What's this and how do I kill it?????

[Jazz Ad]

The way I see it, Roundup and associated herbicides should never ever approach a garden. They kill your soil and turn it into sterile dust. Earthworms, mycorrhiza, bacteria, algua, everything that makes the ground a living environment is destroyed.
If you respect the components of your soil and choose a grass that fits it, you should never have to resort to such extreme measures.

 

[walterw]

i vote you pave it all and lay astroturf

 

[Tom Bomb]

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.

It's a crying shame…. Don't tell me your problems

Getting serious for a second, the Bradleys are famous, more or less, and an adapted version of their Bradley method is currently 'best practice' here and elsewhere, and practiced widely with bipartisan support in many cases. It's good for the garden, man.

If you want a bit of back-story, you could start here - Invalid Link Removed and then here - Invalid Link Removed - or just listen-in to the radio show via these download links; parts Invalid Link Removed and Invalid Link Removed.

I love the smell of reason in the morning, by the lung-full. Don't you?

 

[Fishheadjoe]

Make each patch a golf hole. Dig out the crap weed, put in a putting surface and make it a golf hole. Get enough and you can play a round in your back yard (I recommend a beer a hole) and not have to worry about driving or green fees.
Yah, I'm a thinker...
Fishheadjoe

 

[DiabolusInMusic]

Napalm!

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Woah, that is just crazy. Somebody may get hurt.

I would just stick to Agent Orange.

 

[Jazz Ad]

Perfectly harmless.

 

[DiabolusInMusic]

Perfectly harmless.

And not a weed in site!

 

[Robroy]

The only reason I care is that it is growing where my centipede grass used to be. It is taking over and doesn't look nearly as good as grass does. It's like a million green trolls with bushy hair are poking their heads up in my yard. If it looked like grass I wouldn't care. This stuff looks like crap.

Where I live, it's wild garlic. It pops out first thing in spring. When you mow your lawn it stays out of the way until fall, when it comes back again with a vengeance. The biggest problem is after you cut your lawn it smells like a salad.

It seemed cool when we first moved to KY, since it is VERY edible and quite tasty (a cross between garlic and onion), but like wild blackberries, they are small and a hassle.

But here's my point: the way to kill it is to kill EVERYTHING and start fresh. You may have the same issue.

 

[pedroims]

I have Trugreen taking care of all fertilizer/ weed issues, IMO worth it.

 

[DwaynieAD]

What's funny is that I am seriously considering that for the back acre or so of woods. I have heard they can eat briars and everything.

The problem here is that this stuff is in patches all over the yard, and I imagine anything that eats soda cans won't have a problem devouring my actual grass....which I would like to keep. I am honestly considering reseeding the whole property with something easier to care for than centipede and also chokes out weeds better.

Combination of creeping red fescue, tall fescue, Kentucky blue grass, and perennial rye grass makes a pretty darn good all around lawn

 

[Howlin' Hanson]

And goats don't actually eat tin cans. They do like the glue that holds the labels on, though, so they APPEAR to be eating cans.

And we have this stuff we call Velcro Weed, and the wife insists on pulling it by hand. Not getting very much pulled this year, and it's sticking to my socks....

 

[Aberdumbie]

So I am out here doing my semi annual yard greening ritual when suddenly this thread pops in my head.... Sad thing about being my age. Twenty years ago pretty girls would have been popping in my head.. But I digress...... Two Fingers it occurred to me you are a Carolina boy. And not long ago I saw a billboard put up by Clemson (for the life of me I cannot remember the office name)... It was an agricultural office... But the billboard was all about this non native vegetation infestation. It read something like.... If you spot this vegetation notify our department immediately sort of a message.... Now I know this is like enough info to send a person on a maddening chase in the dark and I am sorry. However I am going to try to remember where I saw that billboard and see if I can get you some useful info. Anyway, it might be a starting place...

 

[Aberdumbie]

 

[Passinwind]

What's funny is that I am seriously considering that for the back acre or so of woods. I have heard they can eat briars and everything.

The key word is "everything." Link Removed

You can just rent goats for however long you need them out here.

 

[Killed_by_Death]

how do I kill it?