Sustainable Alternatives To Herbicide for Weed Control: Using Cover Crops To Combat Panicum repens and Panicum maximum In Lowland, Eastern Hawaii

Sustainable Alternatives To Herbicide for Weed Control: Using Cover Crops To Combat Panicum repens and Panicum maximum In Lowland, Eastern Hawaii

Summary

Two African grasses, Wainaku grass and Guinea grass, are intractable weeds in Hawaii because of their fibrous rhizomes. The common method of control is repeated application of herbicide. Alternatively, this producer proposes to use one initial application of herbicide to clear a field and thereafter to use leguminous cover crops as rotation crops and living mulches to control these perennial grasses.