Cough grass

[binley100]

Its amasing how you managed to write that reply..............especially whilst wearing a straight jacket!

Houdini's got nowt on me ..........

[veggiechicken]

love it when you find a bit , pull and a whole long string of it comes out ........sad I know

Yeah, its so beautiful I replant it...

[di]

It's how the roots all cling together and are mostly so tough they don't snap that I love....just give 'em a good shake with your fork...sorted. Not like thistles that snap and crumble into pieces...except mid to late summer....I love digging up thistles then, when they're nice and strong and come out in one piece.

[binley100]

One of the plots on our site had 6 layers of carpet all interlaced with soil and weeds .......

[Snadger]

One of the plots on our site had 6 layers of carpet all interlaced with soil and weeds .......

Deep pile then.....................

[di]

Friday night, no kiddies and I'm sat here professing my love for couch grass .....and to make it worse, Steps Re unioun is on in the background whilst waiting for Criminal Minds to start.

[veggiechicken]

Friday night, ......and I'm sat here professing my love for couch grass

That's what Companion Planting does to you.....when you get desperate....

[Two_Sheds]

Yeah, its so beautiful I replant it...

That video I posted for Snadger? It's not barren brown desert at all, it's a plot of rotavated couch grass, just beginning to grow again

[Snadger]

That video I posted for Snadger? It's not barren brown desert at all, it's a plot of rotavated couch grass, just beginning to grow again

I should have went to specsavers............didn't notice that!

[VirginVegGrower]

Digging a trench to six inches and dropping in concrete gravel boards stops it from traveling back onto your plot. This is what we've had to do.
Forking through/hand weeding is the only way.

[kathyd]

Isn't Couch grass that stuff that has lots of entangled bulbs? If so, I can't even get a fork into our's... the clumps are huge, and when I do manage to dig around them they're so heavy I can barely lift them! Someone did tell me they eat the bulbs in Paris..not sure I fancy trying that one though .

[grannymem]

I think hot honey and lemon works best...

[veggiechicken]

Is it just me or is anyone else confused? Cough/couch grass eating bulbs in Paris, of all places. I'm with Grannymem, Honey & lemon should do the trick.

[Wren]

My heart goes out to you. I still have nightmares about this stuff an it makes me shiver to look at it...aaaarrrgghh. I did it the hard but best way an spent most the first season digging it, the matts were about four inches deep plus some an my 15 year uncultivated plot had been used as a dumping ground by my lovely neighbouring plot holders for their couch grass too ( expect I would have done same had I been there first) . I slowely worked my way over the plot an piled it all up into my pallet composter an covered it with a tarpauline . 18 months down the line when I dare brave a look at it again, well I had the most wonderful compost that i spread thickly over a huge squash bead.

She who last last, laughs loudest ... It made the most wonderful compost an mulched the squash plants wonderfully. It were so thick I could make water moats around the plants an when I forked it in this autumn my clay clogged water soil was rich an crumbley .

It's hard, hard work to take it all out, but you reep the reward by being meticulous . What ever you do don't rotavate the stuff. It took me a lot longer to go over on my hands an knees than the ratavator plot holders did. I could have cried when they seemed so fa ahead o me , but like I said, She/ he who laugh last, laugh loudest. I have very little re growth now compared to the rotavated plots.

Wren

Hard

[Two_Sheds]

Isn't Couch grass that stuff that has lots of entangled bulbs?

No, it doesn't have bulbs.