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
Strawberries from this bed.
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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