My garden is basically a huge PIB !!!

[clemsonfor]

YOu can run your bushhog over tall grass and rake the windrows that it makes too. This is easier than pulling with your hands. We do have tractors afterall.

 

[Car Doc]

LOL, i was referring to those Artsy ads with the little bails of hay. The little suburban house wife has this really fine tractor with a loader and million dollar barn to put it in.

i thought one of you would catch me on the hay bail thing, but put that in just for fun. Back when i had time to study law, the prof said: "if your not having fun, your not doing it right".

Are we having fun yet? :laughing:

Ok man I will lighten up yes its all in fun I knew what you was talking about I have seen them too! :laughing:

And I did catch that I just preferred to use my 800lb bale as my reference meaning if I had a hay bale whether its 60 or 800lbs to move I would still get my tractor and I bet 90% of the rest of us would too!

With that said actually the last few bales I moved blew out on the middle so having one sitting in a bucket would actually be better than wagging over the shoulder!!

 

[RobertBrown]

Meaning any and all bare soil in planters, flowerbeds, GARDENS, etc quickly becomes full of quackgrass sprouts and roots, and it's next to impossible to keep them free of the stuff. The only way I can possibly have a garden free of weeds and quackgrass is to use that black landscape fabric to cover EVERYTHING EXCEPT MY VEGGIES. I so envy those who can plant seeds and sets in their soil and not have them quickly and permanently overgrown with the unwanted vegetation. I have tried using weed and grass killer, it works for two weeks,and then yet ANOTHER new crop of seeds begins sprouting.

The solution is academic.
you just need to find recipes for quack grass.


How about ptting some cheese on it, call it....."CHEESE AND QUACKERS"

 

[Bartcephus]

RobertBrown:

Seems like you are using my image as your icon in your posts.... I should be getting royalty payments for your use.... LOL :laughing:

Sounds like hay is a real option here. I know this winter I will be piling the leaves into the garden and tilling them under. Guess I will have to get a roll of "free hay" to mulch the garden for next year. I would much rather stop the weeds from growing than cultivate to take them out.

Regards,

Bart

 

[5030]

It's hay 'BALE" by the way and you 'BAIL' the hay bale.

I have unlimited amounts of bailed hay both round bales and squares and I've never put any in the garden. I just weed regularly.

 

[Chuck52]

I've got a partial roll of hay from when the neighbor who cuts my hay had a problem with his baler. I've thought of using that in my garden, but my hay got cut last year long after the fescue (and weeds) had gone to seed, so we're talking high seed concentrations in that stuff. I also have access to unlimited horse manure, both fresh and aged but not composted. I should just mix that seedy hay and some fresh manure and let it compost, after which it will be a great addition to my garden. However, if I were to mulch with that hay as it is I'd have really nice rich high quality fescue in my planting beds. Fescue is edible, but not one of my personal favorites.

Chuck

 

[JDgreen227]

RobertBrown:

Seems like you are using my image as your icon in your posts.... I should be getting royalty payments for your use.... LOL :laughing:

Sounds like hay is a real option here. I know this winter I will be piling the leaves into the garden and tilling them under. Guess I will have to get a roll of "free hay" to mulch the garden for next year. I would much rather stop the weeds from growing than cultivate to take them out.

Regards,

Bart

I have been tilling leaves into my garden plot for 15 years now, it amazes me how much the soil has improved in the older part. For what it is worth, the book I ordered on Ebay..."The $64 Tomato" arrived in today's mail. Looking forward to reading it tonite.

 

[RobertBrown]

Quackgrass, like most weeds has several different names depending on where you live. I just learned that quackgrass is another name for "topedo grass". Thats what its called in these parts. Its considered an aquatic invasive as well as a turfgrass pest here. That means it can grow underwater. The only way to get it out of your pond efficiently is to employ the help of a fish. The grass carp will eat it. This fish is also an invasive pest so the fish must be sterilized before releasing.
I realize that this information is of little use to you, but you can take solice in the fact that you are dealing with a plant that grows just about anywhere, under almost any conditions, "one tough weed" if you will.
Some information you may be able to use is: torpedo grass can be controlled with "Fusilade", a post emergent selective herbicide that works on the roots or rhizomes.
I personally have no experience with this product.

 

[JDgreen227]

Quackgrass, like most weeds has several different names depending on where you live. I just learned that quackgrass is another name for "topedo grass". Thats what its called in these parts. Its considered an aquatic invasive as well as a turfgrass pest here. That means it can grow underwater. The only way to get it out of your pond efficiently is to employ the help of a fish. The grass carp will eat it. This fish is also an invasive pest so the fish must be sterilized before releasing.
I realize that this information is of little use to you, but you can take solice in the fact that you are dealing with a plant that grows just about anywhere, under almost any conditions, "one tough weed" if you will.
Some information you may be able to use is: torpedo grass can be controlled with "Fusilade", a post emergent selective herbicide that works on the roots or rhizomes.
I personally have no experience with this product.

Thanks for your input and information. Back about May 12 I decided to dig out an area of my garden plot that was about 5 by 5 feet, it was heavily infested with quackgrass and I had never cleared it out properly, because it was infesting an asparagus patch. Look at the wheelbarrow in the background, perhaps a quarter of the contents is asparagus roots, but the remainder is quackgrass and roots...from a 25 square foot area !!!

 

[ShenandoahJoe]

So much reassurance in this thread! Troybilt, 5030, you guys give me confidence I'm doing it right. That, and the soup my wife made out of my yellow crookneck squash this evening.

Hey, Chuck, if you have access to an unlimited amount of horse manure, does that mean you work for the same company I do?