Hi all.
Per the title.
I have tried to figure this out myself via searching reddit and google, but am really no clearer.
It's tough as nails, gets everywhere and appears impossible to actually remove if I wanted to.
Location : eastern Melbourne.
Cheers
by pax-australis
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Buffalo first thought Kikuyu is second
Kikuyu
Looks like kikuyu to me, and not buffalo. The blades seem a little thin, and kikuyu tends to grow unevenly like in the first picture. The runners also don’t look quite like buffalo to me
Agree, fully kikuyu – commonly used for lawns and VERY annoying to deal with. You’ve got to be on it all the time, unfortunately.
Thank you everyone. Seems like Kikuyu is the consensus.
What options do I have here? I want to plant some raised garden beds, and make a border garden around the perimeter.
Do I need to excavate the yard to get rid of this stuff or can it be smothered and heavily mulched? I’ve read mixed reports
Sorry mate
Good luck brother, I’m also battling this satanic spawn 💀
Kikuyu. You can remove it, but it’s pretty resilient. Persistence!
Welcome to your new lawn
Demonic ropeweed
I call it tangle weed…though I am not sure if anyone else does! The roots get thick and tubuluar and grow along the ground. Hard bastard to get rid of.
It’s kikuyu 100%.
It’s possible to get rid of it but it takes a lot of work. I once dealt with an entire backyard full of kikuyu by:
* First spraying with glyphosate, then waiting for it to die back
* I then used a pick-axe to dig it out in roughly 500mm x 500mm square patches, pulling it up like a piece of carpet and chucking it in the green bin
* I would wait a few weeks, when I saw new shoots I would use the pick axe to dig them out, pull the entire runners out and spray anything else if necessary
It took 6 months of persistent work, but I eradicated all of it and it never came back.