I've got loads of ferns in my garden how the hell can I get rid of them?
Question:I've tried weedkiller & digging them out but all to no avail, the rootball is a real tough cookie! I really don't like them but year after year they just keep coming back! Don't know what genus they are either. However, that's irrelevant as I just want to get rid of them!
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Here you are trying to get rid of them and I'm trying to grow them. Dig them up and sell them to Home Depot, Walmart, or your local nursery. Have you seen what they are charging for them? Extra money!!!
just keep digging!
If you want you could put them in pots and give them away or sell them.
The long and short of it is easy. First just pull them out or cut them off. Next cover the entire bed with a landscaping fabric. They will not be able to work there way through that. Finally if there are plants you would like to keep they need not be dug up. You can cut "x's" in the fabric and pull them through and then use fabric pins to refasten the fabric back down. All available at any hardware or home improvement/Nursery/Garden Center. Good Luck
Dig them out.dig a bunch of the dirt out and put down a layer of plastic.Then dump the dirt back on top.Eventually the risomes will weaken.
Go out and trim back to a few inches, put a strong mixture of brush be gone on them and maybe add a bit of round up to the mix.
add a drop of veggie oil and a squirt of dish soap to your killer mix to stick and distribute. If this doesn't work use a product that will sterilize the ground, in the fall - read the can and see how long it lasts.
Just ask my kids to take care of them and they'll be dead in a week.
Ferns make great insect repellants.
I know you don't like them and want to get rid of them. I have no clue as to how to kill them, but my suggestion is to dig them up, repot them in big pots, hanging pots, etc. and sell them to those fern lovers at flea markets, etc. Even some floral shops may be interested in using them as greenery in their arrangements.
Otherwise, just get your rototiller out and plow them under. This may take a couple of years to get rid of them totally though.
Shelli
Stop and think for a moment. While they may not be your plant of choice they are the plant for the area!! What are you going to do to replace them with. Ferns grow where neither turf or shrubs generally survive.
Are you even sure they are "ferns"? An application now, and again in six weeks of a total brush killer will do the job.
Let the compound work and do not disturb the plants for at least another month after the second application. In the meantime have a plan in hand for replacement of the plants.
Plant shade friendly annuals next year and be prepared to have to spray any existing "ferns" with a Regular Round-Up type solution. The Max Round-Up does not go to the root base of the plant!
In Landscape there are no wrong plants just the wrong place for them. For example, a fescue grass is a weed in a all bluegrass turf. The ferns grow and prosper where they are because little else will. Rethink your position. The cost of chemicals and replacements demand your considered planning.
ferns can be a right pain in the **** and will come through landscape fabric. best bet is to let them come a bit and then cut back just as the fronds unfirl. you will have to do this a lot but the massime root systems will eventually exaughst themselves. i have got on top of half acre of the things in a year. not only does cutting mean no chems, your also adding to your soils organic content and you can be selective and allows some of these pretty plants do their thing.
Dig them up and send them to me. Here in America they are expensive as hell, i have to buy one at a time to be able to start a fern garden. tell me what u are doing that is making them so professient in growth.
From Oklahoma, in the United States
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