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  • From: "Lisa Rollens" <rollens@fidnet.com>
  • To: "permaculture" <permaculture@lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: Re: [permaculture] Crabgrass, Bermuda grass, etc.
  • Date: Mon, 18 Jun 2007 14:46:25 -0500

Yes, Roxann, that is what I am doing...making rhizome barriers...suggested in "Edible forest Gardens". Jacke suggests the ditch and then putting a barrier in it...metal or plastic, etc., on a slant towards the area being protected. I have Bermuda in the yard and in the adjoining corral. It is great in the corral because it keeps the sandy soil from eroding. Ironically, I am trying to spread it in the corral and get rid of it in the yard! Maybe there is something Permaculturally wrong with that...I don't know, but I am amused, even as I dig! But, with my experience in the south, I know that planting in all that Berrmuda grass will never work.

Are you getting rain down there? It's wonderful here...raining even as I type. My weeds are growing like mad. I have gotten drenched to the skin several times this spring...wonderful.

For those of you who do not know our area...it is almost in a perpetual drought. Since I have been here, I have overseeded pastures and planted cover crops every spring and fall. Most has not sprouted, or when the fall rains finally come and the seeds sprout, it is too late for the plants to grow enough to be freeze hardy. And, of course, we had that severe freeze the week of Easter that we are almost recovered from. We always enjoy rain here!

Lisa, in the Ozarks, USA


----- Original Message ----- From: "roxann" <roxann@ancientearthwisdom.com>
To: "permaculture" <permaculture@lists.ibiblio.org>
Sent: Monday, June 18, 2007 2:05 PM
Subject: Re: [permaculture] Crabgrass, Bermuda grass, etc.


Lisa, when I lived in Louisiana, all we had was bermuda in the yard. The only method I found for keeping it out of my beds was to dig trenches all the way around each bed. Once it was gotten out by hand from the bed, it was easy to keep it from returning because the plant would creep down into the trenches and I could see it easier before it crossed over into the bed. i usually kept the trenches mulched and that would make pulling it easy. definitely not low maintenence, but it did work. i'd hate to have this problem in a large scale area.

roxann, nw ar

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