On 12/07/2012 08:08, Stewart Robert Hinsley wrote:
In message , Eames
writes

I went to look at a job earlier were a customer was complaining that he
had a strange grass growing in his lawn, when i got there i saw that it
was an acorus which i have never seen or heard of before.

The question he asked was how he would get rid of it from the lawn and
it had both me and my dad stumped as i didn't think a normal selective
lawn weedkiller would do the trick because of the type of plant and even
if the lawn was the be replaced with new turf then there would still be
the problem of the seeds germinating in the soil.

any suggestions on either how to get rid of it or how to manage the
spread of the plant.

we have already told him to remove the parent plant that the seed is
coming from in his garden but his neighbor has the acorus growing around
his pond and doesn't want to get rid of it so the seeds will still come
from there

any suggestions will be much appreciated

How wet is the lawn? Acorus calamus is a plant of the margins of water
bodies.

If his lawn is like mine then this year it is on the verge of ponding.
Yesterday saw another 35mm of rain here and I now have a spring at the
top of the lawn (and a fountain at the bottom of the drive). The old
capped well in a neighbours garden has overflowed under her drive.

Fern garden is nice and and green though and the slugs are gigantic.

If it did manage to establish in a lawn I would have expected mowing to
see it off.

Other than that, spot weeding techniques such as weed knives, weed wands
and weed sticks.

I suspect it is just this year that lawns are so wet that water margin
plants are at home there. It would certainly have no trouble growing in
mine at the moment. Some roads out of the village are seriously flooded
in stretches 100m long and in places 0.5m deep. No homes affected tho.

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Regards,
Martin Brown