Oh how right you are!! I was just thinking this morning—after having pulled some resurrected bermuda from my garden beds. That stuff is the scourge of the earth.

Summer

“Cooking it may not work and your plastic trash bags left out in the yard will start to break down leaving toxic plastic in the area. Better to pile it up somewhere (away from compost and/or water and let it get a good freeze in winter assuming you get hard freezes (above-ground) where you live. That will kill the rhizomes. That little hand cultivator you showed wouldn’t be much help imho. I’ve used the ““deep spader”“: http://www.groworganic.com/item_GDO500_Deep_Spader.html
for getting down in there and breaking up the soil to as deep as the rhizomes get. Then you need to carefully break up all the clumps and remove all the pieces of rhizome and stolon (above and below-ground ““runners”“)... probably a good smaller fork or garden rake would work. I had another tool that was great for that but it’s nothing sold by PVFS and I’m not even sure what it was called but it was great for breaking up the clumps that my clay-heavy soil broke into when using the deep spader.

Try not to bury your topsoil while doing all of this but you will need to get down in there a ways to successfully remove bermuda grass. That stuff is a pain!”