RE: selective grass killer... was crown vetch?
- To: perennials@mallorn.com
- Subject: RE: selective grass killer... was crown vetch?
- From: N* L*
- Date: Mon, 17 Jul 2000 13:48:49 CDT
Actually, I don't think the selective grass killers of this type (ornamec,
over-the-top, poast) care which plants are monocots; I presume since they
are post-emergent grass killers. They won't even kill sedges, much to my
dismay.
But I have been pleased with their performance in a particularly difficult
flower border (in which I fight a constant bermuda grass battle). The
shortcomings are: of course, the chemical in the environment issue, and
that it leaves lots of ugly brown dead grass. But, hey, dead bermuda grass
is better than live bermuda grass!! And much easier to pull out.
I tried the "sift the soil to remove the grass method" when I put in this
bed. Spent evenings and weekends for 2 weeks sifting through by hand,
digging all the grass out, then planted and mulched. Within a month, I was
pulling out bermuda grass again (partly from my nighbor's side of the
fence). I like the grass herbicide much better.
Nancy Lowe
Arkansas, zone 7
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