What Did You Do In The Garden?

[Dirtmechanic]

[i answered this on SS too ]

@baymule when pulling nutgrass are you going after the roots too? this late in the season there are likely roots with nuts on them, so you pretty much have to get after those or the nut grass will be back. so in effect, while weeding you are helping the problem, but if you want it to be more effective you have to do some rooting around.

more effective for pulling without rooting around would be in the early spring, but also as often as possible, but then you have to keep at it consistently and as the season wears on it gets very hard to keep up with such things.

i took out a patch this past summer that had been trying to take over part of a garden and had been gradually expanding because i kept topping it off but not being consistent enough with keeping after it. i sat there for a while and dug up the entire area and then went through the dirt by hand getting all the roots. since then i've had a few sprouts try to come back in that location, but instead of just taking the tops off i also dug around and found all the related pieces of roots that caused the sprouts. it has not returned this fall but next spring i expect to see a few sprouts from seeds or bits of root still hiding out, but that should be the last of it if i can manage to get all those parts out.

alas, eliminating it around here in the entire yard is nearly impossible because people kill off the cattails in the ditches using herbicides and the nutgrass comes in and takes over any chance it gets.

p.s. love puppypiles!

Nutgrass is proof that you cannot burn the surface of the earth and stop nutgrass.

Slow, Slow, chemical effects. Nuts have a different view about chemistry or what you can put into their veins. Each nut actually inhibits transmission of chemistry through the veinous system. There is much fantasy about this idea, even movies.

 

[baymule]

yes I gently pull the grass, the roots and nuts are a web. I can usually get 3-4 linked together. It is a job to pull that stuff.

 

[Trish Stretton]

Today, I finally confronted that pile of 'compost' sitting in the parking area.
It had started off quite well and was supposed to have gone to the dump due to having citrus prunings containing our native borer pest, but....the next day I had to take mum to a specialist appointment which took all day, only to come home to find that we were going into lockdown in two days...so I had to take mum shopping to make sure she had everything.....and its pretty much been raining off and on and sometimes non stop since then.

Yesterday, I had chopped and dropped the Bears breeches that were growing in the old chicken forage yard, so I decided to make a big compost pile right slap dab in the middle of it...so thats were all the rubbishy stuff went, along with all the 'bee flower' plants from the vegie garden.

Got both front and back lawns mowed as well, but had to wait till late afternoon for the grass to dry out so it didnt clog up the mower.

 

[Marie2020]

Nutgrass is proof that you cannot burn the surface of the earth and stop nutgrass.

Slow, Slow, chemical effects. Nuts have a different view about chemistry or what you can put into their veins. Each nut actually inhibits transmission of chemistry through the veinous system. There is much fantasy about this idea, even movies. View attachment 37400

I've never heard of nut grass before.

Still so much to learn

 

[flowerbug]

I've never heard of nut grass before.

Still so much to learn

otherwise known as nutsedge

there are several different kinds, i think we have several of them here. all of them a pain in the butt to get rid of if you are trying to do it without using herbicides.

 

[baymule]

I've never heard of nut grass before.

Still so much to learn

Lucky you. Nut grass came directly out of Pandora's Box!

 

[Rhodie Ranch]

"Tenacity" kills yellow nutsedge. But not the purple type. I have used it on my lawn (for just a few spots) but on the other place that I'm the mower/blower, there is alot. I've gotten two applications in so far and the Tenacity has hit it hard.

 

[Marie2020]

Lucky you. Nut grass came directly out of Pandora's Box!

So do you believe that these putrid slugs have transpired from that same Box? I could throttle Pandora

 

[Cosmo spring garden]

I covered some beds with a fabric because we may get a a frost over the weekend. We have had 2 days of rain and all the rye I showed is growing and it's beautiful!
I had some onions that were sprouting so I stuck them in a cold frame. Does anyone know if they will survive the winter?

 

[flowerbug]

I covered some beds with a fabric because we may get a a frost over the weekend. We have had 2 days of rain and all the rye I showed is growing and it's beautiful!
I had some onions that were sprouting so I stuck them in a cold frame. Does anyone know if they will survive the winter?

how big are they? if they are tiny and it freezes they may not make it, but if they are bigger and have some root mass below the soil that stays alive then they may regrow after some cold damage. i'm also sure that the variety of the onion can play a role in how frost/cold hardy an onion might be.

i don't mulch onions here and some survive. i'm doing an experiment with a lot of old seeds to see what those will tolerate this winter. either they will get selected for cold hardyness or some may be lucky. i think here that having snow cover helps a lot for things that i don't mulch.