Kikuyu

Tobacco farmers in Zimbabwe report that putting a vetiver hedge around their fields keeps out creeping-grass weeds, such as kikuyu and couch. ❋ Unknown (1996)

It has also been reported that tobacco farmers have found that hedges of vetiver around their fields keep out creeping grass weeds, such as kikuyu and couch. ❋ Unknown (1993)

Firstly during the emergency in Kenya loads of kikuyu men were rounded up and accused of being Mau Mau based on accusations by guards who were collaboratoring with the british. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Then in late 2002 Poza de las Diablas on the south coast of Isabela Island where flamingo and diablo fish breed, was declared a Ramsar Site of International Importance; and a management plan is being prepared to help limit overfishing and invasion by kikuyu grass. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Blackberry Rubus adenotrichis is rampant, elephant grass Pennistum purpureum, African kikuyu grass Pennisetum clandestinum and other grasses and shrubs have taken over many areas of the inhabited islands, especially Santa Cruz. ❋ Unknown (2009)

He pulled his opening drive well left of the fairway bunker and had to punch out from the gnarly kikuyu primary rough. ❋ Unknown (2008)

Or sink into a deep green stand of kikuyu grass from which there is no alternative but a hard chop back toward the fairway with a wedge. ❋ Unknown (2008)

I stood near Michael Allen, a 49-year-old American who got here through open qualifying, practice short pitches from the devilish, deep, broad-leafed kikuyu rough around the 18th green, and the ball never seemed to come out of the stuff the same way twice. ❋ Unknown (2008)

That particular church as you failed to mention was burnt down by Kalenjin youth in the Rift Valley which has been party to ethnic clashes over land and resources for 20 years between the encroaching kikuyu and the Nandi and Kalenjin both christians. ❋ Unknown (2008)

The large greens are planted with bent grass, fairways with kikuyu, first cut with cynodon then flowing into the natural veldt grasses of the surrounds. ❋ Unknown (2004)

Watson tried to hit a gentle draw into the par-3 17th with a 2-iron, but it found the thick kikuyu rough about 8 feet behind the green. ❋ Unknown (2000)

“If we would have hired a good mechanic instead of a half baked kikuyu driver, he would have checked the oil and never burned out that bearing in the truck.” ❋ Ernest Hemingway (2001)

There was bed after bed of cannas and arum lilies; great riots of bougainvillaea; thick kikuyu-grass lawns. ❋ Smith, Alexander McCall, 1948- (2000)

The embankment had supposedly been stabilized with a covering of kikuyu grass. ❋ Unknown (1993)

Within 2 months residual kikuyu grass had begun to cover and stabilize the soil between the vetiver lines. ❋ Unknown (1993)

For them, soil had to be imported and the area resodded with kikuyu grass. ❋ Unknown (1993)

Vetiver grows so densely that, at least according to various informants, it can block the spread of weeds, including some of the world's worst creeping grasses: couch, star, kikuyu, and Bermuda. ❋ Unknown (1993)

That house is [cheap], but the Kikuyu Gothic could [scare] all your [blessings] away. ❋ Inthecutt (2021)