02-14-2019, 12:57 PM
quote:When it's brown its easy to weedwhack, or sythe or string trim or tractor with mower attachment or whatever. It comes down easier that way. As it tries to regrow you could try what dan d said.
Originally posted by dobanion
OK, so I got 1/2 an acre overgrown with Guinea grass, 7ft tall, and we hit a dry spell, it all turns brown. It's surrounded on all sides by Christmas Berry, from everything I have read, will NOT burn. No houses or structures within 100 yards in any direction.
I light a match to it and step back and it all goes up nice and perfect in 20 minutes, am I under arrest?
Not sure if that will work for guinea grass (what i call cane grass). You could till it and go through and easily pull out the corms of the loose dirt as the regrow. Be careful of what you do with that barrel full of grass roots when finished.
Puna bonus on saving money: Sometimes after you clear it the pigs will do the tilling job for you. Free of charge.