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Is this Yorkshire Fog?

debbie.baileydebbie.bailey Posts: 3
in The potting shed
does anyone know if this is Yorkshire Fog and if so how do I get rid of it please?
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  • hogweedhogweed Posts: 4,053
    I've never heard of that. Do you mean the broad leaved grass in the pic?
    'Optimism is the faith that leads to achievement' - Helen Keller
  • debbie.baileydebbie.bailey Posts: 3
    Yes I do.  I am unsure what is just guessed having looked on google.  The grass is courser and thicker than the rest of the grass.  Was also wondering if it may be couch.
  • nutcutletnutcutlet Posts: 27,445
    I think you'd have to let a piece grow to ID. It's more YF than Couch to look at there but could be other


    In the sticks near Peterborough
  • josusa47josusa47 Posts: 3,530
    edited June 2018
    Difficult to identify grasses without the flower, and not always easy then, some of them are so alike.  Yorkshire fog is so called because of the visual effect of the massed flowers.  If it's couch, it will have long whitish horizontal underground stems, that's how it spreads. 

     BTW, is there a definitive way to pronounce it?  Cooch, or cowch?  I've heard both.

    As for getting rid, I've got some tufts of coarse, fast growing stuff in my apology for a lawn.  When I get time, I'm just going to dig them out, and fill the holes with fresh compost and general purpose lawn seed.  I can't think how else you'd do it really.
  • debbie.baileydebbie.bailey Posts: 3
    Thanks for your responses.  There are no flowers as yet so as you say difficult to identify.
    i pronounce it couch not sure if that is correct or not 😀
  • LynLyn Posts: 23,190
    edited June 2018
    We pronounce it ‘cooch’  but we are from the West Country😀😊
    Gardening on the wild, windy west side of Dartmoor. 

  • hogweedhogweed Posts: 4,053
    Yes, it is 'cooch' grass here in my part of the country. 
    'Optimism is the faith that leads to achievement' - Helen Keller
  • IamweedyIamweedy Posts: 1,364
    Yes! the thick grass stems are couch grass and the feathery stuff is Yorkshire fog. You must have been looking in my back garden.

    I do not bother a lot with my lawn The resident lawn mower does that job. As long as it's green it will do me. 



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  • Mary370Mary370 Posts: 2,003
    I'd call it couch grass too
  • DovefromaboveDovefromabove Posts: 88,147
    Cooch in East Anglia 

    Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.





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