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Bermuda grass must DIE!
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beachplant 9b (
beachplant@excite.com) on
Thu, Jul 15, 10 at 9:45
| Anyone know how to kill bermuda grass in a bed full of cactus and agaves? You can't pull it without getting stabbed or putting out and eye thanks to the agaves. I've sprayed a couple of different things on it next to the bed with no luck killing it. I don't want to kill my cactus. I'd ask on the cactus/succulent forum but I'm exhausted from all their bickering and lack of constructive help. Now I just post and tell them they are rude.
Tally HO! |
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RE: Bermuda grass must DIE!
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| Hi Tally! Grass-B-Gone works well for me. It takes a couple of weeks for Bermuda grass to die, but die it does. Nothing is affected by it except grass. If the Burmuda grass has been there long enough to produce seed you might want to put preemergent weed killing granules down to prevent the seeds from germinating. Those two products should take care of your problem and you won't have to get stuck in the process :-) |
RE: Forgot to say ..
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| I forgot to say that Ortho makes Grass-B-Gone, there are other brands of grass only killer also, and my HEB carries it in a 24 oz spray bottle for about $6.50. |
RE: Bermuda grass must DIE!
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| Fusilade should work but I would do a test spray on a small area to see what happens. I doubt if you will find cactus listed on the label as either a tolerant or not tolerant plant. Fusilade will probably be the AI in the majority of these type of herbicides. The nice thing is it is not just for Bermuda. |
RE: Bermuda grass must DIE!
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I,too, have had good luck with Grass b Gone. I've used it to spray at the base of roses where the bermuda is difficult for me to eradicate. I had to repeat the treatment a couple of times,but it was effective in ridding me of the bermuda in that area.
Molly |
RE: Bermuda grass must DIE!
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| Good luck with that. I've been trying to get rid of some in a flower bed for two years. I was on here bragging a few weeks ago that it was finally gone. Guess what came back about two weeks ago? |
RE: Bermuda grass must DIE!
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| You could use roundup but use a large piece of cardboard to wrap around the cactus so you don't get over spray on it. I have done that in my flower bed for a particularly bad patch of grass that I couldn't get rid of and used the foam setting on a totally calm day and just sprayed it on one part of it and it killed it down to the roots. Just be very careful to not get it on your other plants. |
RE: Bermuda grass must DIE!
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| Maybe this idea would help? It is designed to make it easier to apply herbicide to a specific sprout of grass, without having to get right up next to the grass. There was an article in "Texas Gardener" a few years back, about getting rid of nutgrass and bermuda grass. The author took a 'grabber', for example the norpro long-arm grabber at www.acehardware.com, and glued pieces of sponge at the inside tips of the pinchers. When the pinchers were closed, the sponge pieces touched. The gentleman applied herbicide to the sponge pieces. Then he pinched the ground-level of a spike of grass with the herbicide coated sponges, and pulled the sponges up to the top of the grass, applying herbicide on most sides of the grass from ground to leaftips in one fell swoop. Can't remember the gentleman author's name, alas. The magazine cover had a picture of a man pointing a shotgun at nutgrass. Good luck! |
RE: Bermuda grass must DIE!
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| You can dab it on with a paint brush too. You don't have to get every leaf. Once its in the grass and it kills boths ends. |
RE: Bermuda grass must DIE!
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Thanks for all the ideas! I'm off to get grass b gone tonight. I love the idea with the grabber! That would work for things you can't reach so well.
Tally HO! |
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