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Fergienewbee

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I have a food plot taken over by quackgrass. While plowing the drive I peeled off some of the grass down to bare ground where I push the snow. Could I remove the sod in my food plot the same way and let the winter get at the quack"s roots?
Or will I just have more grass in the spring?

Larry
 
Pretty much anything you do to physically disturb quackgrass just leads to more of it- each broken piece of root becomes a new plant.

Best way to get rid of it is a shot of Roundup in the spring, when its growing good. Will kill roots and all.
 
I don't think you can freeze out quackgrass.Only way I know if you spray,roundup will do,if you don't,deep till often with no rain for 2-3 weeks will usually get a good kill.
 
once in awhile quack could be killed if tilled at the right time in the fall, I did it once. What time is right is a mystery. A qt. of glyphosate when its green and growing is about the only reliable method to kill it. Quack is about a thing of the past with rr crops.
 
A blade will not be able to go deep enough to get grass(Aa blade is NOT atillage tool!).Get a moldboard plow and turn the grass"upside down",let the roots gasp for air for a while
 
I will assume that with quackgrass and snow your climate is similar to mine.
As stated- glyphosate on green and growing quack is the answer. Here that can be spring through fall, but fall is actually the best.
 
a plow is not the tool, all it does is turn it over and it still grows. other than roundup you need to pick the hottest days in summer and just keep working and working it with deep tillage so the roots dry out. if your plot is not all that big then the other option is to just keep raking out the roots as they are worked up. then i just let then dry on a pile and burn them.
 
On a side note.

Quackgrass is not native to the US. It was introduced by the railroads in the 1800's to stabilize rail roadbeds.
 
Its a grass that spreads with rhizomes- every little bit of root will sprout. As some have said, you can dry the roots out if you hit it just right- but have to keep tilling, and physically getting the roots out of the field (even if they dry out, some will grow again when they get moist).

Think kudzu, but in grass form.
 
No.

Yes.

Farmers dedicated 3 years of endless tillage to get rid of quack patches before herbicides came along. One scraping would make more weeds, as both ends - the root and the top part - will resprout as more quack. Grows easily from any joint, and has huge rootmass storage to regrow even after a year of no green.

Good luck.

--->Paul
 
Only way to get rid of quack grass is to spray it with roundup or generic roundup when it's actively growing. I had a load of topsoil delivered to a customer for a garden. It had been through a shredder and was really good loam. However, he had the supplier take it back because it was full of quack grass roots. He wasn't mad at me cause I had no idea and ordered topsoil from another supplier. When I complained to the first supplier why they deliver soil full of quack grass roots, they said, "It was too good of soil and had been through a shredder"! All the shredder did was produce more roots for more quack grass. Dave
 
I took over a 40 that was badly infested with quack grass. Sprayed roundup on it in the spring when it was growing real good, waited a few days to make sure plants were fully infected, and then planted soybeans into the sod with a Great Plains no-til drill. Some of the best soybeans I've ever had without so much as a hint of quack.
 
I am in Mi. also. I plant Buckwheat to control Quackgrass. Work the ground in spring and keep it worked until early June then plant the Buckwheat. It is alliopathic. It puts out a poison from its roots that kill the Quack. Plus the deer will love the Buckwheat. Give control for several years.

Jerry
 
I heard that it was imported as "everlasting pasture", the feed value actually isn't too bad. It used to start growing in older alfalfa stands and the cows ate it good. as for killing it by freezing I had a field that I worked in the fall and no quack grew in the spring Isuppose late in the fall and very cold winter, but as I said it was a fluke thing. A few farmers said they had the same experience. They used to till it, rake it, burn it ect. Dad said pigs raised heck with it as they ate the roots. As for plowing it my great uncle used to say " The leaves turn to roots and the roots to leaves and away it goes again!"
 
GOOD LUCK killing it!

The roots go WAY below where a blade is gonna go and it doesn't freeze even up here near the 49TH parallel.

Glyphosate doesn't even seem to work as good as it once did.
 
Around here in Michigan farmers used to have a field cultivator, called 'em "quack digger" or "quack lifter." They had deep running chisels that tended to lift the roots to the surface where they dired out in the sun and died. Often took several diggings over a couple weeks to successfully slow down the quackgrass.
 
Guys I knew worked the ground every 2 wks for the whole summer to keep the roots exposed with a quack digger - usually a JD CC field cultivator.
 
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