Eliminating rushes organically
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earthway Rank attained: Hazel Tree

Joined: 23 Sep 2015 Posts: 17 Location: Monaghan
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Posted: Tue Oct 13, 2015 8:56 pm Post subject: Eliminating rushes organically |
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can anyone suggest a way to get rid of rushes organically, i don't want to use chemicals in the garden |
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Blowin Rank attained: Vegetable garden tender
Joined: 20 Aug 2008 Posts: 919 Location: Drimoleague, Co Cork
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Posted: Fri Oct 16, 2015 5:50 am Post subject: |
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No-one's responded yet, so you might like to define 'rushes'. Down here the clumps of SEDGES that grow in wetter patches are referred to as 'rushes' so there may be some confusion. _________________ A novice gardener on newly cultivated, stoney ground. |
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Greengage Rank attained: Chlorophyll for blood
Joined: 09 Nov 2011 Posts: 3067 Location: Kildare
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Posted: Fri Oct 16, 2015 6:38 am Post subject: |
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If its in a lawn just keep cutting them they will eventually exhaust themselves. Why not allow them to grow and see what else comes up I bet you will have buttercups, cuckoo flowers, tormental emmbrace nature dont be always fighting it. |
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Good guy Rank attained: Chlorophyll for blood
Joined: 11 Feb 2013 Posts: 2593 Location: Donegal
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Posted: Fri Oct 16, 2015 10:34 pm Post subject: |
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I transplanted some from elsewhere in the garden to my pond margin. They love it there and will make a lovely clump of spikes in a year or two, off- setting the Libertia above the pond and the nearby Dierama. Seamus O'Donnell, in his lovely garden Cluan na dTor, in Falcarragh, has used them to make a spiral maze in a lawn.
There's no such thing as a weed, just a plant in the wrong place - as someone once said. |
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