Re: Kikuyu Grass has Hidden Virtues

We've got plenty of kikuyu in Berkeley CA; it apparently was the best survivor of a
five years' drought, and indeed does make itself a monoculture given any opportunity.
Having more or less controlled it in one strip between concrete barriers -- though it
does poke underneath them resolutely! -- it's fine.  Builds a turf though; as Moira
Ryan mentioned, it doesn't go deep, but I'm going at some point to have to get out
the old timber saw and slice six inches of height off that area by holding the blade
at ground level and sawing.  No doubt it won't hurt the plant.

It did freeze back to brown the past few weeks here, when we had several nights in
a row of hard frost, but it's greening up already.

But, lordy, it's tough to remove -- not that taking the top layer off with the
pitchfork as we also did is hard, nor beating the dirt out of the masses of roots
and rhizomes - but it always comes back; it seeds copiously without being at all obvious
about it too -- lots of new plants coming up everywhere now that it's rained a bit.
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