War on Twitch

Twitch, also known as Couch Grass, Quack grass, and plenty of other unmentionable names, is a stoloniferous grass, Elymus repens. We've got a magnificent crop - and a particularly vigorous strain.  It romps away, and before you know it, it's winding its way into and through whichever area you thought was already cleared.  While digging, almost every spadefull has to be broken apart and the succulent, wiry and brittle underground stems teased out from the clod - to which they are hanging on with great tenacity. 

This large bucket of twitch is sitting in the middle of the area that it was cleared from, an area about 1.2 metres x 2 metres:

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