Bermuda Grass: Pest

On the farm this week my group tacked the ever troubling problem of Bermudagrass.  Bermuda grass has been a problem on our farm for a while as it is a very hard to eliminate weed that takes up nutrients from the plants we want to grow.  Part of the reason Bermuda grass is so difficult to eliminate is that it grows deep into the dirt and when young can look like other plants that we are trying to plant.  Because Bermudagrass when young looks like a non-weed one of my group members accidentally uprooted a friendly plant mistaking it for Bermudagrass.  The only way to organically eliminate Bermudagrass is to ripe it out of the ground all the way down to the root.  But because the plant is quick to spread this can be very tedious and time consuming.

Below is Bermudagrass after it has been uprooted with its large and deep root system. -Kevin Gann