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  • From: Pat Meadows <pat AT meadows.pair.com>
  • To: Market Farming <market-farming AT lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: Re: [Market-farming] Quack grass
  • Date: Fri, 20 Feb 2009 15:40:45 -0500

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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In Pennsylvania's Northern Tier, northeastern USA.
Website: www.meadows.pair.com/articleindex.html

What you do makes a difference, and you have to decide
what kind of difference you want to make. - Jane Goodall




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