Posted on 08/11/2024 9:09:39 AM PDT by TermLimits4All
Plant a lot of trees.
My lawn is a mix of different fescues and what not after multiple owners and lawn patching.
Looks like my next-door neighbor’s yard. I use Trugreen lawn service and have no weeds except at a few edges.
I use the Scot’s four applications per year plan and augment with a spray as needed with Tenacity (Amazon) that kills all but the lawn. Works for me.
I hate it. One summer nearly ended up in the psych wing trying to get rid of it.
Looks like Virginia buttonweed.
Hard to deal with.
https://extension.uga.edu/publications/detail.html?number=B1397
The trick is to add the right stuff at the right time. Get four soil samples and tske them to your county extension office and find out the ph and what minerals are needed for good bermuda growth. Trim and thin your trees. Bermuda needs five hours of sun.
Put pre-emergent on it in February and fertilize+pre-emergent in early April. It is really late April to mid may before bermuda is growing well. A buddy of mine adds a very high nitrogen fertilizer at that time to encourage very thick growth. Keep it cot to encourage side fill/in growth. Mid summer spray for noxious weeds and put down grub killer. Overseed with perinnel rye on labor day for winter green. Cut low in October and see if you can get winter green rye up.
Repeat.
21 posted on 8/11/2024, 11:38:18 AM by alternatives?
Followed by a perennial gardens effort. Just end lawn grass presentations in your landscaping. Stop spending your free time cutting and fussing over grass. Get your life back. The whole grass lawn thing is strange and not good for you or the environment. It's largely an American behavior.
Switch to a hybrid of Kentucky Blue Grass and Northern California Sinsemilla.
TX here with crabgrass/bermuda front yard. For three years I have treated the crabgrass spring and fall and it multiplies. Best I have been told, wait till winter when Bermuda is dormant. Spray crabgrass with product containing 2-4-D.
Going to try that for last resort; if it doesn’t work I will have crabgrass lawn.
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Image takes care of nutsedge pretty well.
You will have to pry the fescue from my cold dead fingers....
I’ll have to try Image.
We have a combo of clover, Bermuda and fescue. By the first of July the Bermuda and Fescue have choked the clover out. I was walking around looking for some clover to pick for my chicken yesterday and there’s not enough left to fool with. Henrietta is out of luck. 😏
With 20 acres, if it’s green it’s good with me. I will us a broad leaf/weed killer sometimes around the house. My problem are loblolly pines that grow like weeds on my place. They won’t die even being bush hogged.
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