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Best ways to kill it?????.......preferably without giving myself Cancer.
I would prefer ways you yourselves have found that work, not "I've heard that..." Again, thank you in advance!
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Buy a roll of heavy, black construction plastic; such as is used to cover lumber, etc.
Lightly spray the guinea grass with roundup. Don't overdo it.
Cover the grass with the plastic for a month.
It will be dead.
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Don't even need spray. Plastic does it. Weight it down if can. Not sure your area AKP, but just go check out 4 -6 mill stuff @ your local big box.
Happens REALLY quick BTW so no need to buy extra to cover all at once. EZ to shift plastic around to continue a large area.
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Brilliant idea. Grass does seem to die pretty quickly even when deprived of direct sunlight, as I discovered when I parked a car on my lawn for a month. Grass is still dead, a month later. Big brown patch.
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Have about 40'X25' patch of cane grass we just cut down, We are about to spray the crap out of it with roudup, would plastic kill cane grass and all the roots as well? Just leave the cut down cane grass to compost?
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Buy a tarp and give it a try. Leave it on for a month, then take it off. I guarantee the area will at least "look" dead. Let sit for a couple weeks, if you see signs of life, THEN nuke with roundup.
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If you would like to work on a limited area to start with then move on to another location, there is a reusable product called ground cover fabric. Most of the local greenhouse supply stores carry it. It's heavy gauge, will last for years, and is easier to handle than black plastic due to it's thickness. It's also less likely to break should large or strong weeds push into the material before they die off. Probably cheaper in the long run than plastic too, as you get many more uses from each section.
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When you lift the plastic, be prepared for a sluggy surprise.
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We are talking about probably a total of an acre of Guinea Grass. I like the idea of rotating the ground cloth.
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Ground cover cloth is also porous, so you're not creating areas that pool and collect water on your property, which can then breed mosquitoes.
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