In the garden, and RAIN!!!!
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UPDATED: Thursday, December 25, 2025 04:27
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Brenda, I'm sorry your troubles with leg cramps has stricken you again.
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Hey Sigs...
I know you're burning your weeds, but I was wondering if you've ever gotten any use out of that Round Up sprayer. It's great for bug spray too.
I just sprayed a few gallons of it today around the house and the garage. I had left about 2/3rds of a gallon of it that I had in there from last year (I didn't follow the directions and I shouldn't have done that).
Sure enough, about halfway through using that old stuff the firehose went down to a trickle. When I finally opened it up after realizing I wasn't going to get it going again by shaking or banging anything I saw that there was a lot of crap built up around the hose entry and figured I screwed this one up and it was shot now.
But I was able to pull the hose out and clean it off and it works as good as new. Unlike the cheap models, this one has a little yellow plastic filter at the end of the hose and that seemed to be all it needed to keep the crap from clogging up the hose like a lifetime diet of McDonalds does to your arteries.
I'm throwing out all three of my old ones now, and I'm going to open up the second Round Up I bought last year so I have one for the bugs and one for the weed killer. These things should last me years as long as I follow the directions and clean it out by spraying straight water through them when I'm done.
Do Right, Be Right. :)
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Signy
I've been considering native perennial clovers (trifolium) because I don't know if annuals reseed themselves or not. Most of these are native to the central valley so I wonder how they'd do here. Also, there's a question of getting seeds. Anyway, here are some early bloomers with subspecies (subspecies very generally seem to have the same bloom period) listed.
https://calphotos.berkeley.edu/imgs/512x768/0000_0000/0115/2052.jpeg
Trifolium longipes (march thru may)
ssp. atrorubens
https://calphotos.berkeley.edu/imgs/512x768/0000_0000/0210/0546.jpeg
ssp. hansenii
https://calphotos.berkeley.edu/imgs/128x192/0000_0000/1202/0133.jpeg
ssp. shastense
https://calphotos.berkeley.edu/imgs/512x768/0000_0000/0404/0978.jpeg
Trifolium variegatum (march thru july)
https://calphotos.berkeley.edu/imgs/512x768/0000_0000/1112/1994.jpeg
var. major
And this I'd plant even though it blooms during the summer because it's so darn pretty!
Trifolium wormskioldii
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Quote:Oh yeah, I posted earlier but with all the Covid-stuff I guess you missed it.
Originally posted by 6IXSTRINGJACK:
Hey Sigs...
I know you're burning your weeds, but I was wondering if you've ever gotten any use out of that Round Up sprayer. It's great for bug spray too.
I just sprayed a few gallons of it today around the house and the garage. I had left about 2/3rds of a gallon of it that I had in there from last year (I didn't follow the directions and I shouldn't have done that).
Sure enough, about halfway through using that old stuff the firehose went down to a trickle. When I finally opened it up after realizing I wasn't going to get it going again by shaking or banging anything I saw that there was a lot of crap built up around the hose entry and figured I screwed this one up and it was shot now.
But I was able to pull the hose out and clean it off and it works as good as new. Unlike the cheap models, this one has a little yellow plastic filter at the end of the hose and that seemed to be all it needed to keep the crap from clogging up the hose like a lifetime diet of McDonalds does to your arteries.
I'm throwing out all three of my old ones now, and I'm going to open up the second Round Up I bought last year so I have one for the bugs and one for the weed killer. These things should last me years as long as I follow the directions and clean it out by spraying straight water through them when I'm done.
Do Right, Be Right. :)
I have been using that concentrated glyphosate that you recommended. And I did have a Roundup sprayer already ... it works sweet!!!... but I didn't want to mix up glyphosate in it and accidently kill plant later when I used it for something else.
Still, the weeds around here being what they are ...
I find that the torch works more immediately but the glyphsate is more permanent, I get a lot more resprouting wth the torch. So I torch twice and spray once. The spray is really good to get close to plants the I want to keep, if I get too close with the torch it singes them. Happy with the way both are working together, it really really reduces the amount of weed-pulling.
But there is ONE weed, I don't know what it is, I mentioned this to KIKI: I torched them brutally, watched the leaves and stems turn to ash all the way to the ground. They resprouted! So I drenched them with glyphosate and it left them totally unfazed.
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If we did not MAKE men poor - William Blake
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Oh yeah - the buds on my hollyleaf and Catalina Island cherry trees are just starting to break into bloom, so they'll make a nice transition from the oxalis to the privet.
cherry
privet
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Quote:
Originally posted by 1KIKI:
Brenda, I'm sorry your troubles with leg cramps has stricken you again.
At least they aren't as bad or as often as when I was living at the crappy place. Still very frustrating.
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Originally posted by SIGNYM:Quote:Oh yeah, I posted earlier but with all the Covid-stuff I guess you missed it.
Originally posted by 6IXSTRINGJACK:
Hey Sigs...
I know you're burning your weeds, but I was wondering if you've ever gotten any use out of that Round Up sprayer. It's great for bug spray too.
I just sprayed a few gallons of it today around the house and the garage. I had left about 2/3rds of a gallon of it that I had in there from last year (I didn't follow the directions and I shouldn't have done that).
Sure enough, about halfway through using that old stuff the firehose went down to a trickle. When I finally opened it up after realizing I wasn't going to get it going again by shaking or banging anything I saw that there was a lot of crap built up around the hose entry and figured I screwed this one up and it was shot now.
But I was able to pull the hose out and clean it off and it works as good as new. Unlike the cheap models, this one has a little yellow plastic filter at the end of the hose and that seemed to be all it needed to keep the crap from clogging up the hose like a lifetime diet of McDonalds does to your arteries.
I'm throwing out all three of my old ones now, and I'm going to open up the second Round Up I bought last year so I have one for the bugs and one for the weed killer. These things should last me years as long as I follow the directions and clean it out by spraying straight water through them when I'm done.
Do Right, Be Right. :)
I have been using that concentrated glyphosate that you recommended. And I did have a Roundup sprayer already ... it works sweet!!!... but I didn't want to mix up glyphosate in it and accidently kill plant later when I used it for something else.
Still, the weeds around here being what they are ...
I find that the torch works more immediately but the glyphsate is more permanent, I get a lot more resprouting wth the torch. So I torch twice and spray once. The spray is really good to get close to plants the I want to keep, if I get too close with the torch it singes them. Happy with the way both are working together, it really really reduces the amount of weed-pulling.
But there is ONE weed, I don't know what it is, I mentioned this to KIKI: I torched them brutally, watched the leaves and stems turn to ash all the way to the ground. They resprouted! So I drenched them with glyphosate and it left them totally unfazed.
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Pity would be no more,
If we did not MAKE men poor - William Blake
#WEARAMASK
Nice. Do you have the model of Round Up sprayer that I sent you a while back or one of the ones that you get with a pre-mixed solution? I had one of those and I'm going to pitch it after using this one for two seasons. Its the best sprayer I've ever used.
I'm going to be using that glyphosate myself, probably tomorrow.
How much was that torch?
Do Right, Be Right. :)
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The rain is back.
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Quote:Over here it's hot and sunny. Friday is predicted to be almost 100F!
Originally posted by Brenda:
The rain is back.
Too hot!
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Quote:Not sure if it's the exact same, but very similar.
SIX: Nice. Do you have the model of Round Up sprayer that I sent you a while back or one of the ones that you get with a pre-mixed solution? I had one of those and I'm going to pitch it after using this one for two seasons. Its the best sprayer I've ever used.
I'm going to be using that glyphosate myself, probably tomorrow.
How much was that torch?
Torch was pretty expensive .. I got the 100,000 BTU model but with the "trigger grip" that lets you go from "pilot" to "flame jet". I wouldn't get anything bigger, but the trigger grip is really handy. Don't recall the exact price, but over $100. I'm sure you can find cheaper! We have a hand truck and some bungee cords that let me trail the propane after me.
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If we did not MAKE men poor - William Blake
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