How to Kill Ilalang with Ilalang

HOW TO KILL ILALANG WITH ILALANG

Ilalang (Indonesian Languages) or imperata cylindrical is family of grasses . It’s tall and big, It can extend to 1 meters or more. And, if it grow, Ilalang will dominate the entire field. Another plant won’t ever live if Ilalang is around. You can’t ever use it again for planting. People when encounter such situation usually said hopeless sentence “Ah... Our village have become ilalang field”.

When cutted, dried, or burned, young or the bud of Ilalang will grow much more from the ash-covered-earth that works for as natural fertilizer. Rice, corn, peanut, potatoes, etc, will soon died because of the grow speed of an ilalang. The root of Ilalang in the soil won’t get burned, and this root has a lot of bud which soon grow to dominate the entire field.

Today, a lot of medicine or chemicals was invented to destroy Ilalang. Usually used before changing Ilalang’s field to a rubber garden. They use it by showering all of Ilalang with the medicine. And it will destroy Ilalang entirely, along with the leaves and the roots in the earth.

The problems is, we do not know the side effect of the chemical to environment, earth, animals and human being. May be not in the short time, but in the long time?

I will introduce you how to kill ilalang by ilalang. From the nature to the nature. First, we must know the weakness of ilalang. Ilalang cannot grow if there is no sun light, straight shine to ilalang. We can see this condition around of us, under the big and leafy trees, great jungles, etc. The second is, the root of ilalang tree is rather sweet because it have some sugar.

The first time we cut the ilalang and cover the leaves to the trunk of the ilalang tree, then water from the rain deprave or destroy the leaf and the root of ilalang will soon deteriorated because the bacteria attracted to sugar. So, the bud of ilalang cannot live and grow.

After the soil free from ilalang, plant natural rubber or another tree like mangos, rambutan, etc. Soon the plant will grows bigger, and the new ilalang cannot grows under it. Because it’s blocked the sunlight. The rainy season will be the best time to start it. Easy right? Good luck!!