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Help! grass is growing in my compost mulch
Liz113
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I recently accepted some well rotted grass clippings from a local cricket club which looked completely composted and made a beautiful mulch. A couple of months on, tiny blades of grass have started growing all over my veg beds. Is there anything I can do, other than pick every one out by hand?
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I've got cosmos seedlings growing all over my veg patch from my own home made compost ... not really a problem as I hoe the veg patch throughout the season to keep chickweed and other weeds under control. At least we tend to grow veg in rows so we can tell which are the seedlings and which are the weedlings.
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
thanks Dovefromabove ...
I remember my first ever boss telling me the best weedkiller on the market was a stainless steel hoe used on a dry sunny day.
If only the dry sunny day would appear to order Hosta
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
If it's just grass, a thick mulch of straw or other material will keep them down. Put down wet newspaper between your rows, and mulch over top that. Likely just some grass seeds were in the compost, and without light, they won't germinate.