Nut Sedge may be the proper name. It's been more wet than usual here this year and patches have sprung up everywhere. The flower garden, the veggie garden and the yard. Trying not to kill everything around it and am puzzled as to what might do the trick.
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Well, it takes several seasons to get it under control, manually. That is my preferred way, especially if it's in beds which are already cultivated and moderately soft. Just put a fork in, loosen the soil and gently pull so you can also pull the other nutlets which are attached with a threadlike structure. There is a product called Image, but I have not seen it as a very useful tool since it doesn't always work, and why put a synthetic chemical on the garden if you can just take some time on the weekends and pull some each time you are out for five minutes here and there. Eventually, you control it, but it never really goes away.
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According to my research, a product called MANAGE is supposed the best way to control nutsedge.
It has been very wet here in Virginia so nutsedge is flourishing this year. I have been manually pulling it.
LMove to a new location. If you can't do that, you might have success by planting a cover crop that will completely shade the affected area and leave it in place for at least three years. Alternatively, you might be able to find a fumigant that will kill most of the nut grass. I have been told that lime can help, but in my experience it has not. Surface herbicides will burn it back, but it will grow back from the nuts, which seem to come from Hades.
Karl W.
-> Move to a new location. If you can't do that, you might have success by
-> planting a cover crop that will completely shade the affected area and leave
-> it in place for at least three years. Alternatively, you might be able to
-> find a fumigant that will kill most of the nut grass. I have been told that
-> lime can help, but in my experience it has not. Surface herbicides will
-> burn it back, but it will grow back from the nuts, which seem to come from
-> Hades.
->
-> Karl W.
->
-> > Nut Sedge may be the proper name. It's been more wet than usual here this
-> > year and patches have sprung up everywhere. The flower garden, the veggie
-> > garden and the yard. Trying not to kill everything around it and am
-> puzzled
-> > as to what might do the trick.
This thread is depressing. I've just recently discovered nut grass in my lawn. Never had it before.
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