have you considered taking a bobcat, using a flat bucket and scraping it?

and like ^^ is wondering, why are you going to do your entire yard in concrete? Have you looked into the bylaws regarding this?

Strider
07-28-2009, 12:58 PM
Round Up.

masoncgy
07-28-2009, 02:08 PM
You're probably better off paying a bobcat to remove all of the vegetation from your rear lot.

Killex & all that stuff is temporary... weeds do grow back eventually. You have to take a pretty heavy handed approach, like completely saturating the soil with heavy salts so that nothing grows in it again... lol.

You're better off getting it scraped off and hauled away.

Supa Dexta
07-28-2009, 03:17 PM
Yup roundup is what you need. We use a lot of it for electric fences, to keep the grass from growing up and dragging the power down on it. Takes a few days to see results. It's also what we use on large scales to kill entire fields before ploughing.

95golf
07-28-2009, 07:34 PM
Went to canadian tire and totem on edmonton trail and they dont have roundup/killex; anywhere else i should check?

JC522
07-28-2009, 07:41 PM
canadian tire in beacon hill has it apparently, checked their website. Just bought the propane torch at princess auto for 60$ on sale. Works great aside from all the neighbours staring as they drive by.

BrknFngrs
07-28-2009, 07:42 PM
Bylaws aside; have you looked into what it costs to put down concrete? Something like a garage pad is $6-10,000; I can't imagine what it would cost to do a complete front and back yard.

vietdood
07-29-2009, 11:32 AM
Went to a couple canadian tires and they're all sold out of roundup but still have ecofriendly crap in stock. Going to check beacon hill today to see if they have any.

urban.one
07-29-2009, 11:44 AM
Youd also have to address grading and drainage issues. Thats why the bobcat is a good idea. your gonna have to remove some dirt anyways so why bother killing the grass first.


Originally posted by BrknFngrs
Bylaws aside; have you looked into what it costs to put down concrete? Something like a garage pad is $6-10,000; I can't imagine what it would cost to do a complete front and back yard.

kenny
07-30-2009, 02:45 AM
The gradient of death.

I sprayed Round Up standing at the left of this picture towards the house and moved across. That was 4 days ago :) Pretty powerful stuff, I sprayed directly at the area that is yellow and the mist created the partial death zone in the middle.

BlackArcher101
07-30-2009, 04:01 AM
Ah round up... the stuff I decided to spray through the fence when I was young. A few days later and there were yellow streaks that fanned out from each gap of the fenceboards on the neighbours grass. Pretty easy to tell who did it, haha.

lelalong
07-30-2009, 09:08 AM
Find an army of puppies. Girl puppy pee will kill your yard. We got another puppy in winter so by spring our lawn looked terrible. We had to build a dog run to keep the lawn from looking ghetto.

Green gate still sells the effective stuff.

dirtsniffer
08-09-2009, 01:07 AM
i can help you with the strong weed.. but those grass killing chemicals are beyond me :poosie:

JC522
08-09-2009, 01:30 AM
I've done everything to my yard to prep it for sod, I've used a torch to kill the weeds in the front, Weedwacker for the backyard, round up for the backyard. They all work but the only thing that they don't do is remove the weeds, now I've got a yard full of dead weeds sticking out of the ground

Kritafo
08-09-2009, 09:31 AM
for anyone still looking for roundup. UFA has the big ready to use size. I think it was around $22.00.

rinny
08-09-2009, 11:30 AM
Here's a tip for all:

Spray weeds just after first frost in Sept/Oct whenever that may be. While the weeds start dying they start sucking up the spray and come summer, you'll be relatively weed free, minus the odd one here and there.

Beats the heck out of doing it all the time in spring/summer.

Cooked Rice
08-09-2009, 01:02 PM
Originally posted by Kritafo
for anyone still looking for roundup. UFA has the big ready to use size. I think it was around $22.00.

:werd:

Hit up agriculture type stores, they have all the weed killers you need in all sorts of sizes.

JC522
08-09-2009, 01:14 PM
I went to country hills canadian tire (by the old sivercity theater) they have roundup and killex there

old&slow
08-09-2009, 01:15 PM
If you ever see a thing called "Par3", buy it! Best I ever used for weeds!!