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- Scotland
Would it be possible to make your own? Its expensive for being a salt brine.
Presumable there's more to it than dissolving table salt in water?
Presumable there's more to it than dissolving table salt in water?
Brewing Saltex.
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- the brecks norfolk
Yes I mixed my own last year for an experiment to kill weeds in beet.
I bought a ton of sea salt from a company I found via this forum, I can't remember the name but can find out. I filled the sprayer and then just bucketed in the salt to the desired ratio.
A side note it didn't kill fathen but it did do a job on amaranth, nettle and a few others but when I lifted that field they were a good 1% more sugar which ties In with anicdotal evidence of carrots treated with salt being sweeter
I bought a ton of sea salt from a company I found via this forum, I can't remember the name but can find out. I filled the sprayer and then just bucketed in the salt to the desired ratio.
A side note it didn't kill fathen but it did do a job on amaranth, nettle and a few others but when I lifted that field they were a good 1% more sugar which ties In with anicdotal evidence of carrots treated with salt being sweeter
- Location
- Scotland
Yes I mixed my own last year for an experiment to kill weeds in beet.
I bought a ton of sea salt from a company I found via this forum, I can't remember the name but can find out. I filled the sprayer and then just bucketed in the salt to the desired ratio.
A side note it didn't kill fathen but it did do a job on amaranth, nettle and a few others but when I lifted that field they were a good 1% more sugar which ties In with anicdotal evidence of carrots treated with salt being sweeter
The salt didnt clog the sprayer filters before it had dissolved?
- Location
- the brecks norfolk
No only once when I was a bit to keen pouring it in the top.
How come you didn’t tell us this before?Yes I mixed my own last year for an experiment to kill weeds in beet.
I bought a ton of sea salt from a company I found via this forum, I can't remember the name but can find out. I filled the sprayer and then just bucketed in the salt to the desired ratio.
A side note it didn't kill fathen but it did do a job on amaranth, nettle and a few others but when I lifted that field they were a good 1% more sugar which ties In with anicdotal evidence of carrots treated with salt being sweeter
- Location
- the brecks norfolk
I'm prett sure I did at the time in one of the threads
Lots of talk no action
like me!!!
- Location
- the brecks norfolk
You speak for yourself!!! I'm sure my exploits are all documented on here somewhere.Lots of talk no action
Hindsight
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- Location
- Lincolnshire
Yes I mixed my own last year for an experiment to kill weeds in beet.
I bought a ton of sea salt from a company I found via this forum, I can't remember the name but can find out. I filled the sprayer and then just bucketed in the salt to the desired ratio.
A side note it didn't kill fathen but it did do a job on amaranth, nettle and a few others but when I lifted that field they were a good 1% more sugar which ties In with anicdotal evidence of carrots treated with salt being sweeter
Did you add non ionic wetter? As that was included in the original dendritic salt mixture from 1980s.
Daniel
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- Location
- Mildenhall, Suffolk
Have you done it again this year?Yes I mixed my own last year for an experiment to kill weeds in beet.
I bought a ton of sea salt from a company I found via this forum, I can't remember the name but can find out. I filled the sprayer and then just bucketed in the salt to the desired ratio.
A side note it didn't kill fathen but it did do a job on amaranth, nettle and a few others but when I lifted that field they were a good 1% more sugar which ties In with anicdotal evidence of carrots treated with salt being sweeter
- Location
- the brecks norfolk
- Location
- the brecks norfolk
No, although I do have some salt in stock still so could do a tramline or two and get the factory to test some test digs.
Hindsight
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- Location
- Lincolnshire
No, although I do have some salt in stock still so could do a tramline or two and get the factory to test some test digs.
From Mike May. Was the Beet herbicide man at Morley.
Treatment is usually 1100 litres/ha of saturated salt solution plus 0.1% non-ionic wetter. Most modern farms are not set up to spray at such high volumes, but it will work equally well when applied as two passes of 550litres/ha.
To obtain a saturated solution, 310kg of salt should be dissolved in each 1100litres of spray water. However salt is hard to mix and this concentration can be difficult to achieve in the farmyard.
Salty solution - but go carefully - Farmers Weekly
21 February 1997 Salty solution - but go carefullySalt can be a useful herbicide in sugar beet crops. But getting the best results from this material
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