permaculture

["Jerome Osentowski" <jerome@crmpi.org>]

We use the clear to burn it out then sheetmulch with at least a foot of 
mulch of different materials, and it don't come back.  I guess you will just
have to come see for your self.  jerome  ps just pulled a basket this
morning for the rabbits, sure glad I did not get rid if it all.
--
Jerome Osentowski, Director
Central Rocky Mountain Permaculture Institute
PO Box 631
Basalt, CO 81621   U.S.A.

Tel/fax (970) 927-4158    E mail: jerome@crmpi.org

For more information, please visit our web site at <<www.crmpi.org>>


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>From: mIEKAL aND <dtv@mwt.net>
>To: permaculture@lists.ibiblio.org
>Subject: Re: [permaculture] Broadminded thinking?
>Date: Thu, Apr 11, 2002, 1:38 PM
>

> 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
>
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