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Any Lawn and Garden Folks Out There? (vanity/help)
Posted on 05/22/2011 6:34:34 PM PDT by freejohn
Am I the first 'dummy' to ever post something SO off topic and foreign to FReerepublic?
There just aren't ANY forums (Regardless of topic) where folks respond as quickly as here!
I have this stuff that just 'exploded' and is taking over my lawn and have No idea what it is called or What will do away with it!?
Some answers that I have received from elsewhere are: shotweed, bittercress and clover.
Sure hope there's a weed expert around?
Thanks Everyone.
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TOPICS: Agriculture; Chit/Chat; Gardening; Outdoors
KEYWORDS: weed; yard
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Well, I see that There Is a Gardening forum here .. Somewhere. I just can't seem to find it?
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posted on
05/22/2011 6:34:36 PM PDT
by
freejohn
To: freejohn
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posted on
05/22/2011 6:37:05 PM PDT
by
bigheadfred
(I wish I was an Oscar Meyer wiener but Lindsay Graham beat me to it.)
To: freejohn
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posted on
05/22/2011 6:37:16 PM PDT
by
bigheadfred
(I wish I was an Oscar Meyer wiener but Lindsay Graham beat me to it.)
To: freejohn
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posted on
05/22/2011 6:38:04 PM PDT
by
mnehring
To: freejohn
General climate or location might help the searcher. They look like shade area weeds from the pic.
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posted on
05/22/2011 6:39:51 PM PDT
by
allmost
To: freejohn
well, it’s green & looks like clover, but I’m no expert
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posted on
05/22/2011 6:40:38 PM PDT
by
nuconvert
( Khomeini promised change too // Hail, Chairman O)
To: freejohn
I'd call it chickweed and have a 50/50 chance of being right.
It's certainly a broadleaf weed that you can kill with weedbgone or any other pesticide labeled for broadleaf weeds.
Depending on what kind of place this is, you could put down mulch to stop it, put down grass sod (be sure you get enough sun - this might be a reason you have this stuff instead of grass if it's a lawn) or plant some sort of ground cover. DON'T plant english ivy, though. Ajuga or Japanese spurge work well in the shade.
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posted on
05/22/2011 6:40:47 PM PDT
by
OKSooner
(Obama confessed "his muslim faith" on the George Stephanopolous show on September 7th, 2008.)
To: freejohn
>>>What will do away with it!?
Roundup. Then start over next year...
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posted on
05/22/2011 6:41:47 PM PDT
by
Keith in Iowa
(FR Class of 1998 | TV News is an oxymoron. | MSNBC = Moonbats Spouting Nothing But Crap.)
To: freejohn
RoundUp kills everything/anything.
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posted on
05/22/2011 6:41:50 PM PDT
by
240B
(he is doing everything he said he wouldn't and not doing what he said he would)
To: freejohn
I don’t know what it is, but what will do away with it is a broadleaf herbicide. Kills the broadleaf, leaves the grass alone.
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posted on
05/22/2011 6:42:00 PM PDT
by
HerrBlucher
("It is terrible to contemplate how few politicians are hanged." G.K. Chesterton)
To: freejohn
Pleasant (relatively) weeds BTW. The pics look more like a bush.
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posted on
05/22/2011 6:42:01 PM PDT
by
allmost
To: freejohn
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posted on
05/22/2011 6:47:06 PM PDT
by
MileHi
( "It's coming down to patriots vs the politicians." - ovrtaxt)
To: freejohn
Does it have yellow flowers? Take a (google) look at trifolium campestre. Just guessing, of course. If that’s what it is, trust me, you don’t want it.
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posted on
05/22/2011 6:47:54 PM PDT
by
IM2MAD
To: freejohn; Red_Devil 232
Perhaps Red Devil can help?
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posted on
05/22/2011 6:51:14 PM PDT
by
bigheadfred
(I wish I was an Oscar Meyer wiener but Lindsay Graham beat me to it.)
To: Red_Devil 232
Ping to the Weekly Garden Thread for help?
My guess is to keep the lawn well mowed and seed or sod with the recommended turf grass for your area. Should eventually choke it out.
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posted on
05/22/2011 6:53:54 PM PDT
by
Racehorse
(Always preach the Gospel . . . . Use words if necessary.)
To: freejohn
Looks like chickweed.
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posted on
05/22/2011 6:54:28 PM PDT
by
DaveTesla
(You can fool some of the people some of the time......)
To: allmost
I’m in Virginia and I do have a pretty thick and green lawn but this stuff is growing in it anyway.
It is also pretty sunny where it is growing.
Not a bush either .. just a thick and fast spreading .. ‘something’!?
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posted on
05/22/2011 6:54:48 PM PDT
by
freejohn
To: bigheadfred
Thanks bigheadfred
One question though?
Why are the Garden threads being posted in News/Activism?
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posted on
05/22/2011 6:57:32 PM PDT
by
freejohn
To: freejohn
because it is newsworthy how active our gardening freepers are...:P
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posted on
05/22/2011 6:59:55 PM PDT
by
stefanbatory
(Insert witty tagline here)
To: freejohn
It almost looks like phlox. Are they individually seeded shoots or part of an entire plant(s)? The pics makes it hard to tell.
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posted on
05/22/2011 7:00:45 PM PDT
by
allmost
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