guildfordcycads

I live in Missouri, and my yard and garden beds are absolutely taken over by bermuda grass. I have tried hand pulling small sections in the garden with mixed results – it takes hours and by the end there is always guaranteed to be a root or two missed.
I like to avoid chemicals if at all possible, and I want to do an experiment this year to see if I can out-compete the bermuda grass in a section of my yard. I’m willing to try anything – it does not need to be low growing “lawn” plants, (I eventually want to change a lot of my lawn into native permaculture anyways!) but they must be easier than bermuda grass to eventually remove after the bermuda has been successfully smothered.

So – what are your best ideas for aggressive plants? I know bermuda has really deep roots and dislikes shade. So if the plants provide a lot of shade/take up a lot of root real-estate you get bonus points! A couple ideas I have already is sweet potatoes or native buffalo grass.

Thanks everybody. 🙂

i want to plant my cabbages and onions (and some hardy geraniums, foxgloves, aquilegias) together bc pretty on my allotment.

will i have to net it all? aparently i won’t. but i don’t trust that

does anyone have firsthand experience doing this kind of thing?

thank you! – an inexperienced generally skeptical grower.

I just learned about Experimental Farm Network. I also love Cicada Seeds and Small Island Seed Company (they are based in Canada and you want to make sure you have a phytosanitary certificate for what you are ordering ready.)

What are some of your favorite places that are U.S.-based or abroad that will ship to the U.S.? Just curious of other places with other variety that I haven’t seen yet!

Hey,

my area is experiencing crazy drought since 2018. i’m from north africa and my area haven’t had any serious rain in the past 7 years or so so what used to be a vast-steppe-like land turned into a desert.

it’s at the point where it’s beyond repair or at least there must be some huge effort to reverse the change or at least to keep it as it is right now and don’t make things worse.

and to make the situation 100x worse. this area is dominated by aleppo pines and we’re losing those in crazy numbers. i keep noticing dead aleppo pines monthly. and whenever i go to the nearby forest there’s just thousands and thousands of dead aleppo pines

most of them are 100 years old around that age.

so to sums up the situation:

• no rain for 7 years
• we lost our ground cover
• desertification the land is now covered by sand
• this year we’re losing our aleppo pines

my original idea was just to diversify as much as i can by planting pistacia atlantica and oak trees. but by the time my trees would be ready it would become 100x worse i’m sure.

so i’m thinking of creative ideas to combat this. my resources are very very limited.

i have access to a lot of pistacia atlantica, oaks, peruvian peppers and carob seeds and tamarisk cuttings

i’m hoping for some sort of idea with direct seeding because that feels like the only option i got for now
but the issue with direct seeding is we aren’t having rain and i can’t spread myself too thin