Anybody Know of or Tried This?

Teacher_Mike · May 7, 2006

From my local paper...what do you all know or think?

Quote:

Lebanon-based Lebanon Seaboard Corp. is debuting a new organic weed preventer that's safe for use in vegetable gardens. It's 100% corn gluten - a byproduct of corn processing.

Corn gluten has been around for several years, but this is the first use of it under Lebanon Seaboard's popular Preen brand of weed preventers.

Just sprinkle the granular Preen Vegetable Organic Weed Preventer on the soil surface, water in, and it stops most weed seeds from germinating.

You can use it immediately in beds with transplants....

Since it is a corn byproduct, it is safe for use around children, pets, and wildlife.

WildLife · May 7, 2006

Since it is a corn byproduct, it is safe for use around children, pets, and wildlife.

Safe around me? Thats new!

Corn gluten meal is used as a lawn "pre-emergant" by the
organic crowd. I have heard good things about it.
I wanted to try it this year but never got to the
feed store, maybe this fall. I would use plain CGM
instead of the product mentioned. Cheaper I am sure,
not surprised a company picked up on the benefits
of a germinator suppressor.
Wild "ah natural" Life

Althea · May 8, 2006

I've used CGM. I got some from a friend who got a 50 lb. bag at a feed store for a fraction of the cost of the CGM packaged and sold as organic weed-n-feed. It worked very well for me in controlling weeds in the lawn and fertilizing the grass at the same time. It is best applied twice per year, in the spring when the daffodils and forsynthia are in bloom then in mid-August to kill summer germinating undesirables. You need to wait a few weeks before planting seeds of any kind after applying it. It prevents germinated seedlings from growing.

PaulF · May 8, 2006

I have worked around corn gluten and if it starts to ferment you had better stand back because it stinks to high heaven. Maybe the smell kills the weeds.

May 8, 2006	#3
Althea Tomatovillian™ Join Date: Jan 2006 Location: z4MN Posts: 261	I've used CGM. I got some from a friend who got a 50 lb. bag at a feed store for a fraction of the cost of the CGM packaged and sold as organic weed-n-feed. It worked very well for me in controlling weeds in the lawn and fertilizing the grass at the same time. It is best applied twice per year, in the spring when the daffodils and forsynthia are in bloom then in mid-August to kill summer germinating undesirables. You need to wait a few weeks before planting seeds of any kind after applying it. It prevents germinated seedlings from growing. __________________ Solanaceae Hugger

May 7, 2006	#2
WildLife Tomatovillian™ Join Date: Feb 2006 Location: Long Beach, Calif Posts: 144	Since it is a corn byproduct, it is safe for use around children, pets, and wildlife. Safe around me? Thats new! Corn gluten meal is used as a lawn "pre-emergant" by the organic crowd. I have heard good things about it. I wanted to try it this year but never got to the feed store, maybe this fall. I would use plain CGM instead of the product mentioned. Cheaper I am sure, not surprised a company picked up on the benefits of a germinator suppressor. Wild "ah natural" Life

May 8, 2006	#4
PaulF Tomatovillian™ Join Date: Jan 2006 Location: Brownville, Ne Posts: 3,296	I have worked around corn gluten and if it starts to ferment you had better stand back because it stinks to high heaven. Maybe the smell kills the weeds.