Weed Killer possibility?

[loneranger]

I put up a screen house inmy yard last summer with a plastic tarp as the floor. We took it down about mid-summer, the grass/weeds, under the tarp were totally dead. I mean totally, after a couple weeks of the tarp being down. It took quite a few weeks for any weeds to come back even a little. It got me to thinking. this would be a good way to kill weeds for a food plot. Smother them.Might be a new food plot prep product. Large tarps, with weights sown into the edges to keep them down. Not practical maybe for acres, but for smaller spots, maybe?

 

[LoessHillsArcher]

That's why our tent got thrown on the garage sale years ago, we'd get lazy and not bother to take it down for a while which didn't make for a pretty picture once we did take it down.

 

[muddy]

I'm sure there's a professional sports team somewhere that is willing to unload a stadium sized tarp.

Problem being you need a couple dozen guys to put it down.

Maybe someone could get OneCam or LimbChicken to design a ginormous Iowawhitetail football stadium sized tarp.

 

[bjkpharmd]

Plastic is used for weed control in quite a few applications but usually in rows with some sort of raised bed former attachment pulled by a tractor.

A tarp would probably work but unless you absolutely need an organic deer plot- I'd use round-up. Even if you were using it just in smaller spots- a small hand sprayer with RU is going to be less mess and dicking around than weighting down a tarp.

 

[LoessHillsArcher]

Just thought of this but how about plastic around new tree plantings? Is that a common practice or just too much work for a large scale planting?

 

[dbltree]

They use plastic or fabric all the time around trees and row crops...works great! /forum/images/%%GRAEMLIN_URL%%/smile.gif

Plastic Mulch Layers & Lifter

Using Weed Barriers

Shaw Fabrics

Fabric Mulch for Tree Planting

 

[LoessHillsArcher]

That is exactly what I was thinking! Hopefully get a first hand experience soon doing that!