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Guys I have a hole that is all grown up in some kind of water vine...looks like there is no decent weeds of any kind w/ seeds...most about head high. Would you go ahead and board it up some and hope that crap dies and falls over? I put about a foot and half's worth in today. Ya'll think that will kill it back?

spray it with round up and come back with some millet



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SFDdelta1 wrote:spray it with round up and come back with some millet



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OK, this is three or four acres, thick as dog hair, and over my head...water weeds in about six inches of water. If I round up it it's still gonna be over my head and thick but dead. So what I do...mow it when it's dead then plant millet in October.....guys it's gotta be too late for planting millet by the time it dies isn't it? I'm not being a smartass...I really don't know.

Here's a thought. You could drop the water to the mud flat stage, fly in some millet as soon as you get the water down and then fly on some herbicide before the millet sprouts to kill the existing vegetation. Or just spray the weeds then fly the millet after that. Millet should fall through the existing weeds, sprout within days of hitting the wet mud and the other weeds will die and the millet will come through it. If you do it soon the millet should make before frost.

Wingman, you think the millet would sprout in all that shade below the broadleaf water plants?

pm DanP or Chevy01234 on here they will take care of you. Jody is a damn good person and a friend of mine I know he will do you right. If it was me I would hit it with Reward or glyphosate first and then weigh my options from there

Does your mystery weed have long, slender leaves, a thin stalk with swollen places up and down it and pink flowers? If so, that's one of the annual smartweeds and is excellent duck food.

If it's got the white flowers, it's one of the less desirable smartweed species.

Can you take a picture of the plant? Like wingman said it could be a good or bad smartweed. We are about to spray a good bit of the stuff, a hot tank mix of glyphosate and 2,4-D will burn it down quick and kill it.

Flooding it will not kill it. Also millet will still head before the first frost due to you can control the water and also have it planted in a mud flat. Be sure to plant Japanese Millet contrary to what others say in your environment described brown top will not ever head.

Thanks guys. It's a broad leaf plant w/leaves about like a quarter...vine like. I appreciate all the responses.

What I would've recommended before you put the water on it would be to bushhog and deep disk the whole thing this fall between Aug. 15 - Sept. 15. That would knock all the vines back to a manageable height. You'd have to ask the chemical guys what would be the best thing to spray for redvines, morning glory, and trumpet creeper. You can really do some damage to those vines in th fall if you can spray them when they're just a couple inches tall and start pulling nutrients back into their roots before the frost. Then have a late spring, early summer draw down. I'd pull a board every couple of weeks starting around May 1st of next year. This recomendation would mean that this year would probably be a bust, but it sounds like if you ever want this to be a productive moist soil unit again you're going to have to start over from scratch at some point to get it manageable.