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    This bit of the board is supposed to be about the best way to grow non-edibles. However, I'm here for advice - or just a good snarl - about ridding my garden of this spawn of the devil!

    Pampas grass was planted by our predecessors to fill a space at the end of the garden. It's screened from the rest of the garden by a trellis with honeysuckle and clematis. This little plot is on my hit list as a new site for the 3 daleks. Where they are currently sited will be an area for a water collecting system for the new shed - due to be started in March-ish. However, I have just spent half an hour with secateurs, spade and fork attacking it from above and below. It now looks like it's had a bit of a haircut - and slightly exploded! It's tempting to set fire to it - lots of dried stuff from previous years - as you can tell, I haven't lavished any TLC on it, hoping it would become discouraged and die. However, it looks like such a nice winter shelter for something - hedgehog mebbe, that I can't do it.

    Has anyone here successfully eradicated one? I'm sure the advice it to keep at it - a bit each day etc. I'd love someone to say 'the foolproof way is just to ....' In my dreams eh?

    Rant over.

    Ta for listening.

    Flum
    Whoever plants a garden believes in the future.

    www.vegheaven.blogspot.com Updated March 9th - Spring

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    Flum open this link then use your 'find' option to search for pampas - there are a few people asking about how to remove a pampas and the advice is on here. Hope it helps you.

    BBC - Lancashire - Nature - Yuccas, bamboo, pampas grass and cordylines...
    Happy Gardening,
    Shirley

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    • #3
      Somebody once told me that swingers put pampass grass in their front garden as a sign to other swingers, I now always giggle when I see a clump - don't know if it's true though!

      Some of us live in the past, always talking about back then. Some of us live in the future, always planning what we are going to do. And, then there are those, who neither look behind or ahead, but just enjoy the moment of right now.

      Which one are you and is it how you want to be?

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      • #4
        Oh Alison! Flum's secret is out now!!!
        I was feeling part of the scenery
        I walked right out of the machinery
        My heart going boom boom boom
        "Hey" he said "Grab your things
        I've come to take you home."

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        • #5
          Originally posted by Alison View Post
          Somebody once told me that swingers put pampass grass in their front garden as a sign to other swingers, I now always giggle when I see a clump - don't know if it's true though!
          I'd heard that too, and that a lot of it went on in villages, keys in a bowl, that kinda thing. People ribbed LadyWayne and I about it before we moved to the village. There are quite a few clumps of pampas grass around the village and the neighbour but one has an innordinate number of cars....
          A simple dude trying to grow veg. http://haywayne.blogspot.com/

          BLOG UPDATED! http://haywayne.blogspot.com/2012/01...ar-demand.html 30/01/2012

          Practise makes us a little better, it doesn't make us perfect.


          What would Vedder do?

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          • #6
            Originally posted by Alison View Post
            Somebody once told me that swingers put pampass grass in their front garden as a sign to other swingers, I now always giggle when I see a clump - don't know if it's true though!
            Crikey! They grow all over Shetland .... hmmm, mine is the back garden. Does that mean I'm a closet swinger
            ~
            Aerodynamically the bumblebee shouldn't be able to fly, but the bumblebee doesn't know that so it goes on flying anyway.
            ~ Mary Kay Ash

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            • #7
              Originally posted by JennieAtkinson View Post
              Crikey! They grow all over Shetland .... hmmm, mine is the back garden. Does that mean I'm a closet swinger
              Surely you'd be better caber tossing?
              A simple dude trying to grow veg. http://haywayne.blogspot.com/

              BLOG UPDATED! http://haywayne.blogspot.com/2012/01...ar-demand.html 30/01/2012

              Practise makes us a little better, it doesn't make us perfect.


              What would Vedder do?

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              • #8
                Originally posted by shirlthegirl43 View Post
                Flum open this link then use your 'find' option to search for pampas - there are a few people asking about how to remove a pampas and the advice is on here. Hope it helps you.

                BBC - Lancashire - Nature - Yuccas, bamboo, pampas grass and cordylines...
                Great link Shirl - thanks for that. Seems like I need a sharp spade (got 2!) and a pick axe (not got one - wonder if Himself can borrow one from work?) and possibly some root our or stump killer. I don't want it shoving my Daleks over !
                Whoever plants a garden believes in the future.

                www.vegheaven.blogspot.com Updated March 9th - Spring

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                • #9
                  Originally posted by Seahorse View Post
                  Oh Alison! Flum's secret is out now!!!
                  It's in me back garden honest - only those 3 horses can see it - oh hell I feel faint!!
                  Whoever plants a garden believes in the future.

                  www.vegheaven.blogspot.com Updated March 9th - Spring

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                  • #10
                    In your back garden Flummery? I can't imagine what that says about you!!!

                    I had one at my last house - with the added attraction of a wasps' nest in the middle. I spent a full day running up to it, bashing it once and then running away fast.

                    I worked from the outer edges at ground level. Inside the vicious outer leaves I found lots of dead, dry materials that came away easily in big handfuls. Under this, the roots didn't go down far and I could cut through underneath it, finally rolling the whole clump out in one go. Not an easy job, but not as hard as I'd expected.

                    Some people advise lighting a fire in the root hole, but I settled for building a ten-inch thick drive over it...
                    Last edited by Paul Wagland; 30-01-2008, 05:01 PM.
                    Resistance is fertile

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                    • #11
                      Says it about the previous house owner Paul!
                      I daren't try setting fire to it - it's close to a power line which skims our far end and powers the cottage next door. Covered in creosote or something so it would go up like a rocket. Also it might have something hibernating in the dross.
                      I have cut it back hard and found all the dead-ish stuff which does come away easily. Still can't get near enough to the roots to dig anythingup though. I reckon it will need several sessions.
                      Whoever plants a garden believes in the future.

                      www.vegheaven.blogspot.com Updated March 9th - Spring

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                      • #12
                        Take it steady Flum - don't do yourself a hurt getting shot of it!
                        Happy Gardening,
                        Shirley

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                        • #13
                          That's why I only did half an hour this morning Shirl. I know me limits!
                          Whoever plants a garden believes in the future.

                          www.vegheaven.blogspot.com Updated March 9th - Spring

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                          • #14
                            Sharp spade doesnt make great headway as the roots are quite spongey due to the fibres etc ... on the odd occasions I have removed large pampas specimens I made steady progress with a large heavy sharp mattock as you need a wider end to your tool than a pick provides ... bonne chance ...
                            peace of mind ... work the land ... connect with nature ... simple

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                            • #15
                              Glad to hear that Flum, reading groanathome's post, you are going to need a fair few goes at it! It has warned me off ever planting one!!!
                              Happy Gardening,
                              Shirley

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