Edging to Stop St. Augustine
Jauhiainen – posted 13 November 2001 07:11
I have to spend time every couple weeks walking the fence line and pulling up st. augustine surface runners that have made it under the wooden fence adjoining my neighbor’s yard. The fence boards do a decent job of stopping the runners, but is there anything that I can use to stop the surface runners from coming through the gaps under the fence boards? Would landscape edging slightly overlapping the bottom of the fence boards and closing the gap stop the runners from making their way into my bermuda yard. Just trying to find out if it is a worth while endeavor to line the bottom of my fence with landscape edging.
seed – posted 17 November 2001 09:42
Jauhiainen, if you have a shadowbox style fence, with the boards on alternating sides, you’re probably better of pulling the runners like you’re doing now. The reason is that any little cranny created by facing off the boards will just give the runners another place to climb, then you will have a harder time pulling them out.
If your fence is a flat style, with all the boards on one side or the other, what you propose will be fairly effective, but the problem is that if there’s any moisture down at the base of the boards, where they touch the edging, there’s a good chance of wood rot. Even if it’s not raining, the irrigation water will run down between the fence and the edging, and keep it moist.
The good news is that you can at least pull the trespassing St. Augustine out of your bermuda. Your poor neighbor probably has the opposite problem, which is that your bermudagrass is coming up from rhizomes into his St. Augustinegrass, fence or no fence.
You might want to experiment with one of the cloth weed barriers. I wonder if it were placed vertically in a trench, with half an inch of fabric sticking up on top, whether that might be effective in preventing turf trespass in both directions.
Just an idea.
Phil
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