Why QUACKGRASS is such a huge pain in the… garden.
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- Опубликовано: 30 сен 2024
- And here’s another perfect example of why rhizomatous grass, like the quackgrass we’ve been battling for the past few years, is such a huge pain in the garden. This is a rhizome, one those tough underground stems that quackgrass uses to start new daughter plants where you least expect them. You see, each rhizome has the potential to sprout new leaves every couple of inches along its length. But you may be thinking, it’s just a little underground stem, how bad could this really get? Well, here I am carefully digging up an infestation that came in from just outside our fence. And all of this came from one single rhizome over the course of just a week or so. It breached our defenses, silently crept along under our mulch, and then by the time we noticed it, it was already too late. Plus rhizomes are also storage organs. And so, if I were to accidentally miss even a tiny piece, it would have all the energy it needs to get the whole process started all over again. But this time, from inside the fence.
So the best way I have found is to have chickens eat all the green. Then use a manure fork to pull up and expose the rhizomes. Then put some water on it to stimulate growth and keep doing that until it is gone
the only way to deal with it is to build forest gardens
Exactly - these grasses cannot compete with trees. The shade from the trees is too much for grasses and they die.
What do you do about the sunlight for your plants?
They all get enough sunlight, forest gardens needs constant maintenance & interventions otherwise it'll turn into a jungle
These types of grasses THRIVE under traditional sheet-mulching, ugh! They love growing under cardboard especially. The only thing that keeps them at bay is SHADE from thickly planted beds.
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You know, I've been studying a little bit in permaculture and have found some persistant weeds were actually helping out by pulling nutrients up from deep because of super long roots. Might want to see what purpose the quackgrass is performing. Dandions pull up calcium when top layers are deficient, leave die replenish top layer calcium. They fade away when they have 'fixed' the area.
They're FANTASTIC pioneers, and though don't fix nitrogen on their own very well, they are great companions for plants that do. They don't have taproots so they aren't making available nutrition that other plants can't, but they prevent soil erosion, they create a miniature ecosystem at the soil level which is shaded, kept cool, retains some moisture, provides a habitat for thousands of various species, etc. Especially when fully grown at 3-4 feet.
People always tout the great forests that once existed, and they should, but most forget about how important a role the grasslands have played in creating the rich biodiversity that once existed here (and could again!).
Those rhizome tips that shoot out are very hard and sharp. Im always poking my family with em. Lol they hate it.
i would've said pain in the grass but you do you
Just grow sunchokes with them they will just fight to the death or mint.
I put sunchokes in my raised garden bed last year. That spot is now Cherokee Tomatoes. All I had to do is harvest the rhizome bulbs I grew them for. Then I spent a little time pulling up their shoots as they grew every 3-4 days or so while my tomatoes plants grew. Now the foliage has them completely choked out. Occasionally I come back and see one pop out between the leaves. But 2 seconds later I pull it straight out no problem. Really hasn't been too hard at all.
@@MichaelSmith-ku7ki I’m the first place he will never will be able to grow tomatoes I know sunchokes can choke out tomatoes but the grass probably would already I was saying plant sunchokes to fight with the grass to death he probably can’t grow tomatoes in thoes areas anyways.
nature trying to survive. self preservation
we should plant on the border of deserts
I made the mistake of tilling in my garden when I first moved in, only to later find out it was rhizome grass like this. All I had done was chop up and distribute the rhizomes so they could easily and widespread reproduce... nightmares...
Yikes, sorry to hear that! 😣
Are you still dealing with the problem, or have you since solved it? Either way, I'd be curious to hear how it went / how it's going.
Just imagine the environment this thing evolved in. It's so hard on surviving it grows meters underground and every piece had ability to restart the population. Meaning where it came from this much was needed to survive...
In California we have crabgrass, and it does the same thing I found that you have to mulch very heavily and stay on top of it don't allow anything to grow above ground, and it will eventually die back somewhat.
You're lucky to have such loose soil, imagine having it in clay soil😑
That's my case.
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Hey had clap soil in the beginning and took years to change the soil into something good
it’s not as bad; just brush glyposate slurry one one end and it affects the whole plant without overspray or collateral
That's what I'm talking about!
Everyone tells me my grass looks amazing, but all I can notice is the damn quick grass spreading everywhere! 15,000sq ft, not sure what to do at this point other than burning it all out and starting all over.
Called Couch grass here and it's a constant battle. The way I have stopped it getting into my allotment is to dig it out, put wood chip mulch 1ft deep all around the outside of the plot and weed that a couple of times a year. It still gets in but I have gone from multiple wheel barrow loads per section (seriously, it got bad) to using a seed tray.
You need to outweed the weed and plant something that will directly eat it and take up its space, like a bunch of onions or garlic (root vegetables) or maybe even some gourd or squash. Maybe herbs
I have a rhizome gràss in my back yard & it’s a F’ing nightmare.
It retook some raised garden beds because it crept underneath and poked through the weed barrier. It grows over my fence (from my neighbours side into mine) it grows into my shed…. It’s horrid stuff
I have the same problem with the trumpet vine I planted 12 years ago. The garden tag said it was a new non invasive variety. It took 10 years to start suckering. 15-20 ft from the crown. Every root segment that get chopped up and remains underground sprouts a new vine.
Paid 2 people to remove such a plant. Came home several hours later and they had built the edgingbwall. Went to put first plant in and pulled out 10 feet of such under ground " stems". Was pissed from the very beginning because i knew at least one of thev2 should have known.
The house I grew up in had a problem where our garden & the gardens to either side were infested with Japanese Knot Weed.
You can dig out the stems that pop above ground all you want, but unless you're willing to dig up your lawn with at least a mini-digger (like we did) then you aren't going to get the massive interconnected system of roots that lie beneath the surface.
I wonder if you could dig up some of the rhizomes and without detaching them, put them in a bowl of salt water? Or vinegar?
Like sweet potato. Easiest plant to grow. You can grow it from any part of the plant.
I'm dealing with nutgrass/nutsedge in my garden
Ugh, sorry to hear that.
Roundup?
We have st augustine here and it's awful. When I see other people (in videos) scooping sections of grass out with a shovel I'm so envious.
Sounds like Bermuda grass? Same horrible stuff??
Yep. You're boned. Same with me I've got the same problem.
Worse when u have them on your lawn. My only solution is roundup weed and grass killer
True
Is the grass a pain or is your pain caused your attempted genocide?
This is a product of mowing around your garden.
I feel your pain, this grass sucks
my gardens are full of it
Our Cowboys , Ranchers and farmers in the southwest called it everbearing pastures ! God was looking after their needs.
Hum funny how your god does things. Wonder why he does nothing while every year over 8 million people starve to death?
Hate that grass so much
You definitely do not want to use roundup on it!
Why not?
@@whenpigsfly3271 you'll kill it
@@whenpigsfly3271 roundup was proven to 9 libtards in the gay Bay to cause cancer, didn't you know that? Monsanto, that evil corporation developed it! It's everywhere in our food! Farmers spray wheat and it's in our bread from the flour! Don't believe any scientist! If you ask any libtard they'll tell you everything wrong with roundup!
When i have a little extra time, i clean the juciest rhizomes, boil them in water for at least an hour and drink the precious nutrients while feeling a little better 😈. i supose the resulting tea could be also be given back to the soil🤔
You can eat this
I'm battling it too! Good luck with your fight!!!
These are the demons I fight daily
Ugh, sorry to hear that.
Best grass ever LoL always stays green weather proof hard to kill and low maintenance 😆
Also kills the environment yay
Not gonna lie, when he said quackgrass, I just started scrolling again. lmao
just like poison ivy
Yeah. Got a ton of that here.
I call it tapeworm grass