Response to Quack grass seed

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.

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