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Prevening the spread of Buffalo
I've just cleared a large area of Kikyu (a bit over an acre), and have
planted a buffalo lawn which is surrounded by an area of garden beds, a vegitated creek offset and a swale. The garden beds are being planted up with native trees, shrubs and groundcovers. Because the area is so large, and our budget is so small, the trees and shrubs are going are seedlings showing their first sign of woody material. We have ready access to the following groundcovers: Comelina New Zealand Spinnach Oplismenus (a native spreading grass that grows in shade) Native violet Dichondra (kidney weed) - this is what we're trying to establish in the swale with paperbarks and cabbage palms. I'd really appreciate suggestions for low cost, low effort strategies to prevent the buffalo grass from spreading into the garden beds. I'm particularly concerned about the swale, as if we put edging material into the swale, the overflow from the creek (the catchment is severly degraded, and the creek is trying to re-establish it's original course straight through the lawn (it's worse in the upstream property though)) erode any barrier. Any suggestions gratefully received. -- Replace abuse with kd21 in email address to assure valid reply address. |
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Prevening the spread of Buffalo
"Holy Zarquon's Singing Fish" wrote in message ... I've just cleared a large area of Kikyu (a bit over an acre), and have planted a buffalo lawn which is surrounded by an area of garden beds, a vegitated creek offset and a swale. The garden beds are being planted up with native trees, shrubs and groundcovers. Because the area is so large, and our budget is so small, the trees and shrubs are going are seedlings showing their first sign of woody material. We have ready access to the following groundcovers: Comelina New Zealand Spinnach Oplismenus (a native spreading grass that grows in shade) Native violet Dichondra (kidney weed) - this is what we're trying to establish in the swale with paperbarks and cabbage palms. I'd really appreciate suggestions for low cost, low effort strategies to prevent the buffalo grass from spreading into the garden beds. I'm particularly concerned about the swale, as if we put edging material into the swale, the overflow from the creek (the catchment is severly degraded, and the creek is trying to re-establish it's original course straight through the lawn (it's worse in the upstream property though)) erode any barrier. Any suggestions gratefully received. -- Replace abuse with kd21 in email address to assure valid reply address. I've found that buffalo is pretty easy to maintain a simple spaded edge on... it doesn't go down real deep, if you turf off the top inch you won't usually have much regrowth. Buffalo is quite a well behaved lawn, IMHO the best of the running grasses.You'll have to redo a spaded edge twice a year. The swale is a bit of a worry... a spaded edge migh get eroded too badly. |
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