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Invading grass
Bar Holmes
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We've moved into a house where the garden has been relatively untouched for 5+ years, apart from the lawn being cut. Grass has grown in all of the flower beds and despite constantly pullng it up when it grows, we're still inundated with it and it's rife amongst our newly planted vegetable plot. Any ideas for getting rid of the grass please, short of taking all the soil out and putting in fresh?
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Digging it over methodically and weeding it out - including every bit of root you can find - good old fashioned gardening I'm afraid.
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
Unfortunately there's a gardener's saying "One year's seeds, seven years' weeds". So if your plot has been untended for 5 years there will be a lot of seeds in the soil. Dove is right - but you'll get there in the end!
Thank you both. Just hope my back can survive it - have back problems do weeding and digging often are problematic. We may the a hit on our pockets and get the soil in the plot removed so we can enjoy growing veg over the next few years! Thanks again.
Just a possibility it could be twitch grass which has a nest of white tangled roots,it can go quite deep and any part of the root left in the ground will regrow.
I wouldn't waste money getting soil removed and replaced, there'll always be seeds and bits of root to start again. Spend the money on employing someone to dig it for you
In the sticks near Peterborough
Thanks everyone. Sounds like we just have to get on with it and expect it'll take time!
Last edited: 04 July 2016 17:45:21