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    Well not strictly in my garden but I did some "guerrilla" gardening today by watering 4 of the councils newly planted trees across the street form my house. Previous "guerrilla gardening" I have done is, plant some succulents between my fence and the neighbour's driveway, as next door is a rental so the tenants just let the weeds grow in that strip. I've also regularly watered the council tree next door and treated in for some sort of fungus and increased the size of it's anti-ringbarking aggie pipe from 50mm to 100mm as that became too small.
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    Although not today, but a couple of weeks ago I took the brush cutter to the house on the corner and took care of her overgrown front (heavily slopped) lawn. She was grateful and my dog won’t get grass seeds up his nose when we walk past anymore. Except it needs doing again... maybe next week
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    Glad I am not the only one , the house on bottom side of us has a strip of land about 1.5m's wide between there retaining wall & the dividing fence , they can't see it as there house is a good 3 to 3.5 m below. They have no plants at all( not even grass) growing there but what they do have is Cobbler Pegs the seeds get into out garden. They have a mower man who comes in to do there grass & hedges but he won't do this strip because the only access is to climb around the end of the fence on top of there high retaining wall , so if I don't want there Cobbler Pegs it is up to me to go in & wiper snip & spray weed killer. I have spoken to them a number of times about the problem even suggesting a good Aust Native ground cover to plant but nothing happens. This block of land has always been a problem , for the 1st 25 years we have lived here the block was vacant the owners lived O/S , so I mowed it , it was a good place to park my extra vehicles until one day I received a letter from them asking me to not park on there land. Fair enough but I sent them a letter telling them I expected them to mow the block every month , the block soon went on the market & was sold. We have lived here for about 40 years & I am still looking after this block.

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    Quote Originally Posted by 1950landy View Post
    Glad I am not the only one , the house on bottom side of us has a strip of land about 1.5m's wide between there retaining wall & the dividing fence , they can't see it as there house is a good 3 to 3.5 m below. They have no plants at all( not even grass) growing there but what they do have is Cobbler Pegs the seeds get into out garden. They have a mower man who comes in to do there grass & hedges but he won't do this strip because the only access is to climb around the end of the fence on top of there high retaining wall , so if I don't want there Cobbler Pegs it is up to me to go in & wiper snip & spray weed killer. I have spoken to them a number of times about the problem even suggesting a good Aust Native ground cover to plant but nothing happens. This block of land has always been a problem , for the 1st 25 years we have lived here the block was vacant the owners lived O/S , so I mowed it , it was a good place to park my extra vehicles until one day I received a letter from them asking me to not park on there land. Fair enough but I sent them a letter telling them I expected them to mow the block every month , the block soon went on the market & was sold. We have lived here for about 40 years & I am still looking after this block.
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    Quote Originally Posted by 1950landy View Post
    Glad I am not the only one , the house on bottom side of us has a strip of land about 1.5m's wide between there retaining wall & the dividing fence , they can't see it as there house is a good 3 to 3.5 m below. They have no plants at all( not even grass) growing there but what they do have is Cobbler Pegs the seeds get into out garden. They have a mower man who comes in to do there grass & hedges but he won't do this strip because the only access is to climb around the end of the fence on top of there high retaining wall , so if I don't want there Cobbler Pegs it is up to me to go in & wiper snip & spray weed killer. I have spoken to them a number of times about the problem even suggesting a good Aust Native ground cover to plant but nothing happens. This block of land has always been a problem , for the 1st 25 years we have lived here the block was vacant the owners lived O/S , so I mowed it , it was a good place to park my extra vehicles until one day I received a letter from them asking me to not park on there land. Fair enough but I sent them a letter telling them I expected them to mow the block every month , the block soon went on the market & was sold. We have lived here for about 40 years & I am still looking after this block.
    You could spray out the coblers pegs by applying a selective herbicide as soon as the shoots are 4" to 6" high after mowing. The grass would be left untouched.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Don 130 View Post
    You could spray out the coblers pegs by applying a selective herbicide as soon as the shoots are 4" to 6" high after mowing. The grass would be left untouched.
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    Thanks for that I will see if I can get some. I have tried Brunnings, Zero & Roundup , Brunnings being the worst dose not seam to make any difference. There is no grass at all in the strip so don't have to worry about killing the grass.

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    Quote Originally Posted by 1950landy View Post
    Thanks for that I will see if I can get some. I have tried Brunnings, Zero & Roundup , Brunnings being the worst dose not seam to make any difference. There is no grass at all in the strip so don't have to worry about killing the grass.
    In that case you could use a pre emergent herbicide that will prevent the weed seedlings coming up at all for up to 9 months. First you would use Glyphosate to kill what is already there. Spraying Glyphosate on a hot day with no chance of rain for least 3 hours is best.
    Make sure you read all the instructions and measure the concentrate accurately. Use the recommended PPE.
    A pre emergent needs to dry on the soil, but then get carried into the soil by rain soon after application.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Don 130 View Post
    In that case you could use a pre emergent herbicide that will prevent the weed seedlings coming up at all for up to 9 months. First you would use Glyphosate to kill what is already there. Spraying Glyphosate on a hot day with no chance of rain for least 3 hours is best.
    Make sure you read all the instructions and measure the concentrate accurately. Use the recommended PPE.
    A pre emergent needs to dry on the soil, but then get carried into the soil by rain soon after application.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Don 130 View Post
    You could spray out the coblers pegs by applying a selective herbicide as soon as the shoots are 4" to 6" high after mowing. The grass would be left untouched.
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    I'll second Cutlass M.
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