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This year, we surprisingly have a large-leaved type of grass in our lawn. What is it, and how can we get rid of it so that we have only fine grass again? See photos. Thank you
This year, we surprisingly have a large-leaved type of grass in our lawn. What is it, and how can we get rid of it so that we have only fine grass again? See photos. Thank you
Baustelle2016 schrieb:
That is quackgrass. Congratulations. The best method is to dig it out. Fertilizing and scarifying won’t do much against it. This type of grass usually grows faster than the surrounding lawn. If you are somewhat consistent, you can get rid of the quackgrass temporarily. However, it will probably return later as airborne seeds.
Best regardsDigging it out... we have so much of it that if I dug it all out, I’d end up with a cratered landscape 🙂 I guess the only option is to repair with topsoil and then reseed those areas?
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Knallkörper5 May 2018 09:04I tend to agree more with Curly and don’t think it’s couch grass. You could start by applying fertilizer and overseeding to help the finer grass varieties grow back. I’m not a fan of herbicides, and they probably won’t work against couch grass if they’re safe for the lawn. You could use glyphosate to kill everything and then till the soil, but then you won’t have a fully green lawn again until September.
Knallkörper schrieb:
I tend to agree with Curly and don’t think this is quackgrass. You could start by applying fertilizer and overseeding to encourage the finer grass varieties to grow back. I’m not a fan of herbicides, and they probably wouldn’t help against quackgrass anyway if they spare the grass. You could use glyphosate to clear everything and then till the soil, but then your lawn won’t be really green again until September.I carefully dug up samples from three different spots; attached are the photos. I was expecting to see the typical long white roots characteristic of quackgrass, but I can’t find any. So, are these definitely not quackgrass?
This is not couch grass.
Couch grass consists of individual shoots that spread efficiently through rhizomes.
You can only get rid of it by digging out every tiny piece of the root or by otherwise creating a barrier, for example with a dense lawn layer.
A lawn is made up of a collection of grasses. I also believe this is a type of grass that is now spreading more than others due to minimal maintenance.
Couch grass consists of individual shoots that spread efficiently through rhizomes.
You can only get rid of it by digging out every tiny piece of the root or by otherwise creating a barrier, for example with a dense lawn layer.
A lawn is made up of a collection of grasses. I also believe this is a type of grass that is now spreading more than others due to minimal maintenance.
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