I have some of it showing up. I pull alot of out by the roots. I have one field with a seep in it, and its hard to keep the same kind of grass from growing in it. Its like something you see on a pond edge. I hit it with some gly and that seemed to kill it, but I had to come back with a second application.

I have another field that has stuff growing in it that I basically sprayed with gly and killed everything in it. These long hot dry summers don't help.

Roundup doesnt seem to phase it

You probably just stunted the nut grass and killed everything else....giving the nut grass the advantage

I think the connection is that they are very similar plants and when you grow chufas you are creating ideal conditions for the nutgrass. You are fertilizing it and probably spraying herbicides that kill it's competition. That let's the nutgrass grow a solid mass in some places and then it's probably impossible to get rid of it.

The best way to deal with it is to move the patch around and not grow more than a couple of years in one place. I have some fields that I will never be able to eradicate it from; I just try to control it.

Need to get you about 10 wild pigs and they will eat the nut grass and the ground will be ready to plant as soon as they are finished.

May need to drag the section harrow over it to level it out a bit.

For a Food Plot you can just ignore it. I have it everywhere on my place and can't get rid of it. Plant your plots around the end of October and you won't have much problem with it. It does not grow from what I can tell from late fall through early spring. I disk and plant my plots in late October and NEVER have an issue with Nutgrass.

In row crops plant earlier in the Spring and it won't grow significantly if it is shaded out. I'm planting end of March and it seems the Nutgrass doesn't get going until end of April/May and by that time my crops are up and shading it out. That's not scientific but I spent thousands to try to get rid of it and couldn't and I don't see much if any difference in yields. I cultivate my rows in June with a high speed cultivator and don't have much issues.

That's what is working for me. If I wanted to act like it was a huge deal I certainly could but the numbers are what they are.... I can spray my profit all over the field trying to get rid of it in hurry.


Otherwise that crap is the devil my biggest problem is if I don't do the above and the Nutgrass comes up good... the hogs will get in the field and that's the end of my crop. I did not plant one field this year and the Nutgrass come out strong and it looks like someone's been shooting mortar rounds into it it's one big hole after another where the hogs have got in it.

Darn shame chufas are not as persistent as nutgrass

Probably would be if their tubers grew as deep as nutgrass tubers grow. Nutgrass will have tubers 5-6 inches under the ground. All the chufa i ever grew was right on top of the ground, within the top inch, i guess