"Chookie" wrote in message
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"0tterbot" wrote:

Waaaah! Mine is being strangled by kikuyu! I have been hitting bits
of
it
with Roundup if I can manage not to kill food plants...

well, call me hopelessly naive, but i thought you can just pull out
kikuyu!
(clearly i have never had kikuyu myself). i'm always battling with couch
grass. it completely boggles my mind the way it appears not to grow
anywhere
at all except into vegetable beds or other places it is not wanted.

I've got that too, and it reacts the same way when it's "just pulled
out" --
regrows from the bits left behind. I do have couch on part of the back
yard.
It's nice and soft and the piggies like to eat it.

it's excellent growing amongst grass. i just can't work out why it won't
stay there, & would rather travel into the beds!! it is evil!!!!

i did spend about 8 months in a rented house clearing it out of my wee
veggie patch. by the time we left it was no longer growing back. i hope to
replicate that result here (eventually).
kylie


I've just sheet-mulched the most rampant kikuyu in the vegie patch and
hope to
plant it out later today.

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Chookie -- Sydney, Australia
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