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What's this and how do I kill it?????
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Looks like plain old couch grass, nothing out of the ordinary but hard to control.
If it is, you can kill it by pouring delicious chemicals inside the soil on which your grandchildren will play.
There are greener solutions though, like randomly plating marigolds across the filed that will make it disappear within a couple years.
If it is, you can kill it by pouring delicious chemicals inside the soil on which your grandchildren will play.
There are greener solutions though, like randomly plating marigolds across the filed that will make it disappear within a couple years.
Well, I was going to say that it just looked like grass that was so long, it had gone to seed (like my grass used to - until I let the lawn die) - but you know what it is, now. Come to think of it - it is grass that's gone to seed, isn't it? Personally, I'd be tempted to just mow it, and see if, like 10cc said, it will die out later in the year. If it doesn't; well, you could always spray it then... plus, if you leave it, there's always a chance it will spread to that annoying neighbor's lawn...
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I think you should sit on the porch eating cheese and sucking on a beer while someone else kills it for you.
slobake
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Haha, I only say that because my "yard" is 2% grass and 98% a mixture of hundreds of species of weeds. I live in the country, so I just say "if it's green mow it down."
I hate yard maintenance. Someday my whole yard will be green concrete corner to corner....
Sounds like my yard.....
slobake
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slobake
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Yup, my whole house will probably fit inside of one of your walk in closets. It is probable worth three times more than yours as well. That is insane, good thing I bought when real estate was cheap. It's the unions and rich people I tell ya!If you come help me build a four acre deck I'll provide all the TNC you can eat!
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Yup, my whole house will probably fit inside of one of your walk in closets. It is probable worth three times more than yours as well. That is insane, good thing I bought when real estate was cheap. It's the unions and rich people I tell ya!
Here will this help?
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Ha! Actually, my house isn't huge. But my yard is (to me anyway). It's not a golf course, but it's a pretty good baseball field....or a couple of football fields if you cut them up.
When we first looked at the property the idea of such a huge yard out in the country seemed amazing. Now I would like to pave all but a small spot out back. Even then I'm sure I would be walking around spraying Roundup on weeds popping up through the cracks in the pavement.
I bet your surroundings are amazing in their own way as well though. Your town is definitely on my bucket list. I gotta get my bike legs ready first before I take on those hills.
Don't know if its been mentioned yet but Roundup kills everything, if you only have 2% grass then your not loosing that much. Nuke it and start all over
Yeah that was another guy that only had "2% grass" left. I have four acres of grass with random blobs and patched of this crap.
The weed invasion is in random patches among actual grass. I would have to pin them up on random patches or let them eat the real grass too and start all over... on four acres......which would be pretty expensive I suppose.
I've never heard of this as a published method, but this is how I have been attacking my invasive weeds in the woods. I have plenty of spots that will require goats in the future.
slobake
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Oh snap. That's a whole lotta mowing. I had a landlord that rented goats to eat up weeds. Owned an empty lot next to the property and the goats hung out for maybe 2, 3 days, something like that. I'm not sure about price, but itd be close to zero manual labor. And I think goats will eat most anything, so you're good there.
yep. Couch has an extensive root system storing much energy for recovery from repeated topping off that would kill lesser grasses. I am not even sure if Roundup gets rid of it. Continuous manual cultivation of vegetables, removing the roots to burning disestablishes it from garden but I think you're looking at goats and then regular mowing.
