Bermuda grass growing into raised bed
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How to stop grass growing in my raised beds?
Comments (21)DH put in 3 raised beds for me 3 years ago. This is our third year and only minimal Bermuda grass coming through. Here is what he did. 1. Scalp the ground with the weed wacker down to dirt. 2. Lay down two layers of 10 year black weed blocker paper (water permeable). The bottom layer north to south and top layer east to west -and- he extended the paper about 3 inches outside the wood box. 3. Fill the beds (all 4x4) with potting mix and peat moss and all the old growing medium from our EarthBoxes. 4. During the summer and fall he regularly weed-wacks all around the raised beds to keep down any weeds in the area. The Bermuda grass has only rarely grown up thru the 10 inches of 'dirt' and I have no mulch around my okra, beans and squash. I plant collard greens in these same beds in fall and they stay until spring - still very, very few weeds. I credit the scalping DH does with weed-wacker for keeping the weeds from growing wild around the beds. I credit the weed-block paper for keeping the weeds almost completely out of the beds. DL...See MoreRaising mower during summer - bermuda grass
Comments (8)The idea behind raising mowing height in the dog days of summer is to keep from allowing the lawn to burn. What type of Bermuda do you have, is it a hybrid or standard variation? What height do you currently cut? How much and often are you watering? How established is the lawn? Where are you located? Have you read the Bermuda Bible by Texas Weed, if not, you need to. Google it and spend 30 minutes reading, it will change the appearance of your lawn forever. I have a hybrid Bermuda, I cut at 1". In July and August I may raise my mowing height by a 1/4" to 1/2" if it is excessively hot and or dry. Assuming you have a rotary mower place it on a level surface and measure the height from the blade to the surface. There should be adjustment levers on the front or back wheels or both. Raise them one notch and re measure, what is the difference from your first measurement to the new measurement? That is how much you have raised the mowing height....See MoreBermuda Grass Weed infestation in my Society Garlic bed - Ornamec
Comments (7)Thanks for all of the responses. I had somebody over yesterday and their suggestion was along the lines of using roundup judiciously and carefully when the wind isn't blowing. Perhaps part of the recent issue I've had is I let the grass take off and didn't maintain the bed for a while (the rest of life got in the way). As for the irrigation, I'm going to convert the entire zone that handles that bed (and some other places) from MP Rotator sprinklers to 1/4" dripline. My hope is between whatever weed abatement I do (whether pulling or roundup or some other approach), the spot-watering of the plants should help to prevent the kind of widespread growth I've been seeing. BTW, a very helpful tool in the battle was a $10 tool I puchased at Lowes. The handle is about the size of a hammer, however the head looks like a pick axe on one end and has three claws on the other. It works great for attacking the stuff on a spot basis - MUCH easier than the screw driver I was using....See MoreRaised Bed over Bermuda. Should I kill/till/remove/smother it???
Comments (2)Another suggestion. This will cause a delay of a year, but... Kimmsr is right - it takes at least THREE shots of glyphosate to kill Bermuda in the area you want to replant. Another option, if you are willing to wait, is to overlay the area NOW with a double layer of black plastic, weight it down thoruoughly around the periphery and down the center, and wait a year. The Bermuda underneath will emerge and slowly die under the lack of light and the heat produced by the plastic. It needs to go a couple of feet beyond the edge of the future raised bed to kill the Bermuda far enough away that it will not immediately re-invade. When you build the raised bed, use a DOUBLE layer of geo-textile fabric ("weed barrier") lapping up the inside of the raised bed to the top. This will cause most of any invading Bermuda to emerge on the outside edge of the raised bed where it can be dealt with. The double layer is necessary because Bermuda can zip right through a single. That is the best protection you can apply non-chemically against Bermuda without using glyphosate....See Moretete_a_tete
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