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  • From: "askpv" <askpv@ozemail.com.au>
  • To: "permaculture" <permaculture@franklin.oit.unc.edu>
  • Subject: RE: the front lawn - don't be rash!!! use your brain before your back
  • Date: Tue, 28 Mar 2000 09:38:06 +1000


well i know people may be just joking but
i am a scared enough to add my two bobs right now.

I don't use everything at my disposal for two reasons:
1. good scientific practice measures the impact of one thing at a time
2. black plastic, herbicides and cement are not environmentally responsible.
I realise the 'green' may not be as strong where you are and here many
greenie's niavely
promote herbicides too but minimal intervention is the most sustainable.

the first thing i do is get to know my enemy.

i have couch grass and kikuyu amongst many other weeds.
couch needs poor soil with low organic matter and a lot of sun, it can be
shaded out
with runners such as sweet potato.
kikuyu, now that's my forte:
it hate being let to grow long! it needs to be mowed. if you let it grow
long
just above knee height and THEN mow - it stresses badly, and often dies.
I sheet mulch very successfully over both grasses AS LONG as
i cut the feeding runners from outside and AS long as
i set up the bed from a secure edge - there is no point trying to put a
garden
bed in a sea of weeds like kikuyu and expect it to fight all fronts.
April

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-----Original Message-----
From: Scott Pittman [mailto:pci@permaculture-inst.org]
Sent: Wednesday, 22 March 2000 1:40
To: permaculture
Subject: Re: the front lawn


At 04:56 PM 3/21/00 -0800, you wrote:
>Dawn wrote:
> >My parents moved into a new place in IA and want to remove some grass
>to plant a garden and flowers. Does anyone know a good way to get rid
>of
>grass for good without herbicides?
>
> >Black plastic hasn't worked. We left parts of the lawn covered for a
>year one time but when the ground below contacts air and light again
>the
>grass comes back from the root. She got a rototiller and was thinking
>of tilling it under. Any ideas would be greatly appreciated!
>
>
>Dawn, since you're new to permaculture, I'll provide you a little
>distance learning:
>
>Use all weapons at your disposal: herbicides, black plastic, and
>rototilling. Cement is also helpful. This is what we call "stacking
>functions"
>
>Integrating Pleidian guidance from Zone 6, chant to the weed devas (or
>"wevas"), smoke a bunch of tobacco, and then relax atop your
>karkeloffen until it's time to coppice the basket willows. This is the
>window of opportunity when the "designah becomes the reclinah".
>
>Enjoy!
>verne
>

I heard explosives are good, too
arina




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