Spray for gorse

[Landrover]

Any recommendations for gorse spray, have used forefront in the past with great success, but can't use in this situation, it's to apply with a sprayer not a knapsack btw. Something cheap ideally!

 

[Agrivator]

Can you still get Assulox?

 

[deleted user 837354]

I'd just use pas tor, anything with plenty of triclopyr in it.

 

[crofteress]

Thrust works for gorse

 

[spin cycle]

poor gorse...it's so lovely....wish I had some

 

[Jasper]

In New Zealand I think they spray with salt water Kiwi Pete would be the man to ask

 

[Happy]

Blaster Pro for knapsack.
Pivotal crop sprayer.

 

[BAF]

Grazon is good for gorse. Or as long as its not in a fence line a Liberal splash of whoosh juice and a match makes it go away.

 

[neilo]

I've cleared it with Thistlex, where I've been spraying patches of regrowth after topping hard.

 

[Happy]

I've cleared it with Thistlex, where I've been spraying patches of regrowth after topping hard.

That’s the one I used not Pivotal as I said earlier.
Knew one of them had about as much Triclopyr in it as Grazon for using through boom sprayer rather than knapsack.

 

[BAF]

That’s the one I used not Pivotal as I said earlier.
Knew one of them had about as much Triclopyr in it as Grazon for using through boom sprayer rather than knapsack.

Hold your breath and you'll be fine

 

[Kiwi Pete]

In New Zealand I think they spray with salt water Kiwi Pete would be the man to ask

Nah. Only me as far as I know, and that was just an experiment. I like mythbusting farming fallacies!

Use metsulfuron and kill the shitting stuff slowly and surely, not sure about usage in the UK but it's probably as cost effective as anything here.

Beats spraying it twice with expensive stuff to be rid for the same length of time

 

[JD-Kid]

Nah. Only me as far as I know, and that was just an experiment. I like mythbusting farming fallacies!

Use metsulfuron and kill the shitting stuff slowly and surely, not sure about usage in the UK but it's probably as cost effective as anything here.

Beats spraying it twice with expensive stuff to be rid for the same length of time

used to use a lot of metsulfuron but went to tordon with some add ons got sick of spraying the same plants year after year with met
in saying that now adding some other chemical in with tordon as not getting good kills

 

[Kiwi Pete]

used to use a lot of metsulfuron but went to tordon with some add ons got sick of spraying the same plants year after year with met
in saying that now adding some other chemical in with tordon as not getting good kills

Yes it makes me wonder if almost killing gorse has some of it shifting toward a resistance problem.

Seems to be getting harder to properly kill it which is why I gave the acetic acid/salt/hot water a go, will be a harder knock to the biome than selective herbicides but it smoked the gorse.

If I didn't torch it I'd say it'd only need a spray every 10 years but would follow it up with met. and plenty of surfactant I think it's the ticket for young sappy gorse

 

[ladycrofter]

I as rold torching it makes it come back, some sort of fire response?

 

[Socksitis]

I as rold torching it makes it come back, some sort of fire response?

Interesting you say that as we were saying where we have swaled western gorse, it does seem to tiller out and come back stronger if it is done when the gorse is at a certain height.

 

[mar]

I have used round up on it and it seems to kill it, it seems to work best when they are small around six inches tall, as it is easier to get everything a covering of spray. I have done ones that were 5 foot tall but you were inclined to miss bits and that part would keep growing, plus it took more spray to do them. You would probably be better cutting them and spraying the regrowth. If you pull them with a digger you will still have regrowth plus a bigger patch to cover when they do grow back.