Damn weeds

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ROYJ24

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Oct 3, 2007
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I have a weed infested lawn? How can I get rid of them? Putting down new sod is too expensive. I was thinking of some weed & feed products.
Has anyone used this or know about it? :-/
 
Can I get that at box stores?
 
Depending on how much lawn you are talking about, i would just rent a tiller and carve up to a few inches below the roots of anything that lives now. Then rake out all the grass/weeds. Get yourself some good seed, like Jonathan Green, and follow the instructions. I think the Black Beauty is an awesome seed - dark green foliage, does not grow too fast and and germinates quickly. You cannot just weed and feed your way to a perfect lawn. If you are not talking about that many weeds - maybe you are just talking about a good de-thatching and then seeding and fertilizing. Maybe you need a bit of weed and feed too. Jona Green has an organic weedcontrol fertilizer too.

http://www.jonathangreen.com/
 
Just get the hose end sprayer of 2-4 d. it works good. Any brand will work.
 
Why do you care?
The whole grass lawn obsession is strange; work like the devil to generate a lawn that has to be mowed every week....
The weeds are winning the competition with the grass. You can kill the current weeds with poison, but unless you change the lawn management, they will come back.
Better to plant some perennials or shrubs or garden patches.
 
I don't care much for the weeds myself. I redid my yard in 2006. Disk it up leveled it and reseeded it. I was glad when the clover started coming up in it. It smells so much better with the clover growing.

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April 23 2006 just got done planting the grass in the yard It was all dirt. Today June 30th I am trying to figure out how to mow it. The bare spots are where I got carried away killing dandelions with roundup. I lightly dusted it with fertilizer when I planted it and hit it harder after it was up a inch or so. I had to water the heck out of it. But I was surprised how fast and thick it came up. I did seed it a lot heavier that recommended.

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I never did care to put sod down. Those joints take forever to tighten up and its never as smooth as planting. Also it raises the yard. I want the water to drain away from the house. And have the lawn lower than the driveway and sidewalk do the water runs off of it and not on to it!

Billy
 
My plan is to weed -n- feed with diesel. That way the whole lawn will be a nice shade of brown. No mowing and no weeds.
 
ROYJ24 said:
I have a weed infested lawn? How can I get rid of them? Putting down new sod is too expensive. I was thinking of some weed & feed products.
Has anyone used this or know about it? :-/

Check the product to see which type grass it is safe to use on. I killed a bunch of Bermuda that was thriving in a area of clay a few years back when treating cetipede for weeds.
 
Jags said:
My plan is to weed -n- feed with diesel. That way the whole lawn will be a nice shade of brown. No mowing and no weeds.
Does regular gas work? Got a lite?
 
ROYJ24 said:
Jags said:
My plan is to weed -n- feed with diesel. That way the whole lawn will be a nice shade of brown. No mowing and no weeds.
Does regular gas work? Got a lite?

Shhhh....don't tell anyone.....but years ago, I would load up a gallon or two in a hand sprayer to go around trees, posts, etc. Kills it dead, but really doesn't last that long. It starts to regrow pretty fast. I find that roundup (the farmer version, not box store version) is the real deal now (for full vegetation kills)
 
ApproximateLEE said:
Amine 2 4 D will kill the broadleaf and not the grass.
How soon afterwards can I fertilize & seed? Sorry for all the ?s.
 
ROYJ24 said:
ApproximateLEE said:
Amine 2 4 D will kill the broadleaf and not the grass.
How soon afterwards can I fertilize & seed? Sorry for all the ?s.

soon as the weed control drys about an hour....
 
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