Frank wrote:
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Partial shade is not enough. I think it was you that helped me identify
it from my picture and area is mostly shade.

i think that must have been someone else. at
least i don't recall ever id'ing grass...


I had an area that shaded out grass near house so I planted ivy there.
Depending how hungry deer are in the winter they sometimes come right up
to the house and eat the ivy. In this case, they did and stilt grass
got in and now competes with the ivy.

smother it and after a year or two plant hostas
in the mulch. they seem to do well every place i
see them. we don't have much gardens in shady
areas so none are planted here. Ma doesn't like
them anyways (i don't know why...).


Garden center tells me the only remedy is premerg and not just once a
year. Crabgrass is less of a problem because premerg works as do
herbicides. Only ones that might work on stilt grass kill everything else.

if i could get Ma to stop spraying edges the
crabgrass problem would sort itself out. instead
she sprays to kill off everything along the edges
and then the crabgrass comes along and takes over.
i refuse to do any weeding of the grass as i would
much rather get rid of the little that is left
and turn it all into gardens and mulched areas.

if i'm weeding and taking care of a space i want
it to be either flowers, veggies, fruits or herbs.

about 5% of original lawn/grass is left. soon
to be even less. i can get rid of one area and that
takes care of a lot of weed/grass problems for
the surrounding gardens...


songbird