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Garden bros, help identify this weed (Identified: Torpedo grass)
Posted on 4/28/19 at 10:48 am
Posted on 4/28/19 at 10:48 am
After much googling, it looks like it might be quackgrass. I really hope it’s not, as everything I’ve read says quackgrass is a combination of stage 4 cancer with aids for flowerbeds.
It grows all year round. The runners are many feet deep and basically impossible to fully dig up. Been battling this stuff for years. There are established large shrubs and trees that I can’t (don’t want to) dig up to start over.
Am I fricked?
It grows all year round. The runners are many feet deep and basically impossible to fully dig up. Been battling this stuff for years. There are established large shrubs and trees that I can’t (don’t want to) dig up to start over.
Am I fricked?
This post was edited on 4/28/19 at 12:32 pm
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Posted on 4/28/19 at 11:15 am to Logician
Torpedo grass. Prayers sent.
Posted on 4/28/19 at 11:22 am to Logician
put some roundup on a sponge and wipe the shite out of it...it will die.
Posted on 4/28/19 at 11:23 am to secondandshort
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Torpedo grass. Prayers sent.
Yep, I have it. And yep, you are fricked
Posted on 4/28/19 at 11:39 am to secondandshort
From that picture it doesn’t look big enough to be torpedo. Just looks like common bermuda
Posted on 4/28/19 at 11:59 am to Logician
Torpedo grass. You better start hitting it now with roundup. It will take several attempts.
Posted on 4/28/19 at 12:00 pm to Logician
Torpedo. Good luck.
Posted on 4/28/19 at 12:29 pm to ronk
I agree with torpedo grass. Thanks all.
That’s my fault. I only dug up a small stem of it. It’s small because I just dug it up about 2 weeks ago, and it’s back again.
But it does get to be about 3 feet tall for a single stalk. One of the places it grows is under some large shrubs and is only noticeable when it pokes up out the top of them.
Here’s one I just pulled
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From that picture it doesn’t look big enough to be torpedo. Just looks like common bermuda
That’s my fault. I only dug up a small stem of it. It’s small because I just dug it up about 2 weeks ago, and it’s back again.
But it does get to be about 3 feet tall for a single stalk. One of the places it grows is under some large shrubs and is only noticeable when it pokes up out the top of them.
Here’s one I just pulled
Posted on 4/28/19 at 2:39 pm to Logician
Yeah, definitely bigger than I thought. 100% torpedo. You can thank dairy farmers and horse ranches for that.
Posted on 4/28/19 at 3:53 pm to Logician
Torpedo is the devil. I’m anti herbicide, as a rule, yet I will hit torpedo with uncut Roundup every time I see it. Don’t let it get into your flowerbeds or its game over. It is a horrible scourge.
Posted on 4/28/19 at 6:34 pm to hungryone
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Don’t let it get into your flowerbeds or its game over.
it’s ONLY in the flowerbed and been there for years. It’s intertwined in everything. It’s completely taken over. I’ve been yanking out handfuls of it at a time every few weeks until I really had time to dig it up. I only just started getting the hint that it’s never going away when I dug it up with a shovel 2 feet down a few times, but it keeps coming back. I didn’t realize what I was up against. This crap is flowerbed herpes.
Posted on 4/28/19 at 10:32 pm to Logician
Don’t pull it up, just encourages more growth.
Use Grass-b-gon and spray the leaves. Be patient and it will shrivel up in about 3 days. It’s safe around bushes, just don’t go crazy with it. Spray only grass as best you can.
Use Grass-b-gon and spray the leaves. Be patient and it will shrivel up in about 3 days. It’s safe around bushes, just don’t go crazy with it. Spray only grass as best you can.
Posted on 4/29/19 at 10:30 am to Yaboylaroy
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Torpedo. Good luck.
AIDS of the lawn and garden.
Posted on 4/29/19 at 1:48 pm to tigabait01
quote:Thanks, I'll try the grass-b-gone around other plans and roundup in more open areas.
Don’t pull it up, just encourages more growth.
Use Grass-b-gon and spray the leaves. Be patient and it will shrivel up in about 3 days. It’s safe around bushes, just don’t go crazy with it. Spray only grass as best you can.
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