SRS, does the vinegar stop the Bermuda grass? Or just send it back underground to reemerge even deeper into your garden beds? I was reading an article in OG last night about needing to go only two inches deep to get up the grass roots when desodding a new bed. "Ha!" sez I. "I'll have to get my Bermuda grass to read this so it will know to stop sending runners down a foot deep." Bermuda grass read the article and then laughed in my face! Humph!

I have found your technique of layering newspaper or (even better) cardboard and organic materials, to work really well, but that ol'B grass ALWAYS finds a way up through it as soon as that first layer of paper/cardboard begins to decompose. Any tricks to pass along?

Allan--I had visions of romantic bougainvilla twining around your balcony rail---then remembered you said shady. Orchids maybe?

Janie