Can You Use Glyphosate Around Trees? Yes, But . . . .

Be careful. This video provides 3 tips on using herbicides such as glyphosate near desirable trees. Here's a summary of key points in the video: 0:00 introduction 0:18 3 tips for avoiding injury to trees from herbicides including glyphosate 0:25 First, make sure you don't treat the suckers of a desirable tree. 0:54 Second, don't allow overspray or off-target spray to contact the bark of desirable trees. 1:24 bark splitting of trees from overspray or off-target spray of glyphosate. 1:58 to avoid "flashback," follow these two precautions. 2:29 first precaution: don't use herbicides such as imazapyr that are highly mobile in soils. 2:56 second precaution: don't use large amounts of concentrated glyphosate near desirable trees. 5:06 Using foam herbicide to apply to weed trees near a large red oak. Research Cited: Hannah Mathers, Ohio State University. See https://trees.umn.edu/sites/trees.umn... Miller T, Current Status of Herbicides for Controlling Invasive Knotweeds in the United States, PowerPoint presentation 2007, presented at the Western Society of Weed Science, Knotweed symposium, March 15-16, 2007.