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PhilFar North Queensland, QLD
Over priced
You have to use 5 times more than Roundup, plus more weeds return faster. Bleach does a better job & a lot cheaper. Sorry, that unable to save the planet .I'm sick of all the crap over organic.
Purchased in January 2021 at Bunnings Warehouse for $29.00.
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Hi, further to my previous review, today 9/1/2020 I phoned the company responsible for this herbicide, they promised they would have a specialist contact me regarding its inability to kill perennial weeds. I won’t hold my breath waiting for contact from them.
12/1/2020 To the manufactures credit they have contacted me and have asked me to send in a sample of the herbicide so they can have it tested.
Purchased in December 2021 at Bunnings for $86.00.
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philWestern District, VIC
over rated and not cheap
killed the foliage of the weeds within a day or so but then the core of the weeds are now thriving, could have achieved the same result or even better with just boiling water
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I love it.
I love it. I use it around my vegetable garden. I give the weeds i don't want growing a heavy spray and within minutes you can see them change colour as they start dying off.
Purchased in September 2021 at Bunnings Warehouse.
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AmandaMetropolitan Adelaide, SA
A great alternative to protect our bees
This product works in a day or two and I'm very happy with the results. I've tried and tested other organic products including homemade, but this gives the best results.
However, if you're looking for a Kill--All, glyphosate, carcinogenic product and want a pristine garden look, this may not be the product for you. Slasher has been made for the conscious environmental people in mind, who don't want to spray and kill everything in their garden which isn't an official flower. Wildflowers can be beautiful too and the bees need them. Highly recommended!
Purchased in September 2021 at Bunnings Warehouse for $14.00.
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Evan Chooly GetitWestern Australia
- 9 reviews
Hit and miss
If you're looking a non toxic liquid to spray around this may be it.
However if you're looking for a silver bullet,this is a long way off
Why?
Well if like me you want to;
>use less chemicals, minimise the frequency of additional runs to kill weeds,
>kill weeds before pre seed set to lower eliminate future weed issues,
>at least come close to some of the main (positive) attributes of glypho, this is not it.
It seems you need a perfect lining up of ducks which is not likely to happen.You would need the weeds to exist in full sun, have several ...Read more
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Effective for shorter term use
Like this product...sadly, it doesn't go very far on acreage.
Very effective on warm/ hot conditions.
A little " smelly and oily" but ok.
I still buy it as the organic status overpowers longterm glyphosate.
Purchased for $90.00.
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FionaSydney
- 4 reviews
worthy of zero starts (pardon the pun)
This eco friendly product is also weed friendly. As in the photo on their website, it does indeed seem as if the weeds die in 24 hours. But guess what? Like Lazarus they rise again from the dead. Every time. Total waste of money, and it's expensive too. Back to glyphosate for me. Very disappointed.
Purchased in January 2021.
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Franz Kafka
- 10 reviews
Could be cheaper but good
I still find flame weeding is the cheapest and quickest method but it does present problems for about 6 months of the year.
Compared to flaming, slasher wins on convenience (not having to lug around a 9kg propane tank and not having to worry about setting fire to things) and it loses on cost and being a bit pongy.
I would say slasher is just as effective as flaming and takes about the same amount of time - while it is expensive compared to propane, it still only costs a few dollars to weed the whole property so it is still a feasible solution.
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murcodSouth Australia
- 21 reviews
- 17 likes
Expensive and not really a replacement for glyphosate.
Not only is this more expensive per litre (than generic glyphosate weed killers), you also mix it at 70ml per 1 litre of water.
I bought 1 litre of Slasher from Bunnings for $29.95, a generic glyphosate weed killer (like Hortico Weed Killer 360) costs only $9.90. The Hortico 360 1 litre container can make up to 200l, the Slasher 1 litre only makes 14.3l !!! So it's comparatively extremely expensive.
Slasher does start to give visible results within a couple of hours (weeds visibly wilting), whereas glyphosate is comparatively very slow to g...Read more
ive visible results. The Slasher hasn't been as effective with narrow leafed weeds with them not showing much (if any) visible effects after a week. A couple of Bindii weeds also seem to have survived with only some small brown patches on the leaves.Purchased in July 2021 at Bunnings Warehouse for $29.95.
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I forgot to mention there's also a warning that Slasher may discolour pavers/ concrete. I sprayed some on charcoal concrete pavers and it's left what looks like a giant "snail track" (according to my young daughter!)
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MicSydney, NSW
Sub par
It's great if you like the same weeds you spray come back weeks later. It doesn't kill all the roots in some weeds. It's not the silver bullet to replace Roundup (glyphosate).
Purchased in January 2021.
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Len EdwardsPerth, WA
Organic certified products are always the best to use.
20 yrs ago approx, when operating my Landscaping/Garden maintenance business & as part of my ongoing research into organic products, I discovered Slasher. Trial & error got it right. Semi retired now & till using it at the local school where I am gardening. The extra dollars it cost is balanced by it being fast & efficient.
Purchased in January 2021 at Bunnings Warehouse for $35.00.
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BeanGreater Melbourne (Metropolitan), VIC
- 3 reviews
- 3 likes
Its time to shift away from Glyphosate (aka Round-Up)
Been testing with this product for about a year now in varying temperatures and conditions. Professional gardener, so I use these product types regularly. It has worked fantastically in warm conditions and used it last week on a cold miserable day for the first time and it still worked great! I used some Round-Up in the same garden on the same day and a week later the weeds are barley yellowing with the standard concentration used, while at standard concentration with the Slasher, all weeds now fully dead.
You must apply a good coverage to ac...Read more
hieve maximum results with Slasher while Round-Up acts systemicly and has a small advantage here. That said, Slasher is very fast acting and in my opinion a far superior product. Other complaints have been its a little more expensive, yes, that may be so, but the effectiveness on weeds is better and particularly for the home gardener a large bottle once a year should be plenty. I feel now we need to be more conscience of what we are putting into the soil as a society also. Round-Up is a phosphate containing compound, which for Australian soils in particular should be avoided. So, by using this product, you are only doing your surrounding garden and environment potential damage. On top of that, we are now seeing court cases in the USA against Monsanto (the Round-Up creator). The last case (May, 2022) ordered Monsanto to pay 2 billion US dollars to the plaintiffs who have now likely obtained cancer from extensive use of this product. Anyway, despite all this. Slasher actually works better than Round-Up.Purchased in August 2021.
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MarkVictoria
- 9 reviews
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Just ok
Purchased this recently to use in my gardening business to replace round up. Extremely expensive and not as reliable but organic so that’s the plus I guess. Will give it a few more weeks.
Purchased in June 2021 at Bunnings Warehouse.
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MaurieFar North Queensland, QLD
- 6 reviews
- 8 likes
An Effective Organic Herbicide
Slasher is certified as organic and this is it's great advantage. It is expensive and difficult to use but it can be effective. It is essential to read the directions (when all else fails) as the two essential prerequisites for success are that the leaves are dry and receive a full cover. I use Slasher in the wet tropics which is a difficult area to gain control of weeds because of high moisture and plant growth.
Slasher is very effective on broadleaf plants at the 2 or 4 leaf stage and is ok on broadleaf grasses but struggles with established ...Read more
Purchased in January 2021 at Bunnings Warehouse.
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chalie
- 24 reviews
- 22 likes
I thought it was great
Small garden and we use on driveway, stairs etc were weeds are.
Does not kill bees like toxic roundup.
We love it and were very very happy with the results, will stick with it.
Purchased in March 2021.
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MacLoxton
A useful tool that is very effective if used correctly, but disappointing if you try to use it like
The product works by drying out plant cells to induce severe moisture stress in plants. The hotter and drier the plants are, the less Slasher is required to desiccate them. Conversely, if plants are well established in warm, humid conditions then control will be more difficult.
Slasher works well on a fresh germination of plants that are all the same size, as when weeds sprout after rain on bare soil.
It can be harder to kill established plants such as caltrop that grow from a crown and couch grass that grows from runners. If they are repea...Read more
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FordoAU
- 2 reviews
- 2 likes
Not good enough
I sprayed Slasher in my yard and found i to be very disappointing, as some small weeds died back, a lot never lost their green look, others never changed at all. So out came Round up job done. 70 ml of slasher is way to much, but it's worse when the product doesn't work effectively you don't want to be buying a product that does not do what it claims to do.
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LisianthusAlbany
- 19 reviews
Costing
We would all like to use a safe weed killer in our gardens but is it cost effective to use Slasher as opposed to hand weeding and mulch. Slasher requires 70mL per litre of water compared to that much talked about glyphosate at 10mL/ litre of water. So my purchase of a 20L container of Slasher costing $300 is equivalent to spending $2100 or purchasing about 14, 20L containers of glyphosate or 175 bales of pea hay. Just to get your mind ticking over further, a major hardware store sells Slasher in a 1L container for about $20 which is equivalent ...Read more
to getting 14 litres of glyphosate or about 11 bales of pea hay. Keep in mind that all chemicals used by us (organic or not) need to be handled with protection and even pea hay can have an adverse effect on hay fever sufferers.Similar opinion? Write a review on ieatwords.com.au!
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Evan Chooly Getit
After reviewing the second spray,sadly I had to hand weed things it should have killed the first time, such as ehrhata grass species.This is not a robust weed so Slasher should have nailed it.Some fla... Read more
tweed revived as well.It's too finnicky and expensive to use anywhere other than open spaces in perfect conditions or (like councils and govts) when it doesn't matter cos 'other peoples money'.Glypho,flame,steam,hand weeding and maybe a home made non toxic option for me.Might be OK for minuscule weeds in paving cracks, but a very $$$ to do it