Summer grass in my creeping juniper
szukowski
12 years ago
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Kimmsr
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Deer-ravaged juniper, how to screen it with grass or perennial
Comments (5)You'll likely know by the end of the summer just what is going to regenerate. I have a juniper hedge outside my den windows, and the winter before last, deer did a real number on it. This last winter, it was left pretty alone because I put some black plastic bird netting on it which the deer do find annoying. There's been very good regeneration. So I'm just leaving the netting year 'round and the junipers can grow through it. You can't see it unless you're on top of it. One of the grasses with a nice plume is about the only thing I can think of that would give you enough height to hide it, meantime....See Morebermuda grass in my monkey grass
Comments (10)I agree that digging the bermuda out and then putting in a garden barrier to keep it from creeping back into the liriope is the most effective way to remove the bermuda grass from the monkey grass area long-term because if you kill the bermuda with a herbicide, since bermuda is such an aggressive grower, it just will continue to infiltrate the liriope over time. For a short term solution, you can use one of the over-the-top weedkillers like Ornamec or Fertilome's Over-The-Top grass killer. I just checked Fertilome's Over The Top label online to verify, and it says it kills bermuda grass. It also lists liriope (monkey grass) as tolerant of the product, meaning that when the product is properly mixed and applied following label directions exactly, the liriope should not be harmed by the product. I do know people who have killed plants with these over the top herbicides by mixing them at a higher rate or applying much more heavily than the label specifies, so be sure you are careful to follow the label directions exactly. Here's the label, which includes extensive lists of plants that shouldn't be harmed by the proper use of the Over The Top product. Label for Fertilome's Over-The-Top Herbicide...See Morebermuda grass creeping in...what to do
Comments (19)Hi, I just noticed this thread today and, boy, can I relate to it!!! My raised beds are also lasagna garden style - cardboard over lawn then compost fill. The bermuda grass has been coming up through the two layers of cardboard and 6" or so of soil on top of that. I just spent 4 solid hours yanking out bermuda grass in my 3 x 16 raised bed for peppers and eggplant and then cutting and putting in place weedblock to go around 32 plants. What a job! I seemed to get out the roots on about 50% of the grass, but others just the top parts and had a few really stubborn clumps that I ended up cutting with scissors. I was wondering if I could put a little round-up or vinegar in a basting syringe and apply it directly to the most stubborn clumps without damaging the peppers/eggplants about 6" away. It'll be interesting to see how people reply to a previous post suggesting something similar. I also happen to have a heat gun that I've brought out to the garden before to make the assembly of my drip irrigation system a bit easier. I was wondering if I could put the heat gun on high on the offending clumps (without the heat getting to the peppers or eggplants). Would this kill the whole plant (or runner) or just the stuff above the soil line? Previously, I'd weeded my 5 x 16 tomato beds (not so much bermuda grass) and put down weedblock. It's been down a couple of weeks now. At first I could see little areas of weedblock that poked up (grass growing beneath), but that seems to have stopped, so hopefully the grass is at least slowing down. I do have all the plants on drip emitters so I'm just watering the tomatoes and not the weeds (and after a late rain, looks like we're going into our summer season with about 4 months or maybe more of no rain), so I've got my fingers crossed that I'll beat the bermuda grass for the time being. Once the growing season is over, though, I think I'll take some measures to totally kill the b. grass (if that's possible) before next springs planting. Anne...See Moreneighbor’s irises creeping under my fence.
Comments (8)"why a person who despises nature so much he puts down fake grass" LOL!! There may very well be absolutely NO correlation at all with using artificial turf and "hating nature"! In fact, I'd venture to say nature-haters make up a very small minority of those who have artificial turf. There are various reasons why one would opt for artificial turf over a lawn, the primary one being that artificial turf is more ecologically sound than maintaining a lawn. That was a pretty judgmental observation....See MoreKimmsr
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