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The Healing Properties of Couch Grass

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Couch grass like so many other harmful weeds are now a most troublesome pest in a cultivated land causing farmer a loss of thousands of dollars annually by taking care of fields and crowding valuable crops. But this can be wisely used in many ways. Description of the plant : This quite coarse grass produces several stems 1 to 3 feet high from a long creeping jointed rootstock and bears densely flowered spike like heads resembling those of rye or beardless wheat. The Stems are round soft thickened at the joints, and flat trajectory from five to seven leaves. These have a long slit envelope and are tough on the upper surface. The heads or spikes are closing, compressed with two rows of spike let on a wavy and flatly vertical. Couch grass is one of the most troublesome weeds to eliminate on account of the long jointed rootstock each link of which is capable of producing a new plant. Every bit of the rootstock must, therefore, be removed from the ground or killed in order to destroy i...