How do you get rid of nut grass permanently?
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Everyone: If in a flower bed, even though time consuming, in the fall, dig up your good bulbs/plants and put in a box to keep cool somewhere. Then dig with a sharp spade, not round shovel that's to "round" and short for me, until you have the roots and nut bulblets out.
Cover the area with Roundup soil sterilizer and cover with black plastic over the winter. Replant your good stuff elsewhere to a permanent place. The Roundup will prevent you from planting your good plants for over a year. I've done this in a 10x12-foot flower bed of iris, and huge orange tiger lilies, along with Japanese lilies. My seed givers are the birds! I have a bird feeder in the middle of the bed so I can see from my big window in winter. I now have to move the feeder or stop feeding birds. Birds also dropped a million other weed seeds. Hope this is a viable idea for you. HINT: Put your bird feeder in a bucket of concrete and bury that. Then when you need to move it, it's easy. Mine is a house-type feeder on top of a metal pole.
We had our lawn removed, landscaper grade chemicals were used to kill it off and the lawn replaced. I am still seeing some. Our lawn company uses a suppressant which helps. Last year I excavated my front beds. I went down a foot and hand removed as many nuts as I could. This reduced it by about 90 per cent but was hard work. Now when I see it in the beds I use a huge long screwdriver go down as far as I can to get the nuts. It even grows under stepping stones. Just pulling it without getting the nut gets it eventually but I would say it takes at least 20 pulls of the same strand to eventually deplete the nut. We are really diligent about eliminating it but we go out every day and remove whatever comes up. I hate nut grass. Ours came in on the turf we bought. It was a brand new wild lot with no nutgrass so we know it was the turf.