How to kill off grass?

barneyrub

We're redoing our garden and putting in paving area etc and need to kill of the grass. What's the best way of doing it?
We also have a dog/cat and kids...is weed killer safe to use around them?

tia

muletide

Place tarp over it for a few weeks and then rake off

bpmurray

While there are questions to be asked about long-term Roundup exposure, in general it's considered quite safe. And it's certainly effective. Check that you don't have special grass that's immune to Roundup, though.

lk67

barneyrub wrote: »

We're redoing our garden and putting in paving area etc and need to kill of the grass. What's the best way of doing it?
We also have a dog/cat and kids...is weed killer safe to use around them?

tia

A glyphosate weedkiller is what would work best and I'm sure once it's dried in it is safe.

But read instructions and decide yourself!

There is also a range of weedkillers from a company called Neudorff which claim to be very safe.

Good garden centres stock both and will advise you.

Edit: You could take the sod off either, which you might have to do to a decent depth if putting in filling for paving anyway.

barneyrub

We will be lifting it but want to reuse for filling in and levelling off areas so were told to kill the grass first.

Thanks for all the replies. Will head to garden store to look at round up

Norfolk Enchants_

bpmurray wrote: »

While there are questions to be asked about long-term Roundup exposure, in general it's considered quite safe. And it's certainly effective. Check that you don't have special grass that's immune to Roundup, though.

Grass that's immune to glyphosate? please do share?.

jungleman

I know you'll probably only be using it the once, but just be aware that glyphosphate was declared "a probably human carcinogen" by the International Agency for Research on Cancer a couple of weeks ago.

PeteFalk78

Norfolk Enchants_ wrote: »

Grass that's immune to glyphosate? please do share?.

Variants of sorghum halepense (Johnson Grass) and rye grass.

Calahonda52

barneyrub wrote: »

We will be lifting it but want to reuse for filling in and levelling off areas so were told to kill the grass first.

Thanks for all the replies. Will head to garden store to look at round up

Killing off the grass won't make the sod much easier to work with for filling etc unless u give it time to rot. In addition it will settle a bit as the grass decays

If you remove the top 2 inches of sod or so and can turn it upside down then grass will die

Calahonda52

Calahonda52 wrote: »

Killing off the grass won't make the sod much easier to work with for filling etc unless u give it time to rot. In addition it will settle a bit as the grass decays

If you remove the top 2 inches of sod or so and can turn it upside down then grass will die

There are regulations coming in in November for the use of chemicals. You should look at solutions like this before going down the route of spraying chemicals