[Market-farming] Quack grass
Pat Meadows
pat at meadows.pair.com
Fri Feb 20 15:40:45 EST 2009
On Thu, 19 Feb 2009 17:27:01 -0700, you wrote:
>This reminds me of a tale Charles Walters told about an ag teacher telling
>his class how to control nasty grasses - cover with plastic to heat kill the
>tops, then till the soil, remove every tiny piece of root, let the roots
>dry, then burn them and then BE VERY CAREFUL HOW YOU DISPOSE OF THE ASHES!
>
This is exactly right. Thanks! :)
And when your garden is surrounded - on all sides - by grass (which is
really mostly witchgrass) - it's very difficult to keep it from coming
back. You know, the stuff has roots that go many yards under the
ground.... plus it makes seeds and they blow around.
Pat
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