Burning Pompous Grass ??

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anyone here ever try burning off their Pompous grass? I google the subject but got very little useful info, I have over dozen of the plants and have grew very large and become an eyesore, I usually been cutting them back with a chainsaw each year in early spring but haven't done so in 2 years, Now they are all dried up and looking half dead..... been think of setting them a-fire :confused: although don't want to finish killing them ,, just need to get them back manageable again, what You Folks think :cool:
 
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anyone here ever try burning off their Pompous grass? I google the subject but got very little useful info, I have over dozen of the plants and have grew very large and become an eyesore, I usually been cutting them back with a chainsaw each year in early spring but haven't done so in 2 years, Now they are all dried up and looking half dead..... been think of setting them a-fire :confused: although don't want to finish killing them ,, just need to get them back manageable again, what You Folks think :cool:

Stihl gas powered hedge trimmer. Works great for trimming stuff back. Kinda like a hand held sickle mower.:D

One thought about reducing the size might be to trim down the root ball after trimming the dead follage. Seems like it would be a lot of work though.
 
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Lot's of experience with Pampas grass...first off, when the base of the plant reaches about 20" in diameter, take a spade and divide it by half. Second, after the killing frost in the fall, I cut it down to around 4-8" high. Third, around the first or second week of March, light it up. Been doing it for years and it works really well. Another tip, take a piece of bailing string and tie an eye in one end of it, use it as a cinch around the base of the plant in the fall when cutting back. If pulled good and tight, it's almost like cutting through a solid piece of wood. I use manual, 2 handled hedge trimmers or sometimes the weed whacker with the brush blade to cut back. I do the dividing after the first frost in fall when I have them cut back...makes it easier to get to. Hope this helps.
 
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Another tip, take a piece of bailing string and tie an eye in one end of it, use it as a cinch around the base of the plant in the fall when cutting back. If pulled good and tight, it's almost like cutting through a solid piece of wood.

This is what I do, bundle it tight and cut it off with the chainsaw.
 
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Pompous Grass

As opposed to Humble Grass? :D

sorry couldn't resist...
 
   / Burning Pompous Grass ??
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As opposed to Humble Grass? :D

sorry couldn't resist...

:D well the spell checker could leave well enough alone :D

but now that you mention it.. some of the things I found about pompas grass;) is offer by burning it sometimes in Jan. to give good prosper throughout the year, I guess that somewhat makes it humble:laughing:
 
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I'd burn it.

And I'd be ready to dowse it too. That stuff can really go.

Cortaderia selloana - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

If you want it to survive and get back to it's original self, then I suggest a controlled burn: Soak the core with water, and be ready to put the fire out once you get it to the base. I read somwehere that this stuff usually burns in the wild and survives happily. :)

Here... read the bottom post on this thread.
http://www.gardenbanter.co.uk/united-kingdom/110732-advice-sought-pruning-pampas-grass.html
 

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