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Ortho 0430210 Ground Clear Complete Vegetation Killer Concentrate - Quart

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This may look like a less expensive alternative to Roundup Extended Control, but here's the real deal:

Roundup Extended Control:

One bottle of concentrate (1 qt) makes 5 gallons and covers 1,500 square feet. It's advertised to prevent new growth for up to 4 months. In my experience, this is more like 4-6 months, even on gravel covered ground during the AZ monsoon season. Cost at the time of this writing = about $35 (but I've found it for less at a popular big box Home Outlet).

Ortho Ground Clear:

One bottle of the "concentrate" (1 qt) makes 1 gallon and covers only 75 square feet. It's advertised to prevent new growth for up to 1 year, but when you open up the label on the bottle you'll find this figure revised to 6-8 months for areas of "heavy rainfall." Cost at the time of this writing = about $10. If you want it to cover the same 1,500 square feet as $35 worth of Roundup Extended Control, you'll need to spend $200 on 20 bottles of Ortho Ground Clear.

I think I'll stick with the Roundup.

By the way, the instructions on the bottle of Ground Clear tell you to mix 1 quart into 1 gallon, but the bottle is only labeled in oz and mL. Somebody in the label making department wasn't paying attention.

My first time trying a seasonal vegetation killer. It does the job!

Sprayed it a couple of months ago, and all the vegetation is still dead. I even sprayed a brazilian pepper sapling that was about 4 feet tall poking through my deck, and it killed it within a couple of weeks, yikes!

I used 2 - 1 gallon containers of this stuff around my 4 unit property. Where the weeds grow up between the pavers. On a few places on the boarder of my flower beds. The temp was over 60 in fact it was 75. I'm in southern CA. Took a look a week later and the weeds I poured liberal amounts of this product,... are not even wilted!

I bought a gallon of this from the local home center about 3 months ago and covered about a third of my landscaping. After the wettest fall in local history, still no weeds. I'm shopping Amazon this time for a (much) better price. If you want to prevent weeds from growing up through your mulch, deck, or gravel, this is the stuff.

This works great to kill weeds and vegetation where you want to, like on your driveway, driveway seams, etc... just don't spray it in your yard... cause it kills everything.

My fault for listening to false advertising on the radio & not reading the fine print on the inside label. Live in Central FL where we have heavy rain in the summer. Just read on their website that this lasts only 6-8 months in areas with heavy rainfall. Well, I've been seeing weeds sprouting out by my bushes in March & we sprayed this in November.

I wish they wouldn't play their no-weeds-for-1-year ads in areas where that are known to experience heavy rain. The liquid border/edger thing worked better than this, at least there's still no grass/weeds at the edges of my yard & that was sprinkled earlier that the groundclear.