Does any one know where I can buy quack grass seed? It is not illegal to plant it in Illinois.

-- BROOM MAKER (elmjem@aeroinc.net), March 05, 2000

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Are you serious? Do you have a neighbor you really, truly hate? That stuff is nasty. The roots will grow through potatoes. Very charming. Much like crab grass. Low on the ground, nothing eats it, coarse, just nasty. Come on, if you've found a use for this stuff, spill it. Gerbil

-- Gerbil (ima_gerbil@hotmail.com), March 06, 2000.

I agree! You can come dig all you want here. I despise and abhor the stuff. Even my animals won't eat it after a while.

-- R. (thor610@yahoo.com), March 06, 2000.

I want the quack grass to grow in the lanes in our Christmas Trees. The horses cut up the trails when the ground is wet. We intend to turn the land into a hard wood forest as we are getting to old to shear the trees. Regular "farm" crops will not be grown there. Animals will eat quack grass. In fact they will thrive on it. Our sheep, goats, and horses will seek out the young quack grass. It is drought resistant and will provide pasture when other pasture feed wilts. I'm still looking for seed.

-- BROOM MAKER (elmjem@aeroinc.net), March 06, 2000.

I am fairly sure that quack grass does'nt set seed- if it did it would be even more of a curse than it already is. Our experiences with having it grow under our trees have not been pretty. Quack grass has some kind of a hormone or a chemical in the roots that inhibits the growth of other plants, enabling it to take over and monopolize the area and spread.It will choke out just about anything, except maybe thistles! Our goats eat the quack grass, and ducks will eat it if you pour their feed into a clump of it, geese would eat it, but the goats save it for after the tastier goodies in the pasture have been eaten. Anyhow, quack grass spreads by the roots which travel underground at amazing rate, and if you rototill them every tiny root will make a new plant. Surely you can find something else to plant instead, but if you really want some of it you can get some from a gardener who has it(they might even pay you to take it!), and plant some roots here and there an inch or two deep all through the area. In a year or two till the clumps and you should have it forever.

-- Rebekah (daniel1@transport.com), March 06, 2000.

i would also like to find seed we have fought it for years in our crops and have beeten it BUT IN MY CALFING PASTURE I HAVE A FEW STRIPS THAT WHEN IT GETS MUDDY THE QUACKGRASS IS THE ONLY THING THAT HOLDS THE MUD DOWN I WOULD GREATY APPRECIATE IT IF I COULD FIND SEED TO PLANT IN THE REST OF THAT PASTURE THANKS.

-- steve jaton (svjaton@itctel.com), April 24, 2001.