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At least this year I hope I’m going to have strawberries. Trying to grow strawberries had been a real battle for me, ever since the first year I planted them. The problem? Bermuda grass, AKA wire grass, my arch nemesis. My strawberry saga goes like this:
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August 2012. Wire grass taking over my strawberry bed. Again. |
One of my projects this winter has been to try to free my strawberries.
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At least I can see the strawberry plants |
No, wire grass cannot be eradicated. Trying to pull it out is like pulling on wire embedded in the ground. It grows about knee high tall with a root system just as deep. Even a teeny section of root left in the ground is enough for it to take over again in record time. If left alone, it will choke out anything and everything in the way.
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Photo from March 2011 showing the messy mass of wire grass roots strangling this poor strawberry plant |
My best hope is to hold it at bay long enough to at least harvest some strawberries. Besides fresh eating, Dan loves his strawberry jam.
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A slow but losing battle. Is it possible to co-exsist? |
Will I succeed? Only time will tell.
2013-03-06 23:06:47
Source: http://www.5acresandadream.com/2013/03/this-year-im-gonna-have-strawberries.html