Recommended Cut’n’Paste Gels for Weed Species
It’s not as easy as it may seem to specify the recommended Cut’n’Paste Gels for Weed Species (over 2000 of them) for a number of reasons and the variety of environments and circumstances people find the weeds and themselves in.
Types of weeds
The weeds you identify are likely to be one of these types.
Trees and shrubs (woody plants)
Weeds that are trees or shrubs overtop or replace other plants and alter the composition of native plant communities, often preventing native plant regeneration.
Common trees considered weeds include: wattles, willows, tree privet and wilding pines. Common weeds that are shrubs include: barberry, gorse, heather, broom and buddleja.
Herbs (non-woody plants)
Herbs or perennials are non-woody plants. They can overtop small plants, crowding out native plants and preventing the regeneration of native seedlings.
Examples include: wandering willie, chilean rhubarb, wild ginger and pampas grass. They can also occur in aquatic habitats eg, oxygen weed that grows in lakes.
Vines
Vines climb and scramble, smothering trees and forest canopies.
Ivy, old man’s beard, Japanese honeysuckle, climbing spindleberry, mothplant and banana passionfruit are all problem weed vines in New Zealand.
For that reason we have steered clear of producing a definitive list, not withstanding that there are hundreds of weeds that could be mentioned. However, this list should be a guide to our recommendations. The list is by no means exhaustive.
Weedbusters have a very good listing of weeds and against each weed a herbicide recommendation and this should help to identify other solutions.
Also Forest and Bird make recommendations on their page
Please click on the PDF file below. Please note that right Cut’n’Paste Gels for Weed Species recommendation for Wooly Nightshade or Tobacco Weed is now Picloram Gel not Glyphosate.
