Grass keeps invading and over running garden bed. Tips/ Tricks much appreciated.
by Otherwise-Elk-8619
Grass keeps invading and over running garden bed. Tips/ Tricks much appreciated.
by Otherwise-Elk-8619
3 Comments
I had a similar issue in my backyard, have just removed the attempted separation between raised garden beds and lawn, and am just going to mow the whole lot and treat it as lawn with some saplings growing in it (wish there was some way to keep kikiyu clear of the sapling bases though, mowing is a nightmare).
Same issue out the front I’m just spraying everything with the grass targeting spray fusillade forte in multiple applications, to hopefully kill it all dead finally and start having aus natives fill the same niche (creeping boob etc).
Honestly don’t think you can keep kikiyu within a specific part of a shared space without constant maintenance – I’ve had it throw runners vertically two metres up the interior of a vertical pool bar fence with a diameter no larger than a whiteboard marker, that shit THRIVES.
You should get a pet goat
You need a deep trench between garden beds and the grass. I’d be going down 600mm or so and about a metre wide. Backfill with mulch. Any Kikuyu that tries to cross that will be easily pulled out because it will not make it to the soil.
Then on the garden beds dig as much as possible out, then apply a very thick layer of sheet mulch. This is my favourite – https://tobyhemenway.com/files/2011/09/Sheet-mulch.jpg
It takes a lot of material. Let it sit for 3-6 months and then you can plant in it. It will shrink quite a bit in size.
Perhaps there will be the odd bit of grass coming through – just stay on top of it and it should be all gone eventually.