How do you get rid of it in a garden?

Pull it, making sure to get the nuts when you pull. It's not going away overnight - it takes time and dedication.

Nut sedge just sucks. I hate the stuff with a passion.

http://www.sedgehammer.com/

Nevermind... missed the garden part.

Can SedgeHammer be used in my vegetable garden?
No, SedgeHammer can not be used in vegetable gardens or in or around annual plant beds. It can be used in landscapes around established woody ornamentals as a directed spray on the sedge. Avoid contact of SedgeHammer with the leaves or plant parts of desirable plants.

Vegetable garden? No chemical remedies are recommended in one. I'm trying a molasses/water mixture that I found online. Takes multiple applications, but seems to be working.

BQ75 said:

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Vegetable garden? No chemical remedies are recommended in one. I'm trying a molasses/water mixture that I found online. Takes multiple applications, but seems to be working.

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Link or directions? This intrigues me.

Option 1, pull it.

Option 2, wear nitrile gloves, soak a sponge in roundup and rub it on any plant you want to kill.

Option 3, get a pig.

coyote68 said:

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How do you get rid of it in a garden?

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The obvious answer is to shoot it off.


/I have nothing of substance to offer

Permit herbicide will take care of it.

Depending on the specific vegetable.

Rotation restrictions listed on page 12.

http://www.cdms.net/ldat/ld76S029.pdf

SunrayAg said:

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Option 1, pull it.

Option 2, wear nitrile gloves, soak a sponge in roundup and rub it on any plant you want to kill.

Option 3, get a pig.

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Nut sedge laughs at Roundup. I

ORAggieFan said:

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SunrayAg said:

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Option 1, pull it.

Option 2, wear nitrile gloves, soak a sponge in roundup and rub it on any plant you want to kill.

Option 3, get a pig.

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Nut sedge laughs at Roundup. I

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I kill sedge with Roundup on a semi-regular basis. It'll kill it just fine if you use a good surfactant.

I kill it with roundup all the time. It works really well if you coat it with the concentrated stuff until it shines. I'm not talking about the heavily diluted spray bottle you get at the grocery store.

The wife doesn't like it?

SunrayAg said:

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I kill it with roundup all the time. It works really well if you coat it with the concentrated stuff until it shines. I'm not talking about the heavily diluted spray bottle you get at the grocery store.

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Just to be clear on my post I use 41% glyphosate, but I dilute it to specifications. Look at your label, but offhand I think it's about 2-2.5oz of gly per gallon of water if you're going to spot spray.

If the gyphosate that you buy does NOT have a surfactant, then do yourself a favor and add one. And don't use Dawn dish soap. that'll help, but frankly surfactant is cheap. Hell, dish soap is probably more expensive and doesn't work as well. On top of that it's a real pain in the ass to clean it out of your sprayer. it just foams and bubbles forever.

Finally, if you have a hard water problem consider adding ammonium sulfate to your tank per the directions. This will help keep the hard water from tying up your gly and minimizing it's effectiveness.

schmellba99 said:

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BQ75 said:

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Vegetable garden? No chemical remedies are recommended in one. I'm trying a molasses/water mixture that I found online. Takes multiple applications, but seems to be working.

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Link or directions? This intrigues me.

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https://www.dirtdoctor.com/garden/Nutgrass-Control-with-Molasses_vq2757.htm

Sean98 said:

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SunrayAg said:

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I kill it with roundup all the time. It works really well if you coat it with the concentrated stuff until it shines. I'm not talking about the heavily diluted spray bottle you get at the grocery store.

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Just to be clear on my post I use 41% glyphosate, but I dilute it to specifications. Look at your label, but offhand I think it's about 2-2.5oz of gly per gallon of water if you're going to spot spray.

If the gyphosate that you buy does NOT have a surfactant, then do yourself a favor and add one. And don't use Dawn dish soap. that'll help, but frankly surfactant is cheap. Hell, dish soap is probably more expensive and doesn't work as well. On top of that it's a real pain in the ass to clean it out of your sprayer. it just foams and bubbles forever.

Finally, if you have a hard water problem consider adding ammonium sulfate to your tank per the directions. This will help keep the hard water from tying up your gly and minimizing it's effectiveness.

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All the above +1

The only sure way to remove nutsedge.

mongey donk said:

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The wife doesn't like it?

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I recommend you do your manscaping in the bathroom. The garden seems to be a strange place to trim the bushes.

http://aggie-horticulture.tamu.edu/travis/wp-content/uploads/2013/06/GoingNutsOverNutsedge2013.pdf

This works great for me.