On Sun, 29 May 2005 21:40:25 GMT, "Diarmuid"
wrote:

Hi all,

What is the best / easiest way to get rid of Pampas grass.


Thanks.

First, wear some sturdy protective clothing and tough gardening gloves
or the leaves will cut you. Then cut the top growth down as short as
you can using a sharp pair of shears or possibly a hedge trimmer.
After that, it's a matter of hacking/digging out the base. I used a
grub axe (a type of pick axe with a heavy mattock blade on one side
and an axe blade on the other) and a sharp spade. Go round and round
the outside edge taking off small chunks, and gradually work in to the
middle. They don't go very deep, say about 8 inches or so below the
surface. Took me about an hour to get out a pampas grass say 5 feet in
diameter, but bloody hard work. For a _really_ big grass, as Sacha
says, get a digger in.


--
Chris

E-mail: christopher[dot]hogg[at]virgin[dot]net