What's the best way to keep Bermuda out of flower beds?

Andrea
by Andrea
IN OUR PREVIOUS HOME AND OUR CURRENT HOME, WE HAVE BERMUDA GRASS (BUILDERS LOVE THIS STUFF - WE CALL IT WEEDS) IN BOTH PLACES, IT WAS ALMOST IMPOSSIBLE TO KEEP OUT OF THE FLOWER BEDS, WE TRIED THE BLACK LANDSCAPE FABRIC AND IT GREW UNDER AND THROUGH!
  5 answers
  • Hillela G. Hillela G. on May 13, 2017

    Locate Bermuda growing in the flower bed by underground rhizomes. Dig down into the soil of the bed with a shovel to locate the end of the Bermuda rhizome. Remove the rhizome with a combination of pulling and digging so that you remove as much of the plant as possible and any associated roots.


  • Andrea Andrea on May 15, 2017

    THANK YOU!

  • John John on May 15, 2017

    also a metal border along the edge of the bed (pushed in at least 2") will stop the runners....but if you don't keep the grass mowed and allow it to seed, the seeds become airborne....best way is dig it up...looks like a nut at the end of the root

  • Andrea Andrea on May 15, 2017

    we keep the grass mowed (my son is anal about this), it's those runner that drive us crazy. I have pulled and plucked and dug between both houses, a total of eleven years! I will suggest the metal border. Haven't tried that! Thanks.

  • Cwh6899259 Cwh6899259 on May 15, 2017

    Sounds like a on-going dig and pull project. Just hope you don't get morning glory too!