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To: freejohn

I forgot to mention....Any plant or grass that grows where you do not want it is a weed.
Bermuda, in good conditions, will spread to areas where you do not want it, as in flower beds.
It has a running root system and can spread rapidly.


12 posted on 05/17/2011 3:43:32 AM PDT by AlexW (Proud eligibility skeptic)
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To: AlexW

I think that’s what I have here in Northern Virginia. Quite a mess, never fills in enough to be a real lawn, spreads everywhere, hard to kill.


14 posted on 05/17/2011 3:48:23 AM PDT by palmer (Cooperating with Obama = helping him extend the depression and implement socialism.)
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To: AlexW

Ditto that. I’ve had Bermuda actually push its way into the house between the wall and the foundation, and grow into the carpet. You actually have to go out around the exterior walls and pull the Bermuda runners out of the house.

When Bermuda grows like that, it is impossible to eradicate. Having a garden is very difficult; if you don’t keep pulling out the Bermuda, it will quickly crowd out the vegetables.

Where I live now, the Bermuda actually isn’t very hardy. Other grasses are alive; the Bermuda looks mostly dead. Because of drought conditions, we can only water once a week.


30 posted on 05/17/2011 4:28:35 AM PDT by exDemMom (Now that I've finally accepted that I'm living a bad hair life, I'm more at peace with the world.)
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To: AlexW

If you think Bermuda is bad, you should try fighting privet. You can throw gallons of Gly-4 on it, burn it, dig it up, mow it down, plow it under and it still comes back (usually with a vengeance).....


37 posted on 05/17/2011 5:10:28 AM PDT by Thermalseeker (The theft being perpetrated by Congress and the Fed makes Bernie Maddoff look like a pickpocket.)
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To: AlexW

Exactly right. It has gotten into my herb garden and is a pain in the neck figuratively and literally to get rid of.


59 posted on 05/17/2011 1:45:27 PM PDT by kalee (The offences we give, we write in the dust; Those we take, we engrave in marble. J Huett 1658)
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