Re: Killing grass
- Subject: Re: Killing grass
- From: "Lynn Lamb" l*@carolina.rr.com
- Date: Fri, 30 Aug 2002 11:06:48 -0400
The grass is fescue. Interesting that you can till and plant very soon
after using Round-Up...thought you had to wait at least a couple of weeks.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Tiede, Karen E" <karen.tiede@eds.com>
To: <perennials@hort.net>
Sent: Friday, August 30, 2002 9:53 AM
Subject: Killing grass
> >I was fortunate enough to entice the Head Gardener of Daniel Stowe
> Botanical Garden, Douglas Ruhren,
> >NC Zone 7b
>
> Hum... that means you're in Charlotte, or near enough, and therefore you
are
> gardening in pretty much the same conditions I have, southwest of Raleigh.
> The biggest question about roundup--do you have wiregrass, witchgrass,
> whatever they call it locally near you, or not? Maybe it's Bermuda--the
> stoloniferous grass that gets into everything. Roundup helps; tilling,
> covering, shading out--will not touch it. Neither will solarization. (My
> neighbor tells me not even to burn it because the ashes will sprout.)
>
> One of my great stupid gardening mistakes was to till a patch of
witchgrass,
> thinking that turning it under would kill it. HA! all that did was break
> up the stolons, which each then sprouted, making it harder than ever to
> pull. At least the intact plant tends to come out of the bed in long
> strings of grass and if you're careful and the ground is soft, you can get
a
> couple of feet of it each handful.
>
> As deadly as it is, what amazes me is how many plants Roundup WON'T kill.
> Wisteria just drinks the stuff.
>
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