Everything They Told You About Weeds Is a Lie

Added: 2026-06-03

[00:00:00]Typically in permaculture, we'll say, "Well, you don't have a cricket problem.

[00:00:03]You got a lack of turkey problem. You don't have a Chinese silver grass problem. You got a lack of water buffalo problem." Well, if I can't run water buffalo, then I need to think about what this thing likes [music] and what it does doesn't like.

[00:00:15]>> [snorts] >> Well, if you look at the areas where it grows, it's always going to be a place that's A, like William said a moment ago, nutrient deficient and highly compacted and very very bacterially dominated soil.

[00:00:27]So, the places you won't find it. You'll never find it in a in a forest. Why?

[00:00:32]Because a forest is a highly fungal environment.

[00:00:35]So, where won't you Where other places you won't find it? This property was absolutely infested with this stuff.

[00:00:42]So, we found out by dumb luck at first that what this thing didn't like was a fungal environment. So, we started chopping it down. Everybody says there's nothing you can do about it. Don't even worry about it. Don't even try. You can't do anything about it. It's just a lost cause. [music] So, we put a food forest in one of the worst spots out here. To this day, there might be one little piece of silver grass coming up.