I’m no great garden expert, so i’m wondering if anyone can tell me if these little clumps of grass are winter grass, and therefore legitimate targets for destruction?
Apologies for the horizontal pics, but i’m no great pics wizard either.
huh, lilliputian grass^, grass here grows about twenty-five foot high
captain_spalding said:
I’m no great garden expert, so i’m wondering if anyone can tell me if these little clumps of grass are winter grass, and therefore legitimate targets for destruction?Apologies for the horizontal pics, but i’m no great pics wizard either.
Also no garden expert. Top one to me looks like buffalo grass. Bottom one looks like rye grass.
Get rid of the rye grass. Pronto.
Buffalo grass you can either get rid of or keep, I’d get rid of it.
I’m assuming that he has buffalo grass and he is worried about the weeds in the buffalo?
In which case both of the weeds in the buffalo are winter grasses that really should have been spotted and weeded before they made seed.
In the first photo apart from the grass is a far more difficult weed to control in buffalo lawns. It has the common names of wood sorrel and shamrock. Otherwise a member of the oxalis family.
Now if nature was allowed to be rather than have us attemppt to have control over it, all of the above would not even be here.
However, I look around me and see people buying weed and feed or using glyphosate to edge their kikuyu.
As a young lad It was get on your knees with a knife and dig out the burr medic or chuck superphosphate at it so that the grass outgrew the clovers. However, if the summer grasses or winter grasses were there, the super only made them grow faster than both the clovers and the desired buffalo lawn.
It does boil down to how big your lawn area is and how much work you want to do. Best idea is to either keep the lawns to smaller areas or make it all lawn.
Thanks, everyone, for the answers.
If it’s rye grass, then it’s doomed.
It’s only a small grassed area, so i’m happy to get down and dig the little buggers out one by one.
I understand that there’s some pre-germination sprays that can be used to prevent rye grass seeds from sprouting, so, much as i dislike sprays, i may have to consider that form of prevention for seeds already scattered.
captain_spalding said:
Thanks, everyone, for the answers.If it’s rye grass, then it’s doomed.
It’s only a small grassed area, so i’m happy to get down and dig the little buggers out one by one.
I understand that there’s some pre-germination sprays that can be used to prevent rye grass seeds from sprouting, so, much as i dislike sprays, i may have to consider that form of prevention for seeds already scattered.
Aye. One only needs to not watch the lawn for a couple of weeks and the bastards are up and away.
roughbarked said:
captain_spalding said:
Thanks, everyone, for the answers.If it’s rye grass, then it’s doomed.
It’s only a small grassed area, so i’m happy to get down and dig the little buggers out one by one.
I understand that there’s some pre-germination sprays that can be used to prevent rye grass seeds from sprouting, so, much as i dislike sprays, i may have to consider that form of prevention for seeds already scattered.
Aye. One only needs to not watch the lawn for a couple of weeks and the bastards are up and away.
A few comments pointed out (and rightly so)
that LAWNS were encouraged within Bow-Shot of the castles
to prevent enemy invaders from sneaking up on the manor house or castles
and became a status symbol that reflected the number of surfs employed to keep tended.
The payback of course was that the surfs and their family were alowed to take shelter within the fortifications
