Lawn Care................Not my Favorite Topic

Seems this year when my feet hit the ground in the morning 5-6 tasks are already lined out for the day. Constantly doing repairs, improvements, or required Horticultural care.

This was my yard this spring. Out of nowhere this Silver Dollar weed among others just took over our backyard.

For me the organic stuff is out the window. I need Results! So I keep this herbicide around for killing stickers before they form seeds. It is called Speedzone. Some years we have a lot of sticker plants like this year some years we don't. I'm sure the 8-9 inches of snow was a shock to our lawn (carpet grass) but this is insane. Here is a link so you can learn about it. I mix 5 ounces to 15 gallons of water, add some dish soap, & a blue dye marker so I know where I sprayed. Speedzone really works and doesn't kill or even damage most grasses.

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SpeedZone Southern Herbicide EW - 2.5 Gallon

Take a look at the dying Silver Dollar after 1 application and you can see the infestation.

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I plan to Blog the lawn restoration progress. If you don't see anymore posts my lawn is too bad to post. I have 10#'s of Carpet Grass seeds (coated) on the way to over seed after the weeds are very dead. This stuff is really choking my grass out.

I just mow my grass and don’t worry about it… :Rofl I’m pretty slack in that department. I’m heading out to the field tomorrow though and will be spraying all the poison ivy hopefully without killing good trees and such.

If you have St. Augustine grass you can use Atrazine as a broad spectrum herbicide. You can also use Celsius in the same manner for different types of grass in clouding St. Aug. Try and put down some 4-4-2 Milorganite as a slow release fertilizer. Some weeds may come up with it, but at this point, you need to get your root system, strengthened up. This may be a small multi year project and you’ll need to put down a pre-emergent around late January to help control the weeds for next year if possible all these herbicide and fertilizers need to be down before the daytime temperature stays in the high 80s and nighttime temperatures in the mid 70s. Cutting grass releases a hormone inside the root system of the grass. Cut it low one time before it gets really hot and then let the grass grow 2 to 3 inches and cut just the top third off of the blade to retain the most water.


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If I get rid of the native plants ( weeds) I wouldn't have anything left but dirt

:hesaid that sounds like me and my yard. :Rofl

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Originally Posted by DockShootinJack

If I get rid of the native plants ( weeds) I wouldn't have anything left but dirt

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Man, we all mow weeds. I draw the line with stickers & silver dollar. Even clover is usually allowed but Speedzone kills the clover too. We are forecast to get a good rain Saturday & Sunday so looking to scalp the yard tomorrow and plant Carpet Grass. Carpet grass is the indigenous grass for this region.

In that case, why not plant CARPET that looks like GRASS :Rofl
No more mowing!!! rotfl