How Do You Stop Carpeting Plants Going Where You Don'T Want Them?

[Gurglar]

So my hairgrass has sent out runners all over the place and its going to places I don't want it like inbetween my glosso and i'm wondering how people stop this from happening?

Do people just pull up the runners carefully and cut them off or do you do something else?

 

[lljdma06]

I remove the runners and cut them off. Or place them somewhere else.

 

[Teephphah]

So my hairgrass has sent out runners all over the place and its going to places I don't want it like inbetween my glosso and i'm wondering how people stop this from happening?

Do people just pull up the runners carefully and cut them off or do you do something else?

I've heard of people cutting up plastic milk jugs (or something similar) into strips approximately the same depth as their substrate and using those strips to form something like subterrainian fences to keep the spread of their plants only to the areas they designate. I've been meaning to try this with some corkscrew vals that have gone all "invaisive species" on me.

As I say, I haven't tried it, but in my imagination it works great!

 

[Gurglar]

That sounds like a good idea was thinking of something like that because the hairgrass is growing into my patch of glosso and when you pull up the runners it pulls up the glosso aswell cause its underneath it and glosso is a pain in the #16##### to plant.