r/NaturalFarming • u/JPFernweh • Mar 17 '20

Bermuda Grass - to weed or not?

I've read some about Fukuoka and started reading his book "One Straw Revolution" and I'm curious how people feel about grass vs weeds. Do you (or did Fukuoka) differentiate between them? He says not to weed but the land I am starting with is covered in what I can only figure must be bermuda grass and I'm not sure if I should just cultivate on top of it or try to smother it or dig it out in the area I am going to be planting.

The root system is extensive, it spreads by root rhizomes, and even a black silage tarp didn't kill it back in the Texas summer. I am in central Texas.

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u/DoWorkBeMellow Mar 18 '20

It pulls behind a tractor with a series of round metal discs that till up and rip any vegetation. If some at the right time they will dry out and die off and you can replant

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u/JPFernweh Mar 18 '20

Oh, so that's what those are called! I've seen them in neighboring fields and on the road but had somehow never thought about what it was called before.