Perennials: What are you sorry you planted......Part 2, 1 by sylguy

sylguy wrote:
Well if we're going to bring up grass, I got a load of dirt from a landscaper when I re-placed my septic tank and it had Nut Grass. Talk about a serious invader. I've been at it for 4 years now. Landscaper swears it wasn't the dirt, but it has stayed inside the rock edged raised garden we built for natives and cactus. I have pulled and pulled, tough-ass little runners, I have used black lawn cloth under mulch, I have used freshly chipped cedar which slows lots of weed down but can't be by tender plants unaged. The best was several layers of newsprint, wet down and covered with the cedar mulch, but any little spot around the neck of say a mountain laural or the sage, it stars there and works out. The rest of the area, the septic folk covered in loam and seeded Bermuda without asking me. I got $100. from them for seed "of my choice" and was treated like an ingrate to boot.