Every gardener, even those who have embraced weeds, likely has their nemesis plant. That one garden invader that holds on tenaciously, spreads like honey on a hot day, can’t be eaten, and crowds out or poisons the ‘good’ plants. Mine is quackgrass ( Agropyron repens ).
A bed of equal parts strawberries and quackgrass
There are all kinds of great suggestions to control quackgrass, I’ve failed to take any of them to the level I would need to. In my desire to garden gently and make conditions as much like a normal forest as possible, I am adverse to chemicals, tilling (this may be a good thing as the grass rhizomes can spawn a huge number of new plants when they get chewed up and spit back out), and mowing. I have generally attempted to turn the lawn that came with my house into…
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