Thread: Wandering jew

Hi there, just wandering if all dogs are allergic to wandering jew? Just bought a new place and am thinking of fencing it off, it backs onto a open drainage channel and down on the lowest bank is a heap of wandering jew, I've been searching and reading up on it and it seems tricky to get rid of, plus every time the channel floods I'm guessing I'll get afresh batch of it from upstream.

Cheers

it's a prick

Wandering Jew? Can you still call it that. The pc version is transient Israeli surely. Yes tis a prick to control but the stuff for old mans beard also does the business on it too..

Originally Posted by Marty Henry

Wandering Jew? Can you still call it that. The pc version is transient Israeli surely. Yes tis a prick to control but the stuff for old mans beard also does the business on it too..

Whats the name of the stuff? I have heaps growing under my deck and want to get rid of it.

From memory it's correct name is tradescantia

A mixture of roundup and banvine smokes it

Originally Posted by 7mmsaum

A mixture of roundup and banvine smokes it

Don't know if you can say wondering Jew and smokes it in the same sentence

yep really bad for dogs there is a spray its called woody wood killer bad for humans and dogs but it kills wandering jew and every thing else it touches you get it from mitre 10

Originally Posted by sometimes

yep really bad for dogs there is a spray its called woody wood killer bad for humans and dogs but it kills wandering jew and every thing else it touches you get it from mitre 10

Woody weedkiller has Banvine in it

Its a hormone spray

You can use banvine mixed with water to kill broadleaf weeds in your lawn or thistles on a farm without hurting desirable grass species

I use BanVine on the lawn when it starts warming up.
Broadleaf curling up after 8 days, even after rain on the 2nd day.
Instructions recommend 1:10 mix, double sprayed (LawnBoy applicator) on first application, second spray (same as first), 5-6 weeks later.
Grass looking good, broadleaf weeds - very sick.
An ideas for clover, as this only shows burn marks where BanVine landed on it.
Oh - I got mine from Farmlands, around $36-$37 for 5 litres of concentrate.

I used "Renovate" to kill nearly 2 acres of it.
Use a fixer/penetrent with it as well.

If it is thick, spray it to wet it as deep into the layer/mat as possible. Let it die down for 10 days, then use a rake or a hoe and wind row it up. Spray the wind row and the area you have cleared. Leave it 10 days then roll with wind row over, spray the row and the ground you have uncovered. Repeat until nothing is left. You then need to spot spray every 3-4 weeks to catch any regrowth.
My native bush at home has been jew free for 12 years now!

Originally Posted by hotbarrels

I used "Renovate" to kill nearly 2 acres of it.
Use a fixer/penetrent with it as well.

If it is thick, spray it to wet it as deep into the layer/mat as possible. Let it die down for 10 days, then use a rake or a hoe and wind row it up. Spray the wind row and the area you have cleared. Leave it 10 days then roll with wind row over, spray the row and the ground you have uncovered. Repeat until nothing is left. You then need to spot spray every 3-4 weeks to catch any regrowth.
My native bush at home has been jew free for 12 years now!

Sure this would have worked but is really overkill!

Just spray the area thoroughly then walk away and let the chemical do it's work for 4-6 months.
Then visit the area every 6 months to nuke any bits that survived. Let the dead stuff rot on the ground.

Renovate is no longer on the market. It was half-strength Grazon with a built-in penetrant.

Originally Posted by rockland

Sure this would have worked but is really overkill!

Just spray the area thoroughly then walk away and let the chemical do it's work for 4-6 months.
Then visit the area every 6 months to nuke any bits that survived. Let the dead stuff rot on the ground.

Renovate is no longer on the market. It was half-strength Grazon with a built-in penetrant.

Unfortunately the Jew was up to 4' thick in places so I had to keep turning it over to get to the fresh stuff, otherwise the dead layer on the top just formed a protective layer for the stuff underneath. Maybe the fact that Renovate is a 1/2 strength was a big part of the story. At the time [15 years ago] the spray company's couldn't tell me what would work. Great to know that I ended up working twice as hard as I needed to

Banvine, versatil, tordon grazon. Clover is completly stuffed by versatil as well if thats a bonus.

Leave the clover alone, you'll kill my bees, and bees make honey, and honey makes MEAD!!