permaculture

[mIEKAL aND <dtv@mwt.net>]

Ive used clear too, Ive used carpeting, cardboard, ...  since the roots are 
down to
the clay subsoil 18 inches deep only hand removal has been successful.

Jerome Osentowski wrote:

> Not black, but clear plastic.
> >
>
> > 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