Grasses........a question.

[Mimi]

I am thinking of buying some grasses for the borders in my garden.  My query is this ..... how do you weed them..   I have bits of grass sprouting in the borders so how do I get rid of the bits I want rid of and keep the ornamental grasses that I want to keep ???  Does that make sense ???

[Mimi]

[Palustris]

I wish I knew, our Daisy lawn is infested with couch and the only way I can see to deal with it, is to dig up every plant, clean the soil and start again.

[Merry Tiller]

Simplest way to get rid of couch in a lawn is to keep mowing it short, the couch don't like it

[Mrs Ava]

gggrrr, rotten job!  I had this in one of my evergreen grasses so it was a hands and knees, picking at the 'wrong' grass.  I can't see anyway of stopping it to be honest.  The worst thing ever for me with grass was when it infested my old chive patch.  Think we ate much more grass than we ever did chives!  Good luck Mimi!

[Palustris]

Merry Tiller. 1 The Daisy Lawn grasses are mostly over 6 feet tall.
2.    The 'lawn' here has been mown short for the last 10 years and it still has couch in it.
;D

[sandersj89]

How about this as an idea, when you plant the grasses do not remove from the pot but simply cut the bottom away from the pot, this will keep the couch roots out of the grass root ball?

It may stop the grasses spreading naturally but should make it easier to weed??

Just an idea.

Jerry

[Palustris]

Might work!. Tried that with the mint and after a couple ofyears the mint and the couch had swapped places, so now we have a bed full of mint and couch and buckets full of couch and mint.

[Merry Tiller]

Strange, it worked for me