Location: Reading Mass/Newburyport/merrimack river
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My neighbor has a lawn like a golf coarse... he spends alot of time and money... land scapers twice a week.. a few years back he had all the top soil removed and taken away... he added new top soil and seeded.. it rained for a week...it was the only time my lawn was "better " than his...he then had the whole thing sodded.... he had a well drilled so he could water any time he wants... and when the dogs crap on it.. he goes ballistic... my crab grass doesn't care.. it's free fertizer...I'd rather spend my time on my water garden and rose beds...those of you that fight the good fight to have that perfect lawn... I am jealous... I just don't have the ambition( or time to spend) to do what is needed to keep it nice...
I use ACCLAIM, an herbicide, on the crabgrass and it works fine. Thats not all it kills weed-wise either. The big problem is that, except for two neighbors, no one in the neighborhood does much about crabgrass, so it seeds over and over again in there yards, and the seeds go blowin' in the wind. I just got some ACCLAIM in the mail two days ago from Florida, because my last pint is gone. The pint lasted four years plus. 3/4 of an ounze to the gallon in my two-gallon sprayer and I almost lasted the entire property. I'll wait four or five days to see what I didn't get the first application, and then do the rest, which should only take a one-gallon application to finish up. The problem with weeds is that there are more than one generation of seeds generally in your ground, like grubs. Spray or spread your fert with weed killer mixed in, and unless it is timed perfectly it could be a waste of time. My thinking is that use the fert whether its 1,2,3, or 4, or anonother brand and then back that up with weed-b-gone concentrate in a sprayer. But ACCLAIM is the only thing I have found that kills crabgrass. Someone here told me about a product called Drive which you mix weith an oil spray so it adheres to what yourtrying to kill but I could never find it. Drive doesn't turn anything yellow nearby the weed your trying to kill, for a time, where ACCLAIM will if you hit the weed twice. And if you want a really green lawn use Vigaro super green, thats all it does is turn your grass a deep green color, looks awesome.
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Worst weed ever is bent grass. Fine if you want a putting green
and cut it at 1/4 inch, but mixed in with bluegrass and fescues it
just chokes out everything and has that light green color on top
and brown around bottom. Spreads by rhisomes so even if you cut it
out and one root remains it takes over again.
A few years ago I hit it with 2 applications of Roundup then waited,
power raked and re-seeded. Bluegrass took over in the spring but
2 years later the bent came back stronger than ever.
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