Monday, February 13, 2012

Question about granular weed killers on flowerbeds?

The landscaping just put this on the condo flowerbeds. I have tulips, daffodils, narcissus out there and some roses. I did have bushes that never did well but took those out. I was last summer making rose jelly out of the petals, now I don't know how safe that would be? Also is this going to kill the tulips, etc and harm the roses and did it keep the bushes from growing (golden vicary)? I took the bushes out, because they kept trimming the h*ll out of them.

Question about granular weed killers on flowerbeds?
Granular herbicides are usually specified for broadleaf plants and are definitely no good for roses. The bulbs may be ok. It is very irresponsible of your landscaping to go around throwing weedkillers on your garden.

You might want to check though, there are a lot of slow release fertilisers that come in granular form, they might be throwing this around instead.

If it is a herbicide you will want to get rid of it before it starts to dissolve, get a spade or dustpan or something somilar and scrape the top layer of the soil off, get as much of the weedkiller up as you can.

Any rose products should be fine, a herbicide will kill a plant but most will not make the plant poisonous to consume. Provided they are washed of any surface residue you can do what you like with them.


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