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Posted by Eggs Zachtly on September 5, 2006, 5:35 am
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> Eggs Zachtly wrote:
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>>Dilbert Firestorm said:
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>>>anyone know how to get rid of this?
>>>
>>>I've got torpedo grass in the island garden.
>>>
>>>I thought about covering the island up with old newspapers & plastic
>>>mulch. but then I read that TG just goes through it.
>>>
>>>http://experts.about.com/q/Lawns-725/Torpedo-grass.htm
>>>
>>>it mentions using sugar or baking soda as an organic remedy.
>>>
>>>kind of an odd way to do this.
>>>
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>>Sugar will feed microbes that help keep the soil healthy, nothing more. The
>>theory is; weeds don't like "healthy" soils, and thrive in poor ones. So,
>>if you keep the soil in good shape, you won't have the weed. True, to some
>>extent, but sugar's a rather expensive treatment, for the results you're
>>likely to get.
>>
>>Panicum repens is sensitive to both glyphosate and imazapyr. Both are
>>broad-spectrum herbicides, and will most likely kill any herbaceous growth
>>they touch. If the P. repens is in an area with plants you'd like to keep,
>>you'd best stick with pulling by hand. If you don't mind starting that bed
>>over, then several treatments of the above chemicals (according to strength
>>recommendations on packaging) should do the trick.
>>
>>HTH
>>
> are you familiar with fulisade herbicide brand?
Yes.
> will that do?
I told you the two that I'm sure will kill it. Fusilade II *may* do the
trick, but as it's more of a selective herbicide, the chances are less. A
controlled burn will also eliminate the weed.
>
> btw, do you know if putting plastic sheet & mulch on top of the soil
> will keep out TG?
Probably, but it's not a species I have to deal with here, so I really
can't say. If you've got the room where it's growing to lay down plastic,
then why don't you have room to spray the area with a broad-spectrum
herbicide?
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