Is there a reason you cant pull a weed out with your hands? Have you tried?
I apologize if you don’t have hands or have some other issue which prevents you from using your hands.
BTW, weed fabric would not have helped much in this case. Those aren’t weeds, exactly, they are, but its just your grass growing into your beds. If you used weed fabric, that grass would still come out of the holes you cut to plant your plants.
Its a creeping grass, just pull it out. Its easy, its fun, its a decent small workout. You can do a small area, just for 15 minutes a day. After a week its gone.
VroomVroomVandeVen
Honestly, there isn’t another way for that situation.
RollingBlue27
Mine get the same issue and I have about 80 planted as edging. Ain’t fun but worth it.
HappyCamper4_20
You could theoretically get a grass herbicide and just be very careful when spraying it. But some gardeners prefer mechanical removal over chemical means.
Nikopoleous
Even weed mat won’t stop it, sorry to disappoint you
Twindo
See if blue daze (morning glory) is listed as a tolerant plant in the label of fertilome over the top II. It’s a grass killer you mix a little into a 1 gallon sprayer with some surfactant and spray directly on beds. There’s instructions and plants you can use it on in a pdf online. Just google fertilome over the top II pdf.
NN11ght
Welcome to the bane of my existence as a gardener. Time to eat a gummie, blast some music and try your best to zone out
TheGreenBastard1995
We moved in to our home and inherited this problem, first time we pulled each by hand. Definitely took a while but after the weeds were out, we dug down a little bit and removed all the soil. Put weed barrier down and cut circles for the plants (was a pain in the ass) then recoiled/mulched and called it a day. Probably not an ez fix but worth it with some work.
Several-County-1808
Your flower bed looks exactly like mine, blue daze, zoysia grass in the blue daze, and the landscape edging. Here is my plan for being exactly in the same shoes as you. I have started using my edger around the outside of the landscape edging. Sometimes it takes multiple passes, but I edge pretty deep in order to disconnect the grass in your flower bed from the grass in your lawn. I then edge using a string trimmer into that trough thereby creating a little bit of a standoff in between the grass in your lawn from the landscape edging. Maintaining this DMZ, if you will, will help prevent grass from growing over or under the landscape edging in the future. I have a lot of grass in my flower bed that is not directly growing within my blue daze and I plan on spraying Roundup very carefully on that grass in my flower bed, the grass that no longer shares roots with the lawn. If I didn’t do this the Roundup would very likely kill some amount of my lawn in those areas. For the grass that is growing out of my blue daze like yours, hopefully the common roots will mean it dies from the Roundup, but if it doesn’t I will need to pull that grass and its weeds by hand.
Next spring in early spring spring Preen on the mulch and water in. Since you have a seed bank now in the soil you make have to spray the bed again in early summer.
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Is there a reason you cant pull a weed out with your hands? Have you tried?
I apologize if you don’t have hands or have some other issue which prevents you from using your hands.
BTW, weed fabric would not have helped much in this case. Those aren’t weeds, exactly, they are, but its just your grass growing into your beds. If you used weed fabric, that grass would still come out of the holes you cut to plant your plants.
Its a creeping grass, just pull it out. Its easy, its fun, its a decent small workout. You can do a small area, just for 15 minutes a day. After a week its gone.
Honestly, there isn’t another way for that situation.
Mine get the same issue and I have about 80 planted as edging. Ain’t fun but worth it.
You could theoretically get a grass herbicide and just be very careful when spraying it. But some gardeners prefer mechanical removal over chemical means.
Even weed mat won’t stop it, sorry to disappoint you
See if blue daze (morning glory) is listed as a tolerant plant in the label of fertilome over the top II. It’s a grass killer you mix a little into a 1 gallon sprayer with some surfactant and spray directly on beds. There’s instructions and plants you can use it on in a pdf online. Just google fertilome over the top II pdf.
Welcome to the bane of my existence as a gardener. Time to eat a gummie, blast some music and try your best to zone out
We moved in to our home and inherited this problem, first time we pulled each by hand. Definitely took a while but after the weeds were out, we dug down a little bit and removed all the soil. Put weed barrier down and cut circles for the plants (was a pain in the ass) then recoiled/mulched and called it a day. Probably not an ez fix but worth it with some work.
Your flower bed looks exactly like mine, blue daze, zoysia grass in the blue daze, and the landscape edging. Here is my plan for being exactly in the same shoes as you. I have started using my edger around the outside of the landscape edging. Sometimes it takes multiple passes, but I edge pretty deep in order to disconnect the grass in your flower bed from the grass in your lawn. I then edge using a string trimmer into that trough thereby creating a little bit of a standoff in between the grass in your lawn from the landscape edging. Maintaining this DMZ, if you will, will help prevent grass from growing over or under the landscape edging in the future. I have a lot of grass in my flower bed that is not directly growing within my blue daze and I plan on spraying Roundup very carefully on that grass in my flower bed, the grass that no longer shares roots with the lawn. If I didn’t do this the Roundup would very likely kill some amount of my lawn in those areas. For the grass that is growing out of my blue daze like yours, hopefully the common roots will mean it dies from the Roundup, but if it doesn’t I will need to pull that grass and its weeds by hand.
[my edging](https://imgur.com/a/IyAtjLa)
Next spring in early spring spring Preen on the mulch and water in. Since you have a seed bank now in the soil you make have to spray the bed again in early summer.