How do I kill quackgrass?
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Check with a local nursery or lawn maintenance service.
Get a good weed and feed fertilizer.
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Round-Up......Quackgrass is an insidious, rhizomatous, perennial grassy weed that infests turf and ornamental beds. Quackgrass stands out in turf this time of year due to its rapid top growth. This is a one-time-of-year occurrence due to the top growth difference when quackgrass could be effectively wicked with a non-selective herbicide such as glyphosate to kill the quackgrass without injuring the desirable turf, removal can be a very challenging task due to the intricate rhizome root system in quackgrass. Tugging from the top often results in snapping the top leaves off and leaving the rhizomes to regrow more quackgrass,
You can also burn it out.
Boiled water on the weed.
One gallon vinegar, 2 cups Epsom salts, 1 quarter cup Dawn blue dish soap. Mix together and spray or paint onto unwanted plants. Make sure to do that on a warm sunny day for best results.
you could start harvesting it.....Quackgrass, which is rich in silica, potassium and other minerals, has always been used as a natural medicine. The rhizomes contain an active ingredient called triticine, as well as a sugar called mannitol. These are given as decoctions or infusions used as diuretics as well as used to treat urinary problems, rheumatism, gout and cystitis.During the food shortages of the First World War, bread made from quackgrass was popular in southern Germany. The seeds as well as the rhizomes were used to produce a nutritious flour to replace wheat and other grains. Dried rhizomes can also be used to make artist's brushes. As well, quackgrass roots contain a substance that is fatal to slugs. Dogs, cats and wild animals eat the leaves to facilitate digestion or induce vomiting when they are sick. A few kilograms of quackgrass rhizomes mixed in with the daily feed of a horse will give the horse a shiny coat.