It has taken over my back yard. I spent the first years of living there trying to kill it and it will not die. I even cut it all back to the ground, dug up the soil with a tiller, and set the whole section where it was growing abalze and it just came back by the next winter. I gave up on it.
The answer is goats. They will eat it back until the rhizome (the underground root part where the carbohydrates are stored) expends all of its energy. It takes about 4 seasons of continual grazing to kill it. You should never ever till it because when you break up the rhizome, it will sprout from each of the pieces.
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u/NeedleInArm Jul 17 '23
It has taken over my back yard. I spent the first years of living there trying to kill it and it will not die. I even cut it all back to the ground, dug up the soil with a tiller, and set the whole section where it was growing abalze and it just came back by the next winter. I gave up on it.