Healthy soil and sustainable growing

["Laura McKenzie" <laurabrownmckenzie@worldnet.att.net>]

I googled Johnson Grass first just to make sure I knew what I was talking 
about.  Its the same stuff I have.

   I had it in my wide row plot which is a parcel about 16 feet by 30 feet. 
Two times in one summer and two times in the next summer I got a fork and 
went to it pulling the stuff all out.  Once in a while it half heartedly 
tried to come back and I pulled that little bit again.  I also put leaves 
down over the entire bed for several winters to a depth of about 20 inches 
and added calcium to the bed thinking that Johnson Grass probably indicated 
a calcium problem.  Last year I put the entire bed in rye until February. 
In THAT bed I don't have it anymore.  I do have it in one more spot in 
another garden bed which is 12 feet by 150 feet.  I'm still working on it 
there but really haven't made much of an effort at it yet.  Again, I'm 
pulling and mulching. I make certain that bed is planted in something I can 
use a lot of mulch around like tomatoes, gourds, pumpkins, squash.

   Not having a large farm, I can't speak to what to do if you have a field 
of the stuff but I can say its been my experience that bermuda/wiregrass is 
much harder to deal with.


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