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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.





TOPICS: Agriculture; Chit/Chat; Gardening; Outdoors
KEYWORDS: weed; yard
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To: fso301

Roundup is a great product, but not for a lawn weed. Need something that will kill the weeds and not the grass. Walmart, K-Mart have numerous products that will do that.


81 posted on 05/22/2011 9:54:51 PM PDT by Freedom56v2 ("If you think healthcare is expensive now, wait till it is free"--PJ O'rourke)
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To: Krankor

The one growing up the lamp post is a clematis.
No plow. 8)


82 posted on 05/22/2011 9:55:47 PM PDT by freejohn
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To: freejohn

No plow? What’s that to the right- just above the pink flowers and leaning against the tree?


83 posted on 05/22/2011 10:01:13 PM PDT by Krankor (And he's oh, so good, And he's oh, so fine, And he's oh, so healthy, In his body and his mind)
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To: freejohn

I’m not 100% sure but it looks like lespedesa to me.

http://www.grreatideas.com/a-mg/weed-id.html#Lespedesa


84 posted on 05/22/2011 10:05:21 PM PDT by anchorclankor (From the main part of Missouri)
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To: Krankor

Boy you have a good eye!

That is my neighbors antique plow that is being used as a garden ornament.


85 posted on 05/22/2011 10:10:44 PM PDT by freejohn
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To: fso301

I buy the concentrate by the gallon and it last about 2 years. I used some today


86 posted on 05/22/2011 10:17:23 PM PDT by tubebender (Help! I've fallen, and I can't reach my wine!)
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To: GailA
It is kudzu. I feel sorry for anyone plagued by it.


87 posted on 05/22/2011 11:41:46 PM PDT by Daffynition ("Don't just live your life, but witness it also.")
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To: GailA

Sedgehammer is a product that will killl nutsedge- but it has to be put on before the summer solstice or all you are doing is giving it a drink. That is per the UNL extension people. There are little thingies that look like very mini potato tulbules on the roots, which stay behind if you pull mature nutsedge- and every one of those mini thingies start a new plant.


88 posted on 05/23/2011 1:29:24 AM PDT by handmade
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To: Bernard Marx

uhhh if you Round-Up what is onh hyour side of the fence, being a systemic, it will hit the root system on the other side of the fence.

Being careful- what you hit with a systemic will kill other things if and where roots of more than one plant touch.


89 posted on 05/23/2011 1:35:13 AM PDT by handmade
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To: Riley

Is it really a grape vine? There is another vine - for the moment the name escapes me- looks for all the world like a grape vine- but is not. It is downright aggressive.


90 posted on 05/23/2011 1:38:16 AM PDT by handmade
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To: freejohn
black medic

It's the flowers that had me confused....

Doesn't matter,the Ortho will kill it.

http://weeds.cropsci.illinois.edu/images/Black%20medic/pages/black%20medic1.htm

http://www.google.com/search?q=Black+Medic

91 posted on 05/23/2011 3:25:11 AM PDT by DaveTesla (You can fool some of the people some of the time......)
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To: freejohn
Hard for me to tell from the picture --- you need a close-up of the leaves and/or a fairly detailed indication of its growth habit. if those leaves areheart-shaped, with a little crease downthe biddle, I'd guess yellow woodsorrel.

http://tinyurl.com/yellow-woodsorrel A broadleaf herbicide if you want to kill everything but your grass. RoundUp of you want to kill everything....

Or you could try goats.

92 posted on 05/23/2011 5:17:09 AM PDT by Mrs. Don-o (Some learn by reading. Some, by seeing. The rest pee on the third rail and find out for themselves)
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To: freejohn

Oops. I meant “a little crease down the middle.”


93 posted on 05/23/2011 5:18:46 AM PDT by Mrs. Don-o (Qwerty, ergo typo.)
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To: Red_Devil 232

ARe we gonna have another flame war?....................


94 posted on 05/23/2011 5:36:32 AM PDT by Red Badger (Jesus said there is no marriage in Heaven. That's why they call it Heaven............)
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To: 240B
RoundUp kills everything/anything.

Not true, unfortunately. Roundup will not kill Nutsedge...........it'll kill the aboveground part, but not the nut below ground, so it'll come back very quickly.............

95 posted on 05/23/2011 5:39:20 AM PDT by Red Badger (Jesus said there is no marriage in Heaven. That's why they call it Heaven............)
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To: freejohn

Looks like Black Medic, to me.........

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_medic


96 posted on 05/23/2011 5:40:34 AM PDT by Red Badger (Jesus said there is no marriage in Heaven. That's why they call it Heaven............)
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To: dog breath

Black Medic can grow half as tall as you. It can be used as fodder.........


97 posted on 05/23/2011 5:43:27 AM PDT by Red Badger (Jesus said there is no marriage in Heaven. That's why they call it Heaven............)
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To: Racehorse

How are your store bought pepper seed plants doing?


98 posted on 05/23/2011 6:24:16 AM PDT by painter (No wonder democrats don't mind taxes.THEY DON'T PAY THEM !)
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To: painter
Rather nicely, painter. I gave a little update late in the Weekly Gardening Thread.

"My Big Red HEB Bell Pepper project has produced LARGE green peppers. They're six inches long and three inches wide. Getting impatient for them to start to turn colors. For those who don't know or don't remember, My Big RED HEB Peppers are an unknown variety I purchased in our grocery store. I just picked the biggest, reddest one in the bin and planted the seeds. Camelots in the same patch are doing equally well but not quite so large. The Camelots we pick and eat green."

Temptation is to pick one for a little taste test. I look them over every day hoping for a color change and stay alert for disease and pests. I guess the real test might come in the Fall when I plant the second generation seeds.

Thanks for asking!

99 posted on 05/23/2011 7:11:15 AM PDT by Racehorse (Always preach the Gospel . . . . Use words if necessary.)
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To: Red Badger

I did not realize black medic could grow that big, thank you for the information. I knew there was a tall and a short growing variety of what I call hop clover. Many of these clover shaped plants blur into each other in my mind, I should renew my study of them since many of them are edible plants. Identifying plants is a handy survival skill besides being useful for property management.


100 posted on 05/23/2011 7:35:34 AM PDT by dog breath
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