Re: I\'m a Johnson Grass Farmer
</font><font color="blue" class="small">( now have the best patch of Johnson grass I have ever seen. )</font>
Alan L.,
You'll never get rid of it until you kill the rhizomes about 6-8" underground. That's if you can keep it from going to seed also. It grows just like bermuda grass, procreates from seed, rhizomes, and, vegetatively (although like this, it takes a pretty good size chunk to regrow). MSMA is probably the best chemical defense. If you have the patience, and time, and inclination to have a perfectly JG free area, hand removal of the rhizomes will remove it permanently. I conquered my problem (2 acres) like that. Just dig with a good, sharp fork (no shovel, you'll cut up the rhizomes so small it will have many, many babies!), and try to sift out the rhizomes where ever you find a patch of Johnson grass. Of course, after conquering the JG, I now have another more annoying grass, guinea grass. /forums/images/graemlins/crazy.gif /forums/images/graemlins/mad.gif
Good luck. /forums/images/graemlins/wink.gif