Helena Crossbow Herbicide
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4.7 of 5 stars (39)
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137 of 150 people found this review helpful:

More useful than Roundup
4 of 5 stars
By T. in McConnellsburg, PA on 06/13/2011

My wife and I own 55 acres of mostly overgrown pasture in south-central Pennsylvania. It wasn't pastured for about 30 years and was taken over by multi-flora rose, honeysuckle shrub, autumn olive, gra…

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99 of 110 people found this review helpful:

Works great on Poison Oak
5 of 5 stars
By Chris in San Jose on 03/17/2013

I have 18 acres of land in Northern California, which is heavily infested with Poison Oak. Crossbow works very well for controlling the Poison Oak. It can take several weeks to see the results after s…

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90 of 91 people found this review helpful:

Love it for poison ivy!
5 of 5 stars
By Anonymous in wapwallopen PA on 07/20/2013

I found crossbow after talking with a greens keeper at the local golf course. Cross bow is great at killing all woody brush. I love that I can spray it right thru the grass and all it will kill is the…

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73 of 77 people found this review helpful:

Works Great
5 of 5 stars
By Jamie in Winston-Salem, NC on 05/08/2014

I have used Crossbow Herbicide 2x's on the Ivy bed in my front yard. The first time I sprayed I noticed the bright green leaves turning a little yellow after about 3 days. I waited a couple of weeks a…

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54 of 58 people found this review helpful:

Crossbow on Live Oak sprouts
5 of 5 stars
By David in Nevada City, CA on 09/10/2013

I have been using Crossbow on various plants. It really kills blackberries and gooseberries. I mainly have been using it to kill sprouts on Live Oak stumps that were masticated a year ago. It takes a …

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37 of 39 people found this review helpful:

Works fantastic!
5 of 5 stars
By Lindsay in Bluffton, SC on 03/17/2016

This stuff works great! I had Weed-B-Gone'd and Round Up'd Blackberries that were growing in my yard to no avail. One spray with this, and it killed it!

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34 of 38 people found this review helpful:

Killed established bermuda grass.
2 of 5 stars
By John in Toney, Alabama on 09/27/2014

I don't know the exact kind of Bermuda grass that I have but it killed it along with the weeds. Q&A's on this product said it wasn't suppose to kill the Bermuda grass.

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28 of 29 people found this review helpful:

Crossbow Herbicide
5 of 5 stars
By Dave in Scottville, MI on 06/30/2016

Great brush killer. Used on 72 acre farm with several open fields that Autumn Olive was starting to grow in and take over. Noticed complete kill within a week and a half of spraying onto leaves with 1…

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24 of 26 people found this review helpful:

A Powerful Herbicide For Tough To Kill Weeds
5 of 5 stars
By Robertm. in Marion, Ohio on 07/25/2017

Crossbow is based on 2/4/D herbicide. It has additives to increase it's absorption and make it work better on tough, woody plants like briars, honeysuckle and elderberry. It doesn't kill most grasses.…

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22 of 25 people found this review helpful:

crossbow
5 of 5 stars
By Dan in Sag Harbor NY on 05/11/2015

I had an invasion of CREEPING CHARLIE, other herbicides did nothing, crossbow has it controlled or dead

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22 of 22 people found this review helpful:

Death to Feral Bradford Peras
5 of 5 stars
By Richard in Campobello, SC on 08/09/2015

I have about 6 acres of horse pasture that was overrun by feral bradford pear trees before I bought the place in April. Previous owner let it all go apparently. I have been using Crossbow over the sum…

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22 of 22 people found this review helpful:

Poison Ivy Killer
5 of 5 stars
By John in Lino Lakes, Mn on 08/12/2015

This product worked great on killing a huge "crop" of poison ivy I had growing on a property I just purchased. It did a great job of killing the poison Ivy even late in the growing season (early Augu…

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21 of 22 people found this review helpful:

Control blackberries and salal
5 of 5 stars
By J in Woodinville, WA on 07/11/2015

This is the best product that I have found for controlling invasive BlackBerries and so loud. Works great and is economical.

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19 of 22 people found this review helpful:

Best Herbicide EVER
5 of 5 stars
By Jerry in Arp on 04/06/2017

We had a guy come in and grind all the trees off a section of our property. On that land there was tons of briar. We sprayed Crossbow on the freshly cut vines and by the end of the day they were dead.

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19 of 20 people found this review helpful:

Works!
5 of 5 stars
By Ndrw in Virginia on 06/26/2016

We love this! It kills the rampant plantain and wild violets that were taking over our 2 acres of grass. It kills the other weeds, too, such as poison ivy, ivy, etc. It does take longer to have a tota…

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18 of 19 people found this review helpful:

Death to Wisteria!
5 of 5 stars
By Anonymous in NJ on 08/30/2013

I bought this to eradicate a chinese Wisteria that has spread to over 1/4 acre and is pulling down trees by climbing and strangling. Not on my property but guess where the trees fall? Yeah, on my gara…

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16 of 17 people found this review helpful:

Excellent product
5 of 5 stars
By Lee in St Marys, GA on 09/24/2013

I have used both on woody areas and broad leaf weed control with great results. Not for use near turf grass when over 85 degrees as stated on the label as I discovered with minimal drift during woody …

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13 of 15 people found this review helpful:

Review of Cross Bow
5 of 5 stars
By Jean in Yuba City Ca on 05/20/2014

I own a Self Storage facility and this product kills all the weeds on the gravel parking lot

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11 of 12 people found this review helpful:

Crossbow Herbicide
5 of 5 stars
By Margaret in Plymouth, WI on 10/06/2014

I used crossbow in the spring to get rid of creeping charle and it worked great! I ordered more to use in the fall after the first frost, haven't sprayed yet as we have not got a frost.

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11 of 12 people found this review helpful:

Target: Lawn Violets & Creeping Charlie
4 of 5 stars
By Darel in Chesterton, IN on 09/26/2016

I've never run across a more difficult invader than the lawn violet. These dang things are next to impossible to eradicate. I sprayed a mix of Crossbow (with dish soap) on them several weeks ago and t…

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11 of 13 people found this review helpful:

Autumn Olive
5 of 5 stars
By Quail in Eastern West Virginia on 08/19/2016

Good results using this on autumn olive .. Mixed 7 oz. /3 gallon water in a hand sprayer .. No surfactant .. Slow but sure .. Seems to work on poplar sprouts and black locust sprouts too .. Too soon t…

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9 of 9 people found this review helpful:

Crossbow Herbicide
5 of 5 stars
By Wilma in New Holland on 10/27/2016

I ordered the Crossbow Herbicide and the bottle was damaged in shipping. I contacted the company and they shipped me another bottle for free. I needed the herbicide to kill the wild violets in the law…

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7 of 7 people found this review helpful:

Crossbow Herbicide
5 of 5 stars
By James in Tryon, NC on 04/03/2015

I had been to Helena Chemical and they did not have any Crossbow in stock. So I came home and started searching and found you.. Was very pleased with you and the price...I will certainly do business…

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6 of 6 people found this review helpful:

Exactly what I wanted.
5 of 5 stars
By David in Laplace, LA on 07/17/2017

Product came fast, packaged well, good price, did exactly what it said it would do. Great!!!

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5 of 5 people found this review helpful:

Powerful Stuff
5 of 5 stars
By Ron in South Florida on 08/05/2017

We are in South East Florida. Property Area is Very Small-Compressed, Less Than 1/4 Acre. ..I have surrounding neighbors whom Do-Not maintain their Bushes that grow into my chainlink fence and grow ou…

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4 of 5 people found this review helpful:

Looking good after three days
4 of 5 stars
By John in Grass Valley,California on 05/19/2016

Plants are wilting after one day will know more in a week , ordering more Crossbow today

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3 of 27 people found this review helpful:

Loss of fluid.
3 of 5 stars
By Skip in Eatonville, WA. on 05/26/2016

Haven't used it yet, however, about 10 percent of it leaked out. How about a free smaller bottle to compensate for the loss.

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3 of 4 people found this review helpful:

DoMyOwn is my Source
5 of 5 stars
By Jon in Arizona on 06/07/2019

Good products at competitive prices with excellent service. I use this herbicide mixed with Glyphosate herbicide for broad spectrum application and with excellent results. DoMyOwn provides all…

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2 of 5 people found this review helpful:

Crossbow vs. Creeping Charlie and Canadian Violets
3 of 5 stars
By Dennis in Homer on 07/27/2017

I tried 1% solution on both Creeping Charlie (Ground Ivy), and Canadian Violets. It did not seem to be working after about two weeks. I hit it again with a 1-1/2 % solution and some of the Creeping Ch…

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2 of 2 people found this review helpful:

weed killer
5 of 5 stars
By Frances in bristol tennessee on 06/19/2020

this is the best weed killer i have bought. Within no time the spray started working. Killed all my river weeds in the pasture as well as poison oak

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