Where can i buy 2 tonnes of salt?

[Jack91]

I got a lot of free fill when i bought my place 5 years ago, so free in fact that cartage was free.
Seems to be contaminated with some out of this world weeds.
They laughed at roundup. So i covered the whole thing is 300mm of crushed concrete and compacted it.
Due to my neglect of it out of frustration i now have what can only be described as weed trees.
Id need a slasher to mow this, so every weekend i got get a pair of diaposable overalls and don a face mask and the poor whipper snipper is on max revs for about 2 hours and 2 full tanks.
2 weeks ago i bought 200kg of pool salt and put it on some weeds in the front yard and seems this has put the weeds in their place ie dead.
I want to cover my whole block with it and perhaps just blue metal on top but this will take a LOT of salt.
Ideas would be good if anyones done this, Ive never felt so defeated at something so stupid.

[.:4:.]

Im pretty sure its an epa violation to salt the ground. Granted my property isnt that big, but from a neighbouring property through to another there was this weed/tree like weed that popped up but had a common root between the weeds. What i did was also not really epa friendly, but i found where it entered at my fence line dug it out and cut the root, put a little petrol on it. Cut the weed, again a little more petrol and kept digging cutting and dousing. 100% not the recomended method, but it did work. Didnt kill any grass either.

[winkle]

Go to any farm supplies outlet and ask. They'll be able to recommend an appropriate course of action.

[naddis01]

I personally wouldn't add salt. You could end up with a bigger headache than the weeds.

Do you have a photo of said weeds? Maybe add Dicamba or MCPA to the Roundup.

[hayseed]

https://murrayriversalt.com.au/

[Rallye Sport]

You need either a pre-emergent to stop the seeds germinating or something like Numchuck quad to knock the existing weeds down and mop up the remaining seed

[XR Martin]

You need to work out what it is so you can kill them properly.
Salting the earth basically kills the land indefinatly.
May as well soak the ground in diesel.

[buggerlugs]

Originally Posted by XR Martin

May as well soak the ground in diesel.

Salt would have to be cheaper..........

[marty351]

Can using too much fertilizer work? I once killed an entire garden bed using fish emulsion fertilizer - too concentrated and too often. After 2 years and plenty of watering later, it provided a bountiful abundance of healthy vegetation.

[zilo]

Originally Posted by Jack91

I got a lot of free fill when i bought my place 5 years ago, so free in fact that cartage was free.
Seems to be contaminated with some out of this world weeds.
They laughed at roundup. So i covered the whole thing is 300mm of crushed concrete and compacted it.
Due to my neglect of it out of frustration i now have what can only be described as weed trees.
Id need a slasher to mow this, so every weekend i got get a pair of diaposable overalls and don a face mask and the poor whipper snipper is on max revs for about 2 hours and 2 full tanks.
2 weeks ago i bought 200kg of pool salt and put it on some weeds in the front yard and seems this has put the weeds in their place ie dead.
I want to cover my whole block with it and perhaps just blue metal on top but this will take a LOT of salt.
Ideas would be good if anyones done this, Ive never felt so defeated at something so stupid.

How many square metres are we talking about?

[PooDog]

If you still want to put salt on it just go to your local fertilizer works they should be able to supply it

[383hq]

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