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I have my veg garden surrounded by a rabbit inhibiting mesh fence with mulch on one side and grassy lawn on the other. On the grassy side there are some runner type grasses and some common yarrow which are sending stolon runners into the mulched side of the fence and growing in my mulch.
I don't know what type of grass it is. I called it crab grass but it is a perennial sending out these stolons. I think I am too far north for Bermuda grass - we average 80 inches of snow a season but we don't get too cold. Pulling the grass I get a clump with runners going out of it, and I've carefully pulled continuous runners out almost a meter long with multiple tufts of grass attached to them.
Is there a reasonable barrier edging that I could put down to stop stolon encroachment so once I kill off what is inside my veg garden side I don't have to repeat my work?
Options I can think of:
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I don't know what type of grass it is. I called it crab grass but it is a perennial sending out these stolons. I think I am too far north for Bermuda grass - we average 80 inches of snow a season but we don't get too cold. Pulling the grass I get a clump with runners going out of it, and I've carefully pulled continuous runners out almost a meter long with multiple tufts of grass attached to them.
Is there a reasonable barrier edging that I could put down to stop stolon encroachment so once I kill off what is inside my veg garden side I don't have to repeat my work?
Options I can think of:
- I could trench in aluminum trim-coil or flashing which would be seamless but offer a metal edge hazard just above ground level.
- Round top plastic edging. But, I'm not sure if this is deep enough and I have never seen it stay in place.
- Any wooden edging will rot out in a few years.
- Any paver block concrete type would offer an open seam roughly every 16 inches.
This is largely a repeat of this
this thread