How to Remove a Large Sedge

Sedge plants look much like tall grass clumped together. Small sedge plants can be loosened at the base with a garden hand spade and pulled up by hand. However, large sedge plants are more like shrubs but lack the physical tree trunk. This makes removal a bit more challenging because you cannot simply cut into the tree to fell the plantlike shrub. Removing a large sedge requires a bit different approach, but still one that doesn't require professional assistance.

Gloves
Pickax
Shovel
Tow strap
Truck
Top soil
Grass seed or sod

Instructions

- 1
  Put on gloves. Excavate the grass and topsoil around the base of the large sedge using a pickax and shovel. Keep excavating until the sedge roots become visible.
- 2
  Wrap a tow strap tightly around the base of the large sedge, cinching it as tightly as possible with the claps.
- 3
  Attach the other end of the tow strap to the tow-hook on a truck. Slowly begin to drive away, making the tow strap taut.
- 4
  Drive the truck slowly farther away once the tow strap is taut, pulling the large sedge and its root system out of the ground.
- 5
  Backfill the hole left in the ground by the large sedge with a shovel. Fill the hole all the way up to ground level with topsoil thereafter.
- 6
  Spread grass seed over the topsoil or lay down sod to cover the excavated area and regrow grass to blend with the rest of the lawn on your property.

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