How to kill grass in a vegtable garden without hurting vegtables?
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I use roundup... but i don't spray it on. i use a paintbrush and put the spray into a small cup, and i carefully paint it on the grass leaves... in a week the grasses mostly are dead
now
Weed them out.
Grass killer, find it at your home depot
pee on the grass.
just kidding, that was obscene. i'm sorry. i have no freakin clue.
weed killer. they make formulas to kill grass but not your plants. look for it in a farm supply store.
...why do you want to kill the grass?
pullit out like weeds, i sure would'nt want to eat vegitables doused in chemicals that kills grass! ya know what i'm sayin
With hands.This is an old and popular practice.
If I knew that I would be the richest man in the world.
One lady has a paper shredder and uses shreded paper to wrap her veggies and kill weeds. Straw around the plants?
Don't use weed killer your going to eat those veggies?
The best tool is your fingers. Grab the unwanted grass/weeds and pull out by the roots.
If you make this activity a part of your everyday perusing of the garden you will hardly notice the "work" and it is much healthier than any sort of nasty crap you can spray to kill the weeds.
Use your hands and pull it out.
Pull it up with your hands... Just take your time and you can pull it root and all, and it won't grow back!
Try "Grass Getter". I use it for shrubs and I believe it is vegetable safe as well.
I use a Japanese digging tool to weed grass that's located close to the veggie plants, and hoe out the stuff that's growing on the fringes.
To keep the grass from coming back, spread sheets of newspaper around the garden and cover with grass clippings. This works as a pretty effective barrier for about 6 weeks AND won't harm your vegetable plants.
Ortho makes "Grass-B-Gone" grass-killer that comes in a ready-to-use 24-ounce bottle and is a selective herbicide labeled for use in vegetables.
It is a postemergence grass-killer that controls annual and hard-to-kill perennial grasses such as crabgrass, bermudagrass, foxtails, goosegrass and johnson grass in listed flowers, groundcovers, evergreens, ornamentals and vegetables without injuring desirable plants.
You can find this product at most hardware/garden shops.
Hope this helps solve your problem. GOOD LUCK!
after the veggies are havested you can kill a lot of the grass seeds by covering the soil with clear plastic and leave it on for a month . the heat generated willkill the seeds,in some cases down to 12 inches. then the next planting or year you wont have as many weeds to pull out.
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