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bermuda grass

21 years ago

well, back to fighting bermnuda grass! thanks to the fine people in the forum, i've learned that a product called "over the top" active ingredient fluazifop-p-butyl, will work, and i was willing to abandon my organic practices for a bit to try it( i've tried EVERYTHING else )but here it had to be ordered especially-at a cost of $85.per 12 oz ready to use chemical, does anyone know of where it can be purchased cheaper--or something else that will work?

Comments (9)

  • 21 years ago

    We get it at our local CO-OP or at Southerlands. It is a 16oz bottle and cost around $20. It is concentranted and has to be diluted in water.

  • 21 years ago

    What about putting clear plastic down on the grass?

  • 21 years ago

    It will just keep growing under,thru and beyond the clear plastic.We tried alot of things and heavy cardboard with mulch over it and you still have to watch it to come out but that has killed it.I am smothering it and had some chickens in a chicken tractor that contolled it but did not kill it.I decided to try everything but poison spray and the sprays are not always effective either.It is tough stuff.The stems are like wire.Somebody said they built a cement barrier that went down feet and it went under it.Posy Pet

  • 21 years ago

    posypets right-- i've put down plastic, left it for 5 years!-and when i took it up, the white roots were all over the ground--heading for the other side[ and forget landscape fabric, comes up thru it fine.i've burned it--thrives on that--tried, much as i hated to, brush killer-dont work-- now if i could just combine it with my other pest, honeysuckle--think i'd have a never fail plant that anyone would want? ( hope not!!!)

  • 21 years ago

    A yard company contractor told me that there is a spray that will kill it but won't harm your ornamentals, unfortunately, he didn't tell me the name. I'm going to go check out products at my local nursery.

    KK

  • 21 years ago

    "Over the top" active ingredient fluazifop-p-butyl"

    That's one brand name (and the one I buy locally) that will kill bermuda grass without harming anything else. There are many more. Grass-B-Gone is another but is a premix and doesn't go far. Check for the chemical active ingredient and I'll bet you can find it locally. It works and the fight with bermuda grass in ornamental plantings is OVER!

  • 21 years ago

    I thought solarizing killed everything!

  • 21 years ago

    Keep a 3 foot wide "dead zone" around any growing area. It is amazing to me how fast that darned stuff can crawl across and be right back where you don't want it. We have fought with it for nearly 20 years to keep it out of an asparagus patch.

  • 21 years ago

    here is a fact sheet on the chemical in "Over the top" from a company called ferti-lome.

    Here is a link that might be useful: fluazifop-P-butyl data

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