RE: selective grass killer... was crown vetch?
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- Subject: RE: selective grass killer... was crown vetch?
- From: D*
- Date: Mon, 17 Jul 2000 18:02:03 -0500
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> 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.
Sounds good.
Bermuda grass is barely there as one of my weedy foes. To be honest, I have
more trouble with wood sorrel and creeping charlie.
My main pest grass slinks around, vamping in from the lawn via stringy
runners. Nutsedge, that pull-up-pop-up-again monster model, is a close
second. So the jerk and clean works as well as anything else I've tried. I
prefer it because I can't depend on Verbena bonariensis to winter over.
(And, this way, I get to keep my self-seeding <shhhh!> annuals popping up in
unexpected places from year to year.) Use a rake, or that terrible
weedwizard tool that looks like western spurs with an attitude, and the
roots almost sift themselves out as they clog up the works.
Barb in Southern Indiana Zone 5/6 dorsett@blueriver.net
"If you are not killing plants, you are not really stretching yourself as
a gardener."
- J. C. Raulston
> 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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