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Comments (9)Grass clippings do not necesarily have seeds unless the grass has been allowed to produce them. Other than Annual Ryegrass, "Lolium multiflorum", I have not seen grasses produce seed heads until the grass gets quite high. So the source of those seeds might be from elsewhere and since many grasses in the "cool season" areas spread by stolens and rhizomes those may be the source of the grass in your planting beds, too. Many grass plants will succumb when covered with mulches, if those mulches deprive the grass of access to sunlight. I have, temporarily, killed off Quack Grass using newspaper and shredded leaves, wood chips, grass clippings, etc. but it would always grow back from the rhizomes that stay viable in the soil. I have also seen other grass species send roots into this now really good soil, even over or under the 4 inch barriers many people put in to stop that grass....See MoreTo put seeded weeds or not put seeded weeds in the compost?
Comments (9)We have one especially hot compost bin (a Rubbermaid plastic job my brother gave me a few years ago) that heats up more than my pallet bins just from being so completely enclosed, greenhouse effect. We put our weedy-seedy things into that bin. But in the past I put weeds in our other compost as well, whomever said that one is always going to have to weed so what the heck is right on. As for keeping stuff out of the landfill, that isn't relevant for me, there is no way I would EVER put plant material in my trash. The only exception is bagged poison ivy. Creeping charlie I put in a large plastic bag that is sealed up and I let it cook to death before composting it. Creeping charlies frightens me! When I found some in a flower bed a week or so afo I actually gasped in horror. :-) I put my other worst weed, quack grass, into the hot compost bin. Marcia...See MoreQuestion about composting weeds
Comments (3)seedmama, I am pretty sure its on easment property as the plants are lining highways and surface roads. There is a major expansion to a state highway being constructed which has churned up the land around the construction. The 5+ foot grasses, ferns, sunflowers and thistles are only growing because of the construction efforts and the city/county comes out semi-regularly to mow it back from the road side because the stuff threatens to overhang the existing roadway. And there are literally miles of the stuff, bordering the farmland and bedroom communities along the highway. I wasn't thinking about pulling them, just cutting the plant back then cutting off the head where the seeds may be and stuffing the foliage in a bag to take home. I don't think erosion is much of a concern, as I am not going to cut back any more than they already do when they mow the sites. Cheers!...See MoreThe five rules for weeding in Texas - at least this part of Texas
Comments (11)Oh yeah, patty-cakes, I never wear flip flops if I'm gardening. Dh wears Tevas all the time and stepped into a fire ant bed. Couldn't get those things off! At least you can kick off flip flops and start knocking off the ants....See Morefloraluk2
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