How Do You Kill And Eliminate Bermuda Grass In Flower Beds?
Bermuda grass is a great lawn grass in many areas. However, it can be very invasive. Here is how to stop it from invading your beds. Step 1 Prepare to remove the runners. Bermuda grass covers bare ground quickly which makes it a good lawn grass. That same quality also makes it invasive. It travels by runners, called stolons, that are root-stems and which advance forward, putting down new roots. Once it has crossed over into a flower bed it can be next to impossible to get rid of. You will need to dig up the earth and remove each bit of stolon or runner. Step 2 Isolate your lawn from your flower beds and garden. You first want to put up a good barrier between your beds and your lawn. I recommend at least a foot of hardwood mulch with plastic edging buried about six inches. Keep the lawn trimmed back to the edge of the mulch line so stolons don’t cross over it. It will be like a “demilitarized zone between your lawn and flower beds and if you see Bermuda grass stolons starting to cross i
