The wheat grass creeping can be removed by means of cultural plants which this weed "does not love" - oats, corn, sunflower, peas, salad, garden radish, etc. Effective method of fight is also such way as mulching.
Wheat grass creeping – one of the most often met and difficult removed weeds on kitchen garden. This plant can reach 120 cm in height, and its long, creeping and knotty rhizomes get into the soil on depth up to 1 meter. Many gardeners for years conduct with it unequal fight. How to remove wheat grass creeping?
Jumping of oats and spring cutting
The fastest, effective and useful way of fight against wheat grass consists in crops on the place of its growth of oats. Oats can be mixed with Vika or peas. Roots of oats will kill wheat grass roots, and greens will enrich the soil with nitrogen, having improved its fertility. It is whenever possible necessary to dig up the earth on floor of bayonet or to plow, without choosing wheat grass. Then chopper the furrow becomes and oats are sowed by the strip approximately equal of 5 cm. The subsequent furrows become at distance in 15 cm from previous. When oats reach 15 cm in length, the site needs to be dug over, overturning layers. It is important not to allow germinations of oats. After that oats are sowed the second time and also dug over. Thus it is possible to destroy completely weed and to receive the site, ready to spring landing.
As the option of fight against creeping wheat grass can be cut young sprouts of weed with arrival of spring. At the same time it is deeply even not obligatory to be buried. Will be to remove grass and part of rhizomes at depth of 5-7 cm enough. Fokin's subsurface cultivator, "Martin" or any other usual tool can provide it. What is cut off will need to be removed from bed, and it will be much simpler to be made, than to choose all roots from depth in 20 cm. Each subsequent generation of wheat grass will be weaker and is smaller than previous. Thus nothing will remain to plant how to die or creep away to those places where nothing threatens his life and growth.
As still it is possible to get rid of wheat grass and to organize warm bed
The wheat grass creeping very hard sprouts from depth. Therefore this feature can be been the basis for fight against this weed. It is required to remove 20-tisantimetrovy soil layer and to lay it green material down. It is not forbidden to lay one more layer with wheat grass, and from above to fill lands. As a result the ridge up to 1.5 m high has to turn out. Thus it is possible to achieve wheat grass peregnivaniye and to get rid of it for certain, on hilly ridge it is possible to plant various plants. Preference should be given those from them which "are not loved" by wheat grass. It is about corn, sunflower, haricot, salad, garden radish, radish and peas. Also such way as mulching enjoys wide popularity. It is necessary to lay on spring on young sprouts of weed cardboard, and from above to powder it with either mowed grass, or peat. Because of lack of light the roots of wheat grass will rot through in the earth together with cardboard and if any escapes and break" through barrier, they can be sprayed with vinegar, and they will dry up. In fall the fight against weed on kitchen garden will be successfully complete.