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Re: Prairie Restoration

>Does anyone have any suggestions on how to get rid of reeds canary grass
>around the perimeter of a large pond in order to replant with diverse native
>vegetation?
>I would appreciate any feedback.
>Thank you.
>Christine Taliga
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I have quite successfully eleminated most reed canary grass from a number
of sites in our 50-acre prairie reconstruction here in central Iowa.  Two
things are required, persistance and good plant diversity.  Around one of
our ponds we introduced slough grass clumps, they have nearly encircled
three sides of the pond.  Most of the water area is now occupied by river
bulrush (Carex sp.) and round-stem bulrush.  Our pond has a very low
nitrate level which may also help discourage reed canary.  A few clumps of
reed canary still remain, and I try to treat them each season by wicking
with a 30% solution of round-up.  It takes a very small amount of chemical
to set it back for the entire season.  It asppears that regrowth is about
20% the following year.

I have also been very successful eleminating it from swales by wicking and
having a good prairie matrix.  Rigid goldenrod, gray-headed coneflowers,
and sawtooth sunflowers are three of the most important colonizers.  It
appears from my observations that grasses alone, perhaps with the exception
of slough grass and some of the larger sedges will not take out reed
canary.






Carl Kurtz
515-477-8364
cpkurtz@netins.net 


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