Re: Grass Removal

I have been using Ortho's Grass be Gone for a couple of years around bearded, LA, amd spuria irises with no problems.   It is slow but it kills the grass and hasn't harmed my irises.
                                                             Pat in Dallas

"J. Griffin Crump" <jgcrump@cox.net> wrote:
  Steve -- I suppose there are several kinds of landscaping cloth on the 
market. The kind with which I have experience, which fits your description, 
permits grass to grow up through it. If left untended, grass can thoroughly 
permeate it in a couple of years, and then you have an awful problem. I 
leased a plot of ground which had been covered by the stuff in between 
vegetable beds. When my efforts with hoe and shovel failed, I had to get 
the owners to come in with a backhoe to remove it before I could work the 
ground. If you have or can find a type that isn't permeable by grass, does 
it permit enough moisture to penetrate?

I use Preen, which does a good job preventing most everything except grass, 
morning glories and a few broadleaf weeds. The beds that I have, 
additionally, mulched with an inch or two of fine shredded pine bark -- in 
early winter after first freeze -- are still virtually weed-free after 2 
years. When invasive ground covers or wire grass appear, I dab them with 
Roundup, using an artist's paintbrush. No drift or spillover, that way. -- 
Griff

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Steve Szabo" 
To: 
Sent: Sunday, October 07, 2007 11:00 AM
Subject: [iris] Using Landscaping Cloth


>I guess that is what one calls it--landscaping Cloth. It is a coarse
> type cloth-like material to act as a barrier against weeds. I came into
> an amount of it as a freebie and was thinking that I could use it in the
> garden where I have my iris planted. The question I have is that if you
> hae used it with your iris, how much room do you give them to allow for
> growth by cutting holes or slits or what?
>
> The problem is that the weeds here are really getting out of hand, and I
> simply cannot keep up with them, so I am looking at a method that may
> help me with keeping the weeds at least under control, if not
> eliminated.
>
> Thanks.
>
> \\Steve//
>
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