removing kikuyu grass
What's the best way of removing kikuyu grass?
Our back lawn is covered with the stuff. Its too invasive and I thought of replacing it with buffalo grass. Cheers! |
removing kikuyu grass
In a drunken stupor, on Sat, 05 Apr 2003 14:42:24
GMT, "Jerome Morrow" wrote: -What's the best way of removing kikuyu grass? - -Our back lawn is covered with the stuff. Its too invasive and I thought of -replacing it with buffalo grass. - -Cheers! - RoundUp. But then the soil can become contaiminated. The only safe, sure fire way is with back breaking kabour. |
removing kikuyu grass
Bob Incognito wrote:
RoundUp. But then the soil can become contaiminated. The only safe, sure fire way is with back breaking kabour. Roundup breaks down very quickly. It won't contaminate the soil. If you want a chemical-free alternative, I have heard of people using chooks to get rid of kikuyu. They scratch and dig it up. Jane |
removing kikuyu grass
"Jerome Morrow" wrote in message ... What's the best way of removing kikuyu grass? Our back lawn is covered with the stuff. Its too invasive and I thought of replacing it with buffalo grass. Cheers! I had a grassed area of buffalo that was contaminated with Kikuyu. Last June I hit it with Round up and all the grass died well at least the buffalo did and the Kikuyu appeared to but in about 3 months the Kikuyu had reappeared so I sprayed it again and it died. Then about 2months later Kikuyu started to reappear so I sprayed it again . It had now taken 4 sprayings with roundup and it may need a few more to get rid of what I assume to be dormant seeds germinating. Has anyone come across this before and how did you get rid of the Kikuyu for good? |
removing kikuyu grass
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"Jerome Morrow" wrote: What's the best way of removing kikuyu grass? Our back lawn is covered with the stuff. Its too invasive and I thought of replacing it with buffalo grass. Aha, another member for my Kikuyu Is Evil Society! The consensus is "repeated applications of glyphosate". I wish I could do this, but I won't while I have a small child. -- Chookie -- Sydney, Australia (Replace "foulspambegone" with "optushome" to reply) "...children should continue to be breastfed... for up to two years of age or beyond." -- Innocenti Declaration, Florence, 1 August 1990 |
removing kikuyu grass
"Jerome Morrow" wrote in message
... What's the best way of removing kikuyu grass? Our back lawn is covered with the stuff. Its too invasive and I thought of replacing it with buffalo grass. Cheers! As most people have gone with the general consensus of Roundup (Glyphospate). If you buy roundup that is concentrated (the best idea) and not pre-mixed then you should be looking at a rate of around 15ml/roundup to a litreof water (or 150ml roundup to 10litre of water). This stronger rate should get through it better, and lessen the chance of it coming back too strong. Still, it's best to spray it once, wait about 6 weeks, then re-spray. Make sure you get good and complete coverage of the area. It's non-residual, so it won't stay in the soil. In fact when roundup/glyphosate hits dirt/dust, it becomes inactive. A weed sprayed with roundup, that is covered in dust/dirt, will be lucky to die. If things are really slowing down in the way of growing in your area, it may be best to wait 'till after winter. This is cos you will get a better kill of the kyke when it's actively growing. Also the Buffalo will take off better. -- Remove "not" from start of email address to reply |
removing kikuyu grass
"Jerome Morrow" wrote in message What's the best way of removing kikuyu grass? Learn to love kikuyu. It is easier and a whole lot less traumatic than trying to rid yourself of this evil. My back lawn has slowly shrunk over 20 years to a small area, and the whole thing is infested with kikuyu. I have dug, I have poisoned, I have sworn and cursed, I have deprived it of water, still it prevails. The only things I have not tried are goats and pigs (a little to bucolic for the inner suburbs of Perth). I now content my self with controlling its invasive tendencies by dousing offending shoots in the paving with glyphosate at every opportunity. I am also told it is near on impossible to get rid of in sandy soils as it has a root system second to none. Joanne |
removing kikuyu grass
I read in one of the answers to this that there is a problem with kikuyu
re-germinating. You cannot see the seeds. They are actually in the form of a spore. A bit like the spore of fungi. Maybe one morning you went outside and thought you had a heavy dew on the lawn. That's what the spores looks like. The only way to get rid of Kikuyu is by pulling the roots out by hand. Then repeatedly hitting it with Roundup or a similar time of herbicide. Roundup breaks down fairly rapidly and looses its potence with six weeks. It may take up to 12 month to fully get rid of your kikuyu. The easy way to control kikuyu is not to water it. Bit of a problem if you want to have a lawn though. Hope this is a help. Stan "Jerome Morrow" wrote in message ... What's the best way of removing kikuyu grass? Our back lawn is covered with the stuff. Its too invasive and I thought of replacing it with buffalo grass. Cheers! |
removing kikuyu grass
There is a way - we found out last year. Army worm kills it at the roots.
Army worm also left the buffalo alone. But ... who'd be mad enough to try for an invasion of army worm? Judy "Stephanie Franklin" wrote in message ... I read in one of the answers to this that there is a problem with kikuyu re-germinating. You cannot see the seeds. They are actually in the form of a spore. A bit like the spore of fungi. Maybe one morning you went outside and thought you had a heavy dew on the lawn. That's what the spores looks like. The only way to get rid of Kikuyu is by pulling the roots out by hand. Then repeatedly hitting it with Roundup or a similar time of herbicide. Roundup breaks down fairly rapidly and looses its potence with six weeks. It may take up to 12 month to fully get rid of your kikuyu. The easy way to control kikuyu is not to water it. Bit of a problem if you want to have a lawn though. Hope this is a help. Stan "Jerome Morrow" wrote in message ... What's the best way of removing kikuyu grass? Our back lawn is covered with the stuff. Its too invasive and I thought of replacing it with buffalo grass. Cheers! |
removing kikuyu grass
Sorry to bring up the old topic of Kikuyu grass.
We got a delivery of chemicals at work yesterday. I saw a co-worker taking them to the chemical shed and noticed a new one amongst the usual chemicals. Called Task Force (I think). I had a look at it quickly, seemed to mostly list grasess as what it killed. Amongst it was Kikuyu. I will have a better read of it next week when I go back. I'm not exactly sure what we are going to be using it for there. My only guess is that perhaps it doesn't kill bent grass, yet will kill couch so maybe they can use it to stop the couch running into the greens. Could be something different than roundup. I know Fusilade will kill Kyke, but not sure how well. I'll check the new one out and let you all know. -- Remove "not" from start of email address to reply |
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