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Grass on Flower bed advice

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  • 28-05-2020 2:30pm
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    themacdaddy
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    Hi all,

    I am extremely new to gardening and know very little about it to be honest.

    I have a flower bed with some nice flowers growing (planted by someone else) but in certain parts there is grass growing all around it. Is there a certain weedkiller that would target the grass or a certain method I could use kill off that grass and leave the plant intact?

    I have attached some pictures. Appreciate any advice you can give.
    Thanks

    Gard 1.jpg
    Gard 2.jpg


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    dePeatrick
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    Pull what you can without disturbing the flowers, cut the rest to about an inch of the ground and use a paintbrush to paint on roundup to the cut grass, be careful, easy hit a flower plant but if you do can be cured by rapidly applying water to same plant.

    One thing to watch for, roundup does not like working during a drought, watering 4 hours afterwards will be needed. Good luck with it and don't be hard on yourself if you make mistakes.

    Apologies, I had not seen the pics...I would say painting roundup carefully onto the blades should do it, that type of infestation of grass is very difficult to deal with, I have one similar patch and I just pull as much as I can and tbh...ignore the rest.


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