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Why not progressively mow the same patch of ground until you can mow it dead flat. I used my old SPFC utility so low down it was digging the soil and it destroyed the grass and left a blanket of mulch on the ground.

How about a few 2l bottles of homebrand white vinegar - about 60c per litre from memory.

Good universal thing - use it to kill weeds, strip rust off metal

and put it on fish and chips

Don't forget that well known remedy for bluebottle welts.
Nuclear waste should work wonders or cause a frightening mutation.

Would have to drink a lot of water to do the whole lawn haha

The nuclear waste would probably turn the glowing report of the 600's work into a literal one - that and the fact that Kikuyu would probably thrive on the plutonium

G'day everyone, this thread is a classic! LOL!

Seriously I once bought a twin pack of Valvoline fuel injector cleaner, I used one in the car and I didn't think it made any difference at all. I actually think it made the car run even worse, so anyway the second bottle ended up going around a pole out on the nature strip where I swear the grass is on steroids! It would always grow like buggery around that darn pole!

After a dose of Valvoline injector cleaner, I didn't have to cut or trim that darn grass from around that pole for ages..lol

About 6 months ago all the nature strip was dug up and re-filled by the people installing the NBN network, so there is not much grass at all just dirt everywhere now. They threw some lawn seeds everywhere but because there isn't much rain at all now with the drought the nature strip just looks like it's been nuked! lol. Oh well saves me cutting it for a very long time now...lol

Cheers!

Last year I was slashing down some thick winter weeds down the back corner of the yard. too tight to get a mower in there, so I use a couple of line trimmers. These weeds are thick, and up to knee height. I am slashing and slashing (with 2.4mm line the trimmer would bog, but 1.3mm it would chop through at ground level easily) and get up near the fence.

Big dead spot of grass, didn't think anymore of it. Turns out, a week prior, the off contents of a rather large jar of home made pickled onions were disposed of down there as they would stink out the bin otherwise.

I hit them at full throttle - all up the fence, in my face (glasses on) and all over me.


The other good one was how I once (in about 2010) somehow acquired (no idea where it came from, I know I didn't buy it) about 3-4 cartons of a carbonated juice called LOL. Apparently it was owned by Heinz.
Anyway, I tasted 1 tin, and it was one of the most disgusting drinks I have ever tasted (although I tried Carlton Zero last week and didn't care for that much either).

So i had probably 50 cans of this stuff that was about to go out of date. So we grabbed a big shovel and played cricket with the bloody things. Tins were quite tough, and they often ended up pretty agitated by the time they popped.
This stuff ended up all over the lawn. Now the odd thing was, I was chucking all the buggered tins in piles - all the black coloured cans (black current from memory) went in one pile, and the silvers went in another.

The grass under one pile shot up over the next few weeks, the other died. The only thing I can put it down to is the amount of food acid in the different flavours.

I guess the best we can get is the Glyphosate 540 that should turn it into bare earth for some time. The stuff you get from Bunnings is Glyphosate 360 so the 540 should wipe that kikuyu off the face of the earth