Saving a plant from my most hated weed! Bermuda grass – In this video I save a Veronica that was being eaten by some Bermuda Grass.
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CRAB GRASS!! it's fairly easy to extract but it grows everywhere
Jim,
Ugh!!! Hate the stuff. 😝 Alas, my neighbor has also allowed a HUUUGE Devil's Walking Stick to flourish just on the other side of the fence where it sends over tons & tons of thorny runners. Used to think Bermuda grass was the worst–now I'm not so sure! 🤔
English Ivy and Wood Sorrel
Hi jim, being a Buford GA resident, Ive often wondered if I should give any of my evergreen shrubs-Nandinas, Loropetalum, Coppertops and FL sunshines, water during our winter? We rarely get rain. Ive asked people and most have told me once a month is good although we have to shut outside water spickets off in the fall, so I know it will take several buckets from inside the house, thought Id confirm with you!
This is the worse.
I call it Satan’s carpet. Maybe it’s not rooting down that deep… maybe it’s risen up from the depths LOL. Here’s the only thing I found to work 95 percent of the time: put down 3 layers of overlapping cardboard (or just 1 layer landscape fabric) then dump a MINIMUM of 6 inches of free ChipDrop (arborists wood chips). A year later, pull up the landscape fabric since it isn’t good for the soil. That works!
Bindweed uggh! Its so invasive sending underground woody stems like poison ivy and will take over shrubs if not keep in check.
I positively loathe Bermuda grass. Unfortunately, in the Dallas area this is the predominant grass. I’ve dug as far as 10 inches to remove the rhizome. This is a weed grass that can only be controlled with diligence.
We battle Bermuda grass too…comes from our neighbor. We are constantly digging it up from our beds next to their yard. And when I say constantly that’s putting it mildly. What an aggressive grass!!
Doveweed and POA in my Bermuda turf are my most hated.
Still love your YouTube’s
Jim know you don’t like herbicides but Fusilade 2 works to suppress it and it’s good as over the top application
Nut grass is a hated weed in my garden beds.
Richardia Scabra and Bermuda are thorns in my side.
Zone 6a creeping charlie. UGH
Here in the Pacific NW, Himalayan blackberries are awful, bindweed, native blackberries, quack grass, and now English ivy!! Awful, awful invasives!
Absolutely HATE ground elder (Bishop’s weed) in upstate NY (zone 5)! 😖🤦♀️
Very timely! I'm having the same problem! Thanks for this one!
Nutsedge!
I..HATE. BERMUDA GRASS.
The pain of my days is Oriental bittersweet vine. It is so persistent and invasive. The roots run so far and are so strong, that pulling it is an exhausting, full body workout. In less yhan 2 weeks, it returns with a vengeance, in the same places. Chokes and destroy everything! 😖
Dichondra – you can only control it withbroadleaf herbicide (not eradicate it); it keeps coming back and comes back stronger. It out-completes fescue and bermuda but it does need water. Drastically reduced irrigation this summer which did the trick. No more turf grass and no more dichondra. Installing drought tolerant landscaping instead. (northern california)
Question how did the soil testing kits match up? You sent two away and I can’t find the results of whether the less expensive tests had matched the send away more thorough ones
I have 2 weeds ( there are others but these 2 are the worst) that I hate the most one is Bermuda grass it is everywhere in my yard it grows up and tangles in the branches of my shrubs it is hard to get rid of even if I spray it with round up it comes back, the other is a tree called Ailanthus altissima this is so horrible I hate this tree with a passion besides the bad odor it grows everywhere , I have a 2 1/2 acre yard and there are hundreds of these seedlings popping up ( yes I actually counted and stopped when I got to 100) and they grow incredibly fast , the wood around my property are populated with them , this is in East Tennessee.
Yes! Hate bermuda grass and we have it all over. also button weed is my weed to challenge me this season.
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Hate hate hate it. Glad you’re advice
Creeping Charlie. Horrible. Also Japanese knotweed.
nutsedge is mine
Nimblewill.
I can’t believe I did it! I started limbing up a row of Leyland Cypress so my grandsons could run under them without getting spiders & whatever on them. When I was half done I looked up and I had removed privacy between my yard and the neighbors from 3’-5’. Aaarrrrghhh. There is a 3’ cyclone fence with screen on it. What can I plant in their shade that will grow fast, and screen 3’-5’ high and look good? I’m in Charlotte 7b.
LOVE that you covered this!
Quackgrass (Elytrigia repens) – I have dug some out, and keep them at bay with non-selective, and in flowerbed, a selective for grass – Sethoxydim, which is not suppose to, but has killed some stuff nearby like creeping phlox. I am killing my rear lawn, so it should help cut it down overall. I believe it came from my neighbor who got it from hay/straw that he put down for his veg garden yrs back. Simply evil.
Nut sedge grass….ARG!! Bermuda runs a close second.
I can keep most weeds under control with pre-emergent’s & hand pulling but Chamber biters is in a class all it’s own.
I actually live in what is called Wiregrass area (Tri-state of Alabama, Florida, and Georgia) 😅
I think nut grass is almost as bad! Nothing gets rid of it 😫
Nutsedge! I have several weeds that drive me crazy, but nutsedge is the worst. You cannot pull that stuff, and even if you try to dig it, you'll more than likely miss a piece. Then it gets ticked off and comes back with a vengeance!
It doesn't like shade but thrives in our hot, humid summers…
I hate Bermuda grass and that’s what I have .I equally loathe henbit if anyone has a way of getting rid of it please let me know . I keep it pulled to keep down the seeds but,that doesn’t seem to make any difference.
Creeping charlie also called ground ivy and several other things but its the worst. I've tried to smother it and it had comeback through 12in of leaves. And theres actually very limited herbicides that will kill it. In terms of grassy weeds johnson grass, orchard grass and nutsedge are the worst here
Agreed- it’s a constant battle keeping out of all my beds here in OK. I do resort to Round up when I give up the battle. Monkey grass would be second in line. I have a large bed of it the previous owners let take over. Digging it has been my only option, but at least it’s not as deep as Bermuda.
I’m in Newfoundland Canada zone 5b. Creeping vitch and bindweed!!! I’ve closed up gardens and grassed over because of these weeds! 😢I have bindweed all over my compost! I don’t know what to do!!
I have something that looks like small mimosa trees, that is so prolific and invasive. I have no idea what it called but it is more obnoxious than anything else. I spend hours pulling this up…
Clover
i lost when I saw "devil grass" as an actual nickname. My grandma would complain about all weeds, but she would say, "that stuff is the devil," when referring to bermuda.
Buttonweed is my nemesis.