permaculture

[mIEKAL aND <dtv@mwt.net>]

Ive left black plastic over quack grass areas for several years & still it'll 
grow
back within a month or two.  the only way we remove it here is by hand.  Ive 
read
numerous accounts that a pig tractor does wonders for removing quack grass 
but have
never seen it in operation.  We make a great coffee substitute with quackgrass
roots, just dry them & grind them.. tastes remarkably like cafix.  mIEKAL

Jerome Osentowski wrote:

> Rick, In replaceing glyposphates, we use two layer of clear plastic to
> solarize the quackgrass, which will come back through sheetmulch.  We leave
> it on for a month, and have had good results.  I have wiped out much of the
> quackgrass here and have only a few reserves ,that I manage as fodder for my
> rabbits. It is 18% protien, and the only green in good supply at this time.
> It also has many medicinal properties, helps with the prostate.  So don't
> nuke all those weeds.  jerome
> --
> Jerome Osentowski, Director
> Central Rocky Mountain Permaculture Institute