Re: Lawns
>I have a relatively newly-established lawn here in Israel - "antorro".
>At the beginning of the winter, I considered it ecologically sound to
>spread some animal compost on it, so spread several bags of cattle waste
>all over it as fertilizer.
>I felt very good about what I had done until I discovered that the
>cattle waste includes undigested seeds of unwanted grasses. I now have
>wild grasses growing between the blades of my smooth lawn. Speaking to
>local gardeners, I was told that I would have to root out each blade of
>wild grass manually if I wanted to get my lawn back.
>Is that the only solution?
What a mess. I did a similar thing years ago when I amended my entire
vegetable garden with goat manure. We had beautiful raised beds filled
with grass all summer!
I know of no way to get rid of the grass other than to weed it. One thing
you might consider -- those are probably annual grasses and if you can keep
the grasses from going to seed, you might be able to prevent their
reappearance next year. Mowing might keep them from going to seed, though
you might watch to be sure that they don't simply put up shorter and
shorter seed heads which happens with some plants that get mowed or cut
back.
Good luck - and I suggest that next time, you hot compost the manure
before you spread it... : }
Nan
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Nan Sterman
San Diego County California
Sunset zone 24, USDA hardiness zone 10b or 11
