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The weeds are winning...
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WhiffySpark
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Pay a small company to do a 5-6 step program. Trugreen is hit or miss
coleman10
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We will see withing a few weeks. I have a patch the has nutsedge. 24-D won't touch that stuff. They need something better.
At the moment the lawn is almost dormant from a 2 week drought.
I've found Image to be pretty effective against nutsedge. Just don't overspray because everything else will die, too.
atch
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It's been 15 years since I moved from the affluent 'burbs to my own little slice of countryside, but when I lived in town I had Truegreen do my yard. Eventually I had them back off. In the wet springtime I was mowing 3 times a week and there was not a weed to be found. Yard looked like a green carpet. Maybe they've gone downhill since then, but I was happy with them.I've found TruGreen to be nothing but thieves in a truck spraying water on my lawn. After a few months with them I cancelled. Waste of money.
Clint Eastwood said it best: "dyin' aint much of a livin'"...Remember to wear PPE. I went to an auction this summer for an estate of someone that sprayed for a living. He died from not being cautious and wearing PPE.
LS6 Tommy
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Ditto on the Roundup for Spurge.
CNG, you find Zoysa hard to grow? Around here it pushes out every other type of grass...
Tommy
CNG, you find Zoysa hard to grow? Around here it pushes out every other type of grass...
Tommy
^ ^ My particular Zoysia is fine blade and does grow slow and very late to get going. To give you an idea, I've only mowed a few times and we're at Aug 1st.
However, neighbor has wide-blade Zoysia and it's invading and taking over my fine-blade. His wide-blade zoysia is aggressive and hardy but grows quite tall and requires frequent mowing (which I don't like). My fine-blade stays very short. It can even be mowed on lowest mower setting without shocking the grass.
I'd really want a cross hybrid between the two . . . aggressive roots/runners like the wide-blade, but short height and fine blade.
Oh well, I'll have nice fine-blade short in front yard, and mix of wide/fine in side yard next to neighbor.
However, neighbor has wide-blade Zoysia and it's invading and taking over my fine-blade. His wide-blade zoysia is aggressive and hardy but grows quite tall and requires frequent mowing (which I don't like). My fine-blade stays very short. It can even be mowed on lowest mower setting without shocking the grass.
I'd really want a cross hybrid between the two . . . aggressive roots/runners like the wide-blade, but short height and fine blade.
Oh well, I'll have nice fine-blade short in front yard, and mix of wide/fine in side yard next to neighbor.