Re: ground ivy was: worms /soil building

Bill,

Someone on the organic gardening list mentioned that they trenched
around their beds and used roof flashing to keep out quack grass. I
believe you need to angle the flashing to prevent the rhizomes from
sneaking under the flashing:

Bed \ Weeds
 Bed \ Weeds

The angle forces the rhizomes to the top and the flashing has to be
buried as deep as the rhizomes go. The quackgrass warriors dug a 2'
deep trench. If you are going to the trouble of trenching anyway it
might be worthwhile to try this in a small area.

I thought the flashing idea might be good for containing aggressive
spreaders one might want to grow in a non-thug bed.

At 7:17 AM -0500 4/16/99, Blee811@aol.com wrote:

> Ground ivy:  Yes, as Marge said, this is a real nuisance plant and ppulling
> it seems the only solution.  I had a yard that had several areas with ground
> covers, euonymous, English ivy, and vinca.  I worked for days every year
> hand-ppulling every strand of this stuff I found in these areas and after 15
> years I had it almost eradicated.  Of course I couldn't use Round-Up (Finale
> is my new herbicide of choice) because of the ground covers.
>
> And Marge is also absolutely correct that it will travel under mulches, even
> newspapers and cardboard.  It's also now in the grasses on nearly all sides
> of my beds.  I trench around each bed every year which keeps it out of the
> beds for the most part, and what does creep in I pull.  I think that may be
> the only solution until someone either finds a very specific herbicide for
> this beast, or a genetic solution.  Too bad the deer don't seem to like it
> either.
> Bill Lee
> Zone 6a Cincinnati


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Peggy Enes (peggy@unicom.net)   Zone 5/6    NE KS     AHS Heat Zone 7


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