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Grass growth in bed edges. What to do?
Posted on 4/24/26 at 9:11 am
Posted on 4/24/26 at 9:11 am
What are my options for grass in edges of beds? Just moved and the beds run right up against the grass and I’m having trouble combatting a little bit of grass growing through the edges. Natural border with bark mulch and mostly hollys lining the beds.
Outside of pulling them every weekend is there something I can spray to keep it down without damaging something subsurface in my beds? Root etc of plants
Can I spray with standard weed killer, or am I risking damage to plants?
Outside of pulling them every weekend is there something I can spray to keep it down without damaging something subsurface in my beds? Root etc of plants
Can I spray with standard weed killer, or am I risking damage to plants?
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Posted on 4/24/26 at 9:33 am to PapaPogey
Just spray it with weed killer. It will only kill what is sprayed.
Posted on 4/24/26 at 9:46 am to PapaPogey
Posted on 4/24/26 at 9:53 am to PapaPogey
I'll hit it anything my weed eater doesn't take care of with weed killer, mainly runners. But every now and then I will walk the edges with my spade to break everything up.
Posted on 4/24/26 at 10:27 am to PapaPogey
I use glyphosate. A very narrow spray right at the edge. It's not absorbed by the roots. Mostly foliar.
Posted on 4/24/26 at 10:41 am to PapaPogey
Do you have a proper natural edge? I have mine like the below and rarely get anything growing over that a weekly weed eater pass doesn't take care of.
Posted on 4/24/26 at 10:49 am to DukeSilver
Probably not defined enough but I’ll work on it. Brand new landscaping before I bought the house last month. Weed eater throws too much mulch so I need a better option there
This post was edited on 4/24/26 at 11:40 am
Posted on 4/24/26 at 11:52 am to PapaPogey
There is an herbicide called Fusillade that will kill the grass (depending on what your grass is probably) but won't hurt the stuff in the flower beds.
Posted on 4/24/26 at 11:58 am to DukeSilver
My kid would drop the mower tires right off that edge and scalp the grass
Posted on 4/24/26 at 12:13 pm to bbvdd
Mostly centipede in the areas I’m targeting.
Posted on 4/24/26 at 1:25 pm to Shexter
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My kid would drop the mower tires right off that edge and scalp the grass
Posted on 4/24/26 at 2:09 pm to PapaPogey
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there something I can spray to keep it down without damaging something subsurface in my beds? Root etc of plants
Glyphosate is only active when it hits plant’s leaves and has no effect on soil. That said, it will kill the entire runner on turf grass, so it will kill grass several inches from where sprayed. I don’t believe that will be defined enough for your application.
The only way would be to install edging and then weedeat.
Posted on 4/24/26 at 5:27 pm to DukeSilver
That looks so nice. It must be AI.
Amazing edge. Id love to have mine like that with my St Augustine. I have to keep the edge up because the HOA wont allow pavers. Yet.
Amazing edge. Id love to have mine like that with my St Augustine. I have to keep the edge up because the HOA wont allow pavers. Yet.
Posted on 4/25/26 at 8:03 am to DukeSilver
The Bermuda that lurks beneath my weeds would laugh at that nice edge as it climbs over it and proceeds to grow up into those bushes and even up that wall. If it ever rained again, that is.
Posted on 4/25/26 at 6:34 pm to LanierSpots
Geez, won’t allow pavers? You live in the 1940s era Soviet Union?
Posted on 4/25/26 at 7:35 pm to PapaPogey
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Weed eater throws too much mulch so I need a better option there
Keep hitting the edge with your weed eater weekly. It’ll stop throwing mulch after a few weeks and you’ll have your solution.
Posted on 4/25/26 at 8:20 pm to calcotron
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The Bermuda that lurks beneath my weeds would laugh at that nice edge as it climbs over it and proceeds to grow up into those bushes and even up that wall. If it ever rained again, that is.
I have celebration bermuda and that shite runs under a metal edge strip thats buried 3" and then comes up through the damn weed barrier. If I dont keep up with it the landscaping ends up part of the lawn in a month
Posted on 4/25/26 at 11:13 pm to DukeSilver
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Geez, won’t allow pavers? You live in the 1940s era Soviet Union?
Comrade, the HOAs in Sarasota county are rebelling against the fact a (R) town voted for orange man in a landslide. ORDER MUST BE MAINTAINED!
Posted on 4/26/26 at 4:59 am to DukeSilver
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Geez, won’t allow pavers? You live in the 1940s era Soviet Union?
Yea, it will change. Our neighborhood is big. Or will be. 900 homes approximately. For now, about 400 are done or being build. That means that the builder is in full control of the HOA and uses a set of rules that most use while they are building. Once enough homes get occupied, then I believe the owners can start to be a part of the HOA and some of that stupid shite will change. That seems to be the way in all the subdivisions down here.
Posted on 4/26/26 at 10:48 am to LanierSpots
Paver bands prevent DIY homeowners from doing a sloppy job with big box concrete pavers. Uniform curb appeal is the intent. Personally, I like flower bed borders made of half-buried whitewashed tires... once very popular in N MS. Vertical they make a low fence, horizontal a planter. For a while in the 60's near Army bases expended recoilless rifle rounds made nice borders.
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