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Post by daylilydude on Jun 13, 2011 5:53:40 GMT -5
Is EVIL stuff! Is there a way of controlling this stuff, short of killing it all and starting over?
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Post by time2bee on Mar 5, 2012 18:04:34 GMT -5
Well, I'd like to know too. It has found its way into a raised bed and now the battle's on. Just pulling it so far but that's just to give me time to figure out a game plan.
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Post by txdirtdog on Mar 5, 2012 21:46:58 GMT -5
I'm fighting that fight also in the garden. The only thing I've found is to use a hand tiller or better yet a strong pitch fork and go down deep enough to get the roots out mostly intact. I still have it, but each year there's less than the year before. Regular tiller will just chop up the roots creating multiple plants.
For bermuda interspersed with a lawn of another grass type, I have no idea.
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Post by Deleted on Mar 6, 2012 12:17:24 GMT -5
I have learnt to live with this grass, its in the lawn ,its every where,just do my best to dig out what I can ,used vinegar once on a small amount in a pathway,didn't seem to do any thing but it did rain 2 days after I poured the vinegar on.
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Post by olgraybear on Mar 6, 2012 14:58:14 GMT -5
If there is a better way I haven't seen or heard of it,
My suggestion, for what its worth is digging a trench around your garden bed area, about 4 inches deep by 4 inches wide If you have a large area, it might take you awile but after its done its just a matter of keeping up with it
other than that plant a border about the same, 4 inches deep
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Post by time2bee on Mar 11, 2012 23:15:46 GMT -5
Well, I dug down into my box to get at the root of the problem, so to speak, and I couldn't believe all the worms I was disturbing. That is disturbing. So I finished my job and apologetically covered em back up... I guess now it's on to digging a 4" trench around the outside. Surely don't want to disturb the buddies again unless I have too.
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Post by materman on Apr 12, 2013 10:52:12 GMT -5
I was going to spray and kill the whole yard and start over last year, but it got to dry for the re seeding so I didn't. But I have seen they have a spray that will only kill Bermuda grass. If it will it would be worth the cost in my opinion. Don't like using poisons, but sometimes a mans got to do what a mans got to do. Tip though, it does not like shade.
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Post by izitmidnight on Apr 12, 2013 11:06:56 GMT -5
I was going to spray and kill the whole yard and start over last year, but it got to dry for the re seeding so I didn't. But I have seen they have a spray that will only kill Bermuda grass. If it will it would be worth the cost in my opinion. Don't like using poisons, but sometimes a mans got to do what a mans got to do. Tip though, it does not like shade. Hmm, sounds like it might be worth giving this new spray a try. Do you know what they may be calling it?
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Post by materman on Apr 12, 2013 12:30:41 GMT -5
The name is Ornamec
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Post by Deleted on Apr 12, 2013 12:55:26 GMT -5
Will be hunting that TODAY. I only have two major difficult weeds to deal with every year, and bermudagrass is one of them. The second is nutsedge. (Or nutgrass, or Coco, or whatever you call it locally.) I pull what I can, but the nut rarely comes up with it. The Mantis hooks hundreds of them by the strings between nuts every spring, but never gets them all. Does anyone know a product that will kill it, but not stay in the soil and hurt everything you try to replant the area with? MB
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Post by Laura_in_FL on Apr 12, 2013 13:16:23 GMT -5
I have eliminated nutsedge from some small areas by just exhausting it: pulling every tiny sprout I saw every week (more frequently is even better). Sooner or later it just doesn't have the nutrients left to put up another shoot. But that's really labor-intensive and not my idea of fun in the sun. An overlapped layer of corrugated cardboard (the kind from shipping boxes, appliance boxes, etc. - not cereal boxes!) blocks it. Make sure you have several inches of overlap everywhere, as it will exploit any chance to find sunlight. Cover with another mulch for aesthetics and to keep the cardboard from sailing off in the wind. That method is a lot less work but (a)terminates all plant life in the area and (b) keeps you from growing anything else in that area for that season. Unless you put a container garden there.
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Post by materman on Apr 12, 2013 13:42:09 GMT -5
Will be hunting that TODAY. I only have two major difficult weeds to deal with every year, and bermudagrass is one of them. The second is nutsedge. (Or nutgrass, or Coco, or whatever you call it locally.) I pull what I can, but the nut rarely comes up with it. The Mantis hooks hundreds of them by the strings between nuts every spring, but never gets them all. Does anyone know a product that will kill it, but not stay in the soil and hurt everything you try to replant the area with? MB Could just dig it up and eat it! Never have but they say it is nutritious
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