I’m a gardening pro – stop trying to kill weeds with sugar, it’s the ‘dumbest thing I’ve ever heard’, it kills grass
WITH the warmer weather on the horizon, it won’t be long before we’re all spending more time in our gardens.
But if your outdoor haven is covered in weeds and you’re searching for a quick and easily solution, then you may just want to take note.
That’s because a gardening pro, known only as the Grumpy Gardener, has revealed the commonly raved about household item that he claims you should avoid at all costs.
Speaking on the podcast ‘Ask Grumpy’, he begins by explaining how he saw an unnamed article about how to get rid of a certain type of weed called nutgrass (also known as nutsedge) in your lawn.
“You’ve probably seen this in your own garden,” he says.
“It has these long tall leaves and forms an arch as it goes up, and then it gets these big stems in the middle with these yellow burrs in the middle that’ll stick you,” he says.
“It’s very evasive and can take over your whole lawn.”
He goes on to say that there are products out there that are specifically designed to tackle this.
This is one of the dumbest things I’ve ever heard
Grumpy Gardener
However, the gardening pro notes: “But apparently a website doesn’t like using chemicals that work, so what they do is scurry around the house and look for whatever they can find that doesn’t work, and that’s what they tell you to use.”
In disbelief, he then shares what they advise gardeners put on their nutgrass….
“They want you to go out and buy a truck load of 5lb bags of granulated sugar and then they want you to pour sugar all over your lawn, maybe an inch deep layer…and this will kill the nutgrass, right?”
Explaining how it supposedly works, he continues: “What they say is the sugar will bump up all of the microbial action in the soil and those little hungry microbes will be so busy eating all the sugar and the nitrogen that comes out, they’ll leave no nitrogen and no food whatsoever for the nutgrass and it’ll die.”
But according to the gardening whizz, that raises a whole load of of questions.
“If all this microbial action takes all of the nitrogen out of the soil and thereby kills the nutgrass, won’t it kill your grass, too?” he asks.
He then points out that the article even claims that you might need to re-seed afterwards.
But the Grumpy Gardener says that’s not the worst of it…
“Just imagine your lawn now looks like it’s snowed and covered in white sugar – what creatures might be attracted to your yard?” he questions.
“Every ant, leatherjacket, cockroach, mouse, rabbit, all the deer, all the bunnies, raccoons, possums, they’re all going to be coming for a feast.”
He concludes: “So if you have a sweet tooth and you want to try this out, take my advice…stick to the stuff that’s labelled for nutgrass.
“This is one of the dumbest things I’ve ever heard…!”
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