Field garlic
Allium vineale
Weed profile
Perennial
Herb
Contaminates produce
Impact
Competes with crops. Can taint grain.
Description
- Perennial herb growing from a bulb.
- Leaves long, cylindrical and hollow.
- Stems erect, leafless, hollow, cylindrical.
- Flowers bell-shaped, pink or greenish in a loose cluster with numerous bulbils.
Control options
metsulfuron-methyl (600g/kg)
Application Method: Spot spray
Application Rate: 7g/ha
Product Name: Ally®
Herbicide Group: 2
Situation: Cereal crops.
Timing: Spot spray, 1-2 leaf stage.
Comments: Soil active herbicide, may damage desirable vegetation.
Legal Status: Product and use are registered, but this weed is on the label for Victoria and Tasmania only.
metsulfuron-methyl (600g/kg)
Application Method: Boom spray
Application Rate: 7g/ha
Product Name: Ally®
Herbicide Group: 2
Situation: Cereal crops.
Timing: Boom spray, 1-2 leaf stage.
Comments: Soil active herbicide, may damage desirable vegetation.
Legal Status: Product and use are registered, but this weed is on the label for Victoria and Tasmania only.
metsulfuron-methyl (600g/kg)
Application Method: Boom spray
Application Rate: 15g/ha
Product Name: Raystar Metsulfuron 600 WG®
Herbicide Group: 2
Situation: Pasture renovation and some grass pastures
Timing: Boom spray, July - August
Comments: Apply at bulb exhaustion stage. Add a surfactant. More than one year of application may be needed for control. Soil active herbicide, may damage desirable vegetation.
Legal Status: Registered
dicamba (500g/L)
Application Method: Spot spray
Application Rate: 600mL/100L
Product Name: Kamba 500®
Herbicide Group: 4
Situation: Non-crop areas.
Timing: Spot spray, spring, before bulbil formation.
Comments: Re-spray later if bulbils are formed.
Legal Status: Registered
dicamba (500g/L)
Application Method: Boom spray
Application Rate: 8.8L/ha
Product Name: Kamba 500®
Herbicide Group: 4
Situation: Non-crop areas.
Timing: Boom spray, spring, before bulbil formation.
Comments: Use at least 1500L/ha water. Re-spray later if bulbils are formed.
Legal Status: Registered
Legal requirements in each region
Must not be sold or traded in any way, including as a contaminant of anything.
Must not be transported on a public road, including as a contaminant of anything.
Land owners in this region to take reasonable steps to kill plants and prevent their spread. Enforceable by the Eyre Peninsula Landscape Board.
Must not be sold or traded in any way, including as a contaminant of anything.
Must not be transported on a public road, including as a contaminant of anything.
Land owners in this region to take reasonable steps to kill plants and prevent their spread. Enforceable by the Green Adelaide Board.
Must not be sold or traded in any way, including as a contaminant of anything.
Must not be transported on a public road, including as a contaminant of anything.
Land owners in this region to take reasonable steps to kill plants and prevent their spread. Enforceable by the Hills and Fleurieu Landscape Board.
Must not be sold or traded in any way, including as a contaminant of anything.
Must not be transported on a public road, including as a contaminant of anything.
Land owners in this region to take reasonable steps to kill plants and prevent their spread. Enforceable by the Kangaroo Island Landscape Board.
Must not be sold or traded in any way, including as a contaminant of anything.
Must not be transported on a public road, including as a contaminant of anything.
Land owners in this region to take reasonable steps to kill plants and prevent their spread. Enforceable by the Limestone Coast Landscape Board.
Must not be sold or traded in any way, including as a contaminant of anything.
Must not be transported on a public road, including as a contaminant of anything.
Land owners in this region to take reasonable steps to kill plants and prevent their spread. Enforceable by the Murraylands and Riverland Landscape Board.
Must not be sold or traded in any way, including as a contaminant of anything.
Must not be transported on a public road, including as a contaminant of anything.
Land owners in this region to take reasonable steps to kill plants and prevent their spread. Enforceable by the Northern and Yorke Landscape Board.
Must not be sold or traded in any way, including as a contaminant of anything.
Must not be transported on a public road, including as a contaminant of anything.
Must not be sold or traded in any way, including as a contaminant of anything.
Must not be transported on a public road, including as a contaminant of anything.
More Information
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Control advice
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