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I clicked on this hoping for a miracle but it turns out I've been doing it right. Elymus Repens is the devil.😂

When I worked as a gardener in a national park the gardeners would weed couch grass out of the flower beds. We couldn’t use your approach as it would have disturbed the flowers so instead we’d tease out the roots using pointy tipped mortar trowels. We’d compete to see who could tease out the longest rhizome without breaking it. We called it “chasing couch”. While I hate couch I still enjoy the challenge of teasing out a long rhizome.

That is how I do, but I am really exhausted, always dig, remove roots carefully. But I never, NEVER do this grass in my compost! It will go in garbage bags, far far faaaaar away from my garden and house!!!!!

I feel I'm not alone!!!

I am also having a tough time with this grass. Thanks for your ideas.

How’s the results? ❤

I have just recently took on allotment will weed membrane help with this particular weed I've found area about 3 Square metres

evil shit

Watched this to give myself a boost *I can do it I can do it

Thank you for the video. I found it while researching ways to clear the Bermuda grass from at least the areas where I am planting vegetables and flowers. It is a battle that seems I am losing year after year. Do you have a tip on how to control this “medusa beast” grass, please? Thank you.

I have a neglected lawn on clay soil. I am trying to dig out sections at a time, replace the clay with a mix of sand & topsoil, then reseed. It is a long slow process.

In the winter I was tearing up long grass from the meadow to add green waste to a hotbed I was developing. I had lots of manure in the box I was breaking down, after three months, thinking I'd return to quality compost, I found the whole box was swarmed with couch grass. I'm more.gutted about fhe nutrients I've lost to this stuff. Going to seal it and lock it away and hope it rots itself down haha

I have had the same problem with my allotment but perseverance does pay off. I have a full size plot and after two years of digging it out by hand, holding back what seems like a tsunami, I'm finally on the home stretch. Cardboard and mulch keeps off weeds but it won't kill off any couch roots. Any stray ones left behind, dig it out straight away before it spreads. So far I've managed to eradicate it from completed areas, just the last bit to go. I didn't compost any of it, bagged it up and took it to the recycling centre, where they can compost it. Couch grass has been a slog and I was not going to risk introducing any of it back in the soil

I removed all soil and burnt the rhizomes, it still grows if left in big piles. Learnt the hard way 😂

after doing the dig plant sweet potato in the area for a year

To control couch grass you have to remove the tap roots, when weeding as soon as i see green shoots apearing . After rain they pull out easily. 2 other old foes are dockleaf ,dig the tuber up early . Horses tail any tiny part remaining will grow again.

Aphids hate couch grass. I blend it in water and spray on aphids.

It's a pest in North America, too. My front garden in Seattle is completely taken over.

It's meant to be related to bamboo, which is why it's so difficult to get rid of.

Crabgrass has roots that can go down 18 “ or better . Better gardening through chemistry.

Just been given a 10 rod plot full of this devilish thing, after waiting 5yrs, I had a 5 rod plot. Sometimes it does feel hopeless Some say rotavate it, but many are against that, its back breaking work.

Thanks for the vid, we are doing this process now on our allotment and it is reassuring to know you have had success with this method. Great vid, thank you.

Same Grass, same problem here in in saxony, Germany

Explains why I'm having problems with clumps forming in my garden. Thanks for the tips

it is the worst weed

I have a huge old garden that has been neglected for decades and couch grass is everywhere. It also has in many places heavy clay soil that makes this kind of removal of it very difficult. So at the moment I am mulching to increase the organic matter in the soil and make it easier to remove the grass. But oh boy, the amount of rhizomes it makes in the mulch is quite staggering. I will use a tarp on an even area where I plan to establish a kitchen grarden, mut the orchad/food forest areas that have paths and shrubs and trees and perennials are quite tricky and I don't know what would be the best way to approach it.

I didn't realise I had this grass as last year it wasnt too bad. This year I started having grass grow up through the raised beds! Something they don't tell you about no dig is that some perennial weeds like this really just need removing before you start. Im in for a marathon dig this year and hopefully I can put a massive dent in the amount of couch grass, bindweed and brambles in my paths.

Me to!!! Now there’s no weed killer that I can buy, that is potent enough to kill the damned stuff. On the beds themselves, because they are cultivated, it’s there but not a bad problem. However the paths just trimmed with a mower it sneaks in from the Sid’s of the bed from paths which from my last garden and this one when I started it 35 years ago it was one big bed , forked over in October. Dig in compost for next years Legumes. The other sections of the bed were just forked over waiting for next years spring sowing. Not a particularly good garden but the heavy composting of one bed every 3 years meant a slow improvement. The business took priority and I seemed to grow brambles , thistles from next door. Retired and I seemed to be starting from scratch but at least it’s enjoyable. With of course couch. Grass and other weeds everywhere. 😏

I think that's the same as quack grass. Last year I had my left shoulder replaced and couldn't work the garden and now the quack grass has invaded. After watching many videos on how to deal with it, I decided that old fashioned sweat and elbow grease was the only way to go and I've been doing what you do .

Reminds when we took on our first allotment. It was August so decide to hire a petrol strimmer to cut down the weeds. Strimmed straight through the remains of a deceased cat - got a fair mouthful - never been keen on extreme strumming ever since.

I think most uncared for allotments will have this grass in abundance. I used to compost mine. Then I tried drying it for months on the surface. Piled on a tarpaulin, but now I chuck it in a wheelie bin and cover with water. It will decompose into a foul,liquid. I have no idea if the resulting smelly water has any benefit, but I use it to water the plot and think to myself that because it smells so awful it must have some nutritional benefit to the soil. Returning all those minerals those roots have hoovered up when they were growing.

Just spray it with glyphosate and you'll never see it again. Once your plot is clear of weeds you can switch to organic growing.

I used a twisted tiller, just becouse is easy for me, and find that I had to do it 3, 4 times before I had the courage to plant anything...but still have some

Thank you! My garden is covered in this grass of the devil, it’s invaded my rose & lavender bed again, I’m fighting a losing battle

roundup sorts its,if you lift roots let them dry in sun before composting

So the only way is destruction, savage😅

Brilliant thank you just what I was looking for getting rid of the bugger 👌👏👏👏

Finally a good video on how to make one! Been drawing up ideas for weeks! Can I ask what the blue tubing is and where you got it from? Thanks!

Great plot Oli, you are working so hard. Can you ditch the music I love to hear you talk but the music is distracting, keep at it looking good

I like your idea on reusing the coffee cups! I am going to start saving mine from work. Cheers!

I always dump the wheel barrel full of grass/rhizomes in with the chickens. It helps fill in the holes they dig and the chickens love it

keep at it Oli, first year is the steepest learning curve, every yeild is a bonus!

I think its called “koo-ch” grass and i have it in spades! I grabbed my spade after watching this - i had hit the dense patches. But for less dense patches I found a hand cultivator works great - mine is actually broken so there’s only one “L” shaped tong left. I can gently pull the rhizomes out mostly intact… but its slow. My plan for control is to trench around my plot, dig as much of the rhizomes out as I can, lay down cardboard to protect the tarp from the sharp rhizomes, then tarp the plot and hope its all dead next year!

Try 2 chickens on the part still full of your weed. My neighbours chicken run looks like the moon, bare and full of holes. The only downside is that chickens don't like/annihilate all weeds, like bindweed. Been there with way more weeds, including Japanese Knotweed. Used a roofers propane burner before tarping it longtime. Weeds, garden waste and kitchen scraps produce nowadays all the compost I need for my no-dig raised beds. But I mix in a lot of shredded cardboard. Soaking the cardboard before shredding it by hand , is way easier. It may have been a fluke but last years I added crushed charcoal to the compost bin and watered the beds with rotted down weeds (diluted) and had good results: less pests and higher yields. I don't buy special biochar, just BBQ stuff. The special may be better, but I bett the Amazonians did not have all the fancy techno avail when they created their terra preta well over 500 yrs ago.

Great video by the way

You can get rid of it just stay on top of new growth.. any roots/rhizomes left in the dirt they will grow again.. and then any couch grass will eventually grow in from the outside… just stay ahead of it and you can keep it out

You will be surprised this month

Composting is your gold for next year.....leaf mold too 🤫🤫

Doing well mate....keep it up

Im doing much the same although got some cucumber seedinging ings and some peppers (which will die) obviously 🤐🤐🤐 Got some great runners so all is not lost..