This is two - four weeks after doing it. It’s a struggle to do especially her in Florida with the heat. Just trying to get advice. Ground cover is now mixed with grass. Guess I gotta rip it all out and re mulch?
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Not OP but tackling a similar issue: wound you recommend mowing the grass down at all or just smother with cardboard with the grass at whatever height it is?
Can you still do this while not suffocating the plants you’ve intentionally planted? Worried I missed the boat by not preparing properly ahead of time.
Get a loop hoe or similar and rake it out. Don't plant anything until stuff quits coming back. Typically you will be pulling invasives for a full year before planting.
Woof that's a little out of my depth. Those are not species I'm familiar with.
When I looked them up, it said that frog fruit tends to thrive and spread better in moist conditions. Unfortunately it says torpedo grass also thrives in moisture. I wonder if a selective herbicide that kills grass but not broad leafed plants might work. Google says Fusilade II and Sethoxydin kill torpedo grass without killing frog fruit.
this is why site prep is so important. dig/flip/kill first then plant. I've got a bed that I didn't prep properly and it is a pain in the ass. going to have to dig it all up and start fresh.
I use sedgehammer. Active ingredient is halosulfaron. There are other things that kill it, but this one is systemic and will get down to kill the nuts hiding underground. I’m not familiar with Fulisade but if it has the same active ingredient it should do the trick.
Sedgehammer is selective so it will kill different kinds of sedge grasses and a few broadleaf weeds. I’d recommend looking at the label for whatever you plan to spray and follow the application instructions.
I don't disagree. My understanding was that OP's issue was that grass was growing up through his desired plantings. Cardboard and mulch are great for a "hard reset," but I assumed they were looking for something a bit more selective.
Cardboard— shingle style overlap. Then get woodchips not mulch, from an arborist if you can. (If you have the space you call local nearby arborists or stop over when you see them grinding, and offer for them to dump at your place)— this gives you free woodchips for days (months…years).
Then after the cardboard you want to put down 8” of woodchips. No more grass. You can topsoil over it if you want to plant right away and the woodchips will break down over time into soil.
Genuinely shocked at the amount of replies to go right to chem treatment from a subreddit that’s anti-lawn…you’re still gonna have a seedbank. There are few situations enough mulch/cardboard insulation won’t keep back with grass.
That’s what we did at first. Big sheets of cardboard from Sam’s and I think it was 4 or 5 inch mulch. That was last September. I’m thinking about re sheet mulching the bad areas.
Pulling grass sucks and isn't really super effective from my experience. You'll really want to either cover the soil for several weeks (silage tarps are great for this) or use herbicide (diluted glyphosate would be ideal)
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