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zone5girl Painesville, OH(Zone 5b) May 18, 2006

The "grass in your garden" killer didn't touch this stuff! What can I do besides pulling each one out by hand (which would be next to impossible unless I dedicated my life to it!)? Tamara

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ceejaytown The Woodlands, TX(Zone 9a) May 18, 2006

Try "Image". It is labeled for nutgrass. Now, one time won't do it. Nutgrass has several nuts down under, and they don't all succumb the first time...but, eventually... Check to make sure that your turf is labeled. Up north, you probably have blue grass? Well, we don't have that down here.

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zone5girl Painesville, OH(Zone 5b) May 18, 2006

Actually, it is in my garden. Is there anything that will kill the sedge and leave the annuals, perennials, and shrubs alone? *I'm pretty sure I already know the answer to this* Tamara

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thripmaster Monroe, NC(Zone 7b) May 18, 2006

Enough RU applications will eventually do it in. Thats is a tough one. I heard that if you release a band of wild hogs in your garden they will root it all out!

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zone5girl Painesville, OH(Zone 5b) May 18, 2006

I'll have to check around to see if anyone has some wild hogs they can loan me. ;-) Tamara

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bambamdryad Potsdam, NY(Zone 4a) May 19, 2006

I must say that was a good one. Sitting here having coffee, and had to laugh over borrowing a bunch of wild hogs!!! LOL!!!! BAM Thanks for starting my day off with humor.

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thripmaster Monroe, NC(Zone 7b) May 19, 2006

I actually thought it was pretty funny too. Even funnier is that it really is an old wives tale and reputed to be true! I know farmers that have nutsedge in their fields. They say that if they take the field out of production for a year and pasture pigs in there, they will root out all the nuts and eradicate the problem. Sometimes truth is stranger than fiction!

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ceejaytown The Woodlands, TX(Zone 9a) May 19, 2006

We get calls at Extension about nutsedge. I will hereafter offer this as an alternative to Image. Thanks for the info. LOL

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Soferdig Kalispell, MT(Zone 4b) May 20, 2006

Hogs will root and root and root and root and root.... They also sh.. and sh.. and sh... So they arent the best way. Well unless you want to get rid of your neighborhood. I used to work on a pig farm and in August in Michigan the odor would get quite bad. There was only one neighbor and he was poor so he would walk into my bosses office and tell him that the odor was unbearable. So my boss would buy him a room at the local hotel and buy him a bottle to get through the heat wave and apparent wind shift.

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ceejaytown The Woodlands, TX(Zone 9a) May 20, 2006

Tamara - Thought you might find this of interest. http://pubs.caes.uga.edu/caespubs/pubcd/C867-9.htm

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zone5girl Painesville, OH(Zone 5b) May 20, 2006

Ceejaytown, thanks for the link!!! Tamara

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